SPG Solar, Inc., The Gatorade Company, a division of PepsiCo (PEP), and Salt River Project (SRP) Earthwise Solar announce the largest solar energy initiative in Arizona at the Gatorade manufacturing and distribution facility in Tolleson, Ariz. NFL Star, Arizona Cardinals Quarterback Matt Leinart also joined Arizona government officials and representatives in making the announcement.
The photovoltaic [...]
Carpenter Beach Construction of Purcellville has joined the U.S. Green Building Council.
The U.S. Green Building Council works to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, to provide an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy and prosperous environment aimed to improve quality of life.
Carpenter Beach Construction is a full-service construction company specializing in [...]
Al Gore, the environmental activist stung by criticism over his home’s energy efficiency, says renovations are nearly complete to make it a model “green” home.
“This plan has been in the works for a long time,” the former vice president said Friday. “The only thing that has changed is that we’re more public about it because [...]
As her family’s new Albemarle County home was being built over the past two years, retired U.S. Air Force Capt. Jennifer Cui sought to incorporate as many environmentally friendly design elements as possible.
Along with her husband and two young children, Cui decided the custom-built house in Earlysville would include bamboo flooring harvested from responsibly managed [...]
Round Rock has become known for it’s technological advances, but it is also about to be a leader in “green†sensitivity as well. In May, Designated Tree Partners led by Don Dungan and Kang Lee will begin building an environmentally friendly office space, in an effort to become the city’s first complex to [...]
Green building as a cause has united disparate parties from environmental groups to big business to policymakers, but one key industry has struggled to react to the change in public sentiment.
The major home builders, who account for 80 percent of all home-building activity in the nation, face a unique challenge in implementing green building on [...]
Not only is the Goldman Sachs building at 30 Hudson St. in Jersey City the tallest in the state. It is also distinguished by its design and use of wood products and energy-saving measures that help protect and sustain the environment.
That helps make the financial giant a leader in building construction and in corporate [...]
One of Washington’s earliest proponents of green building has received the state’s highest environmental award from the Washington Department of Ecology.
Dale Anderson, a principal at Tacoma’s BCRA Design, received the Environmental Excellence Award during this morning’s meeting of the Tacoma/Olympia branch of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council.
The award recognizes individuals, businesses and organizations that [...]
GridPoint, Inc.â„¢, a provider of intelligent energy management (IEM) products, today announced at the 2007 International Builders’ Show that the award-winning GridPoint Connectâ„¢ is featured in the only two residences in the United States to receive the definitive credential in the green building industry — a platinum score from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership [...]
In the age of environmental awareness, greening your home is the next frontier. The question is how do you green your house and what are the benefits? The answer is, it is easier than you think. Greening your home is affordable, good for the environment, increases its value, lowers your utility bills and makes [...]
For more than 50 seating products, Krug has obtained Greenguard Certification from the Greenguard Environmental Institute. Insuring air quality standards for low emitting products, the seal recognizes the furniture manufacturer’s task, executive, guest, and lounge/soft seating lines.
To obtain the certification, which helps minimize exposure to the chemical emissions often released from interior furnishings and manufacturing [...]
This may be the year when environmentally focused architecture gets serious, driven by global climate change. Even smog-swaddled China is jumping on the eco-bandwagon.
Several U.S. cities — including San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Austin — now require use of guidelines developed by the U.S. Green Building Council for public projects. (Called LEED, the guidelines encourage [...]