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Sustainable Development: Many businesses have taken steps to incorporate sustainable practices into their operations and have improved their performance, but until now, custo

Sustainable Development: Fuel cells have been well known for a long time, but until now, they have not been nearly as popular as science fiction writers always hoped. One rea

Sustainable Development: Although Ive touched on this before, increasing attention (and adoption) surrounding the green building technique known as Passive House (aka Passive

Energy & Emissions: The July issue of Sustainable Industries headlined: Energy Independence: New Investment Sparks District Energy and overall this magazine was one of t

Energy & Emissions: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The New Business Standard: Green"][/caption]Going green! That is the modus operandi for today's

Energy & Emissions: PACE - Property Assessed Clean Energy is a piece of financing model that would allow homeowners easily obtain loans for energy efficiency and renewab

Sustainable Development: Sustainable Development. What does it mean? Why do we care? Although I have some answers, I expect to develop a great many new questions and even mor

Sustainable Development: Green building is often viewed as a tool for the wealthy, but as Burkina Faso born architect Francis Kr illustrates in his construction of Dano Secon

Sustainable Development: In the wake of skyrocketing fuel prices during the 1970s oil crisis, the rise of tightly sealed, tightly insulated homes have dominated in the United

Sustainable Development: Architects have long found inspiration in art from contemporary trends to tackle, to changing theories of aesthetics, to revolutionary ideas about th

Ethical Consumption: IKEA has been boycotted by thousands of Israelis due to "blood libel" in a Swedish tabloid, by Polish Catholics for featuring same-sex couples in adv

Sustainable Development: It is a common perception that building green costs more. This is because a green building typically requires higher initial costs during the design

Sustainable Development: Before you can figure out how to make your building greener, its helpful to determine how much energy it really uses. Where are the inefficiencies? H

Sustainable Development: Non-Western voices have been, as usual, quite absent from the important conversations on the oil spill in the Gulf. So here is one perspective: that

Sustainable Development: It has been said that architecture has a mimicry complex. Dave Brown, on his blog URB, describes architects tendency to mimic not only forms and syst

Sustainable Development: Solar Botanic is a green energy company; they make fake trees that generate electricity. I cant quite decide if this is a brilliant example of biomim

Sustainable Development: Dennis Dollens is not the be all and end all of biomimicry, nor of green building design. His work is, however, a good example of the so-called "biod

Sustainable Development: There is something undeniably cool about Biomimicry as an approach to green building. Looking to natural systems and processes for inspiration for de

Sustainable Development: Sustainable development- especially reducing poverty - takes funds. Lots of them. Funds for infrastructure, medication, health clinics, and, cruciall

Sustainable Development: Roughly 8 years ago the United Nations Environment Programmes Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in part as a nod to sustainable development,