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Environment
LEED for the Outdoors? Landscapes Get Their Own Green Certification Standards
The Sustainable Sites Initiative, which just certified its first three projects, hopes to do for outdoor spaces what LEED did for buildings.
Design
Designing Buildings That Battle Obesity
A new handbook produced by New York's design and construction department sets out guidelines for creating buildings that encourage activity.
Cities
Getting It Right: What Is Brad Pitt Really Doing for New Orleans?
When Brad Pitt showed up to help fix New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward, it raised hope—and eyebrows. Is his high-design, low-income green housing...
Environment
Frank Gehry Comes Around to Building Green
A few months after criticizing what he saw as the superficiality of LEED certification, Frank Gehry, arguably America’s preeminent architect, has...
Lifestyle
Is LEED Missing Something?
The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED rating system is the most popular green building certification system in the world. In order to...
Design
Commissioning: Perhaps the Best Way to Get Efficient Buildings
You've heard of LEED, and maybe Energy Star and Passive House. But over at the Yale Environment 360 blog, Richard Conniff argues that a process...
Environment
Washington: The Greenest State in the Nation
The Greenopia website is a great guide for everything green. The website recently released its greenest states rankings and Washington state came...
Business
Exactly What Brooklyn Doesn't Need: a LEED Shopping Mall
A few months ago, the city of New York announced it would funnel 20 million Stimulus dollars into the construction of a shopping mall in downtown...
Business
Facebook's New Coal-Powered Data Center
Facebook, which has officially become the second-biggest website in the U.S., just announced its plans to open an enormous data center in...
Design
The GOOD 100: Ending LEED’s Monopoly
Follow or Get out of the Way: The household name in green construction needs to innovate in order to keep up with the...
