Articles tagged “Green Building”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Is Your School on the List of the 311 Greenest Colleges? By Jeff Kart IN Travel & Outdoors May 17 2011 A different kind of college guide, to campuses that are environmentally responsible. There are 311 on this new Princeton Review list. Is yours? + READ MORE

Making Conservation as Common as McDonald's By Jeff Kart IN Food & Health Apr 25 2011 McDonalds is going LEED gold in California, and exploring more green construction across the U.S. But they have a long way to go. + READ MORE

The Greenest Green Schools Around the World By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 14 2011 Sustainability is on the rise worldwide, and schools are no exception. From Bali to Brazil, green schools are on the rise, physically and academically. + READ MORE

The Connection Between Environmentalism and Heritage Activism By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Oct 13 2010 Hugging our old buildings is as important as hugging trees. + READ MORE

Ed Begley Jr. on Wind Power, Gas Grill Cooking, and More By Blythe Copeland IN Home & Garden Oct 8 2010 Living with Ed follows Ed Begley, Jr., and his wife, Rachelle, as they green their home, family, and celebrity friends. But if you've ever wondered what kind of advice they'd give the rest of us, then the Ask Ed forum is your chance to find out. + READ MORE

Mushrooms, Rice Husks, and Buckwheat - Replacements for Plastic? By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Oct 6 2010 Finally, hope for the end of styrofoam. With MycoBond, mushrooms can create renewable, compostable -- and moldable -- materials that stand in for plastic and styrofoam products. + READ MORE

The Three Most Important Words About Green Design: Make It Easy By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Sep 16 2010 We keep forgetting that if we make it hard or unpleasant to go green, then people won't. + READ MORE

LEED Buildings Make Workers Feel More Productive & Healthier By Mat McDermott IN Work & Connect Aug 16 2010 Researchers from Michigan State University have discovered an interesting side benefit from building greener buildings: Workers who occupy them not only report feeling more productive, but they also are less likely to suffer from depression, stress, or be absent from work. + READ MORE

New Lessons From Old Buildings By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Aug 5 2010 Over the last 60 years, architects and engineers forgot how to make buildings work without cheap energy. But many are learning the lessons from the past and applying them to the new. + READ MORE

Ed Begley Jr. Answers Questions about Reliable Wind Power, Solar Cooking, and More By Blythe Copeland IN Work & Connect Jul 23 2010 Living with Ed follows Ed Begley, Jr., and his wife, Rachelle, as they green their home, family, and celebrity friends. But if you've ever wondered what kind of advice they'd give the rest of us, then the Ask Ed forum is your chance to find out. + READ MORE

Women Will Save The World! Really…the Dalai Lama Says So By Aysia Wright IN Work & Connect Jun 11 2010 Women out the save the world converge to discuss, collaborate, inspire and grow green business at the Women of the Green Generation Conference on June 12, 2010. + READ MORE

A Riot Of Gorgeous, Green And Practical Sheds From USA To UK By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Jun 9 2010 There is an explosion of creativity going on in backyards across Europe and North America. + READ MORE

Energy Efficient Homes Are The Stars Of The Future By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Apr 23 2010 Are you in the market for a new home? If you are, you are not alone. Millions of new homes are built every year. How will all of the materials needed to build and sustain these new homes accommodate our dwindling and limited natural resources? + READ MORE

Readers' Choice Winners for TreeHugger's Best of Green Awards - Culture and Celebrity By Blythe Copeland IN Work & Connect Apr 9 2010 The editors chose their favorites: Now see which celebrities, events, websites, and Twitter feeds readers think deserve the title of Best of Green. + READ MORE

Readers' Choice Winners for TreeHugger's Best of Green Awards - Design & Architecture By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Apr 8 2010 When we did our Best of Green series on Design and Architecture, we asked for readers nominations and then held a Readers Choice vote. In the process we learned of new products and new ideas and new people to write about. It was an education. + READ MORE

Free Parking is Actually Pretty Expensive By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Tech & Transport Apr 1 2010 My town has free parking all along Main Street. It's the kind of thing visitors always remark on: "No meters!!" And we smugly say, "Nope, not here!" and pull up right in front of the nearest restaurant or antique store. Yep, life seemed pretty sweet... until I realized that the abundance of free parking meant one thing: I. Drive. Everywhere. + READ MORE

Wine Box Shelving and 20 Other Projects To Make From Wooden Wine Boxes By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Mar 23 2010 When you choose to live a more sustainable life, you take a pledge to keep and use items until they can't be used any more. Wine boxes or wine crates made of wood are often used for shipping wine and then discarded. + READ MORE

Building a Better Sunblock By Care2.com IN Fashion & Beauty Mar 17 2010 How annoying is it when sunblock runs into your eyes -- the stinging, the tearing, the blurry vision -- why can n't it just stay in place?With more than 11 million members, Care2 is the largest online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare. + READ MORE

Staying Warm in the Winter Without Heating Your House: It Can Be Done (If You Really Want To Do It) By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Feb 4 2010 Whatever the reasons, the attitudes of people who live in cold homes are similar. They mention their enthusiasm for the environment is what fuels their prudent use of energy, making their choice both ethically, and environmentally sound reason. + READ MORE

6,000 Plastic Bottles + Some Dedicated Villagers = New Schoolhouse in Guatemala By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 27 2010 You'd never know it just from looking, but the new bright orange schoolhouse in Granados, Guatemala has walls built with used plastic bottles -- and so much other plastic waste that the team who built it had to go to neighboring villages to collect waste because they used up all the trash in their own. + READ MORE