Kent Peterson does it with off-the-self stuff, but it should be easier than this.

They really didn't have a choice, and they insulated their bodies, not their houses.

Previously titled "4 reasons why heat pumps are not going to save the planet" which was mean to heat pumps.

Shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Awards, this elegant building makes good use of wasted stone generated from a town's large stonecutting industry.

It's about time that someone did, too.

In which the City requires new buildings to go from 'solar ready' rooftops to solar actual.

Welcome to my personal dairy dilemma and the weird, convoluted thoughts that keep me up at night.

I move around a lot - between being home, at school, and now living abroad, I've lived in seven different apartments or rooms in the last five years. And I don't see myself settling down any time soon. That's why I'm

It is hard keeping up with the latest ideas in green building, but things are changing fast.

But maybe he should.

Last year before Greenbuild in Chicago, one of America's best architecture critics, Blair Kamin, wrote the introduction to Chicago for GreenSource Magazine. So I was pretty nervous when I was asked to write this year's introduction to Toronto; That is

The buildup is over; Greenbuild has opened in Toronto. I will be heading out to tweet and report from the Convention Centre for the next three days, and round up my buildup posts herein.

I am a huge fan of BuildingGreen, but have not given a lot of coverage of their Green Product of the Year Awards. They are, to put it bluntly, not sexy, like watching Eoncote Ceramic paint dry. But I have been doing our readers a disservice, as I

The point of having a booth at Greenbuild is to attract attention, and like with everything else, design matters. I immediately fell in love with the Kohler booth; In some ways it is so 2005 green, with its recycled materials

What can one say about a show that attracts 23,000 green building professionals across the border to Toronto? It could only beGreenbuild, the grand spectacle put on by theU.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). This was its tenth

The CEO of the USGBC brings it on and fights back against the Plastic People their poodles in Congress

It's going for every label from LEED to Living Building Challenge

It's the Oscars of green building products chosen by the experts, in the runup to Greenbuild.

LEED v4 is here.

It's the right thing to do in so many ways, as LivingHome, Make it Right, Cradle to Cradle and Hanley Wood build a comfy new home for the Lower Ninth

All kinds of interesting people were at Greenbuild.

It's a ritual; they pick the ten top products and I complain that they are not sexy. This year is different.

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.

There were inspiring people and some neat new things at Greenbuild, and my biggest ever Best of Show.

It's like watching paint dry.

Will NEOM be "an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization" or "a totalitarian surveillance state"?

The plyscraper era has begun as Cross Laminated Timber towers start popping up everywhere.

This micro-home is a customized, winter-proofed dwelling for two.

Though it was announced over two weeks ago, perhaps because of Exxon's backing of Synthetic Genomics, Dow Chemical's backing of Algenol Biofuels is getting a bit more play. Together they will develop a pilot-scale algae

ZH architects faced a lot of serious challenges here, and came up with innovative solutions.

Mike Eliason, an American architect working in Germany, explains.

The skin of MVRDV's new Milestone office building is very busy.

After reviewing the major religions of the world's stances on the environment, it seems pretty clear to me that there are more commonalities than differences. In the realm of metaphysics there are genuine and significant

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.

And a big part of the pitch is sustainability and comfort.

British scientists do the math and find that we come up short for cobalt, lithium and copper.

We have been saying for years that building materials should be healthy and high fiber like the food we eat, and now Perdue delivers.

Katherine Salant writes in the Washington Post:Can a big house be green? Yes, but a smaller house will always be greener because fewer resources were used in its construction and less energy is needed to heat and

It's not rocket science, it's building science, and it's all here.

Veterinarians built this sweet mini-wheelchair for a turtle with a shattered shell.

It was designed to stay cool without air conditioning, and the green roof was part of the strategy.

It also pushes the limit of what we mean by historic preservation.

Jean-Philippe Pargade designs a school where the green roof IS the building, defining its whole look and feel

We are going to need a new term that binds them all together. A lecture in 20 slides.

"Less is more" is so over; These days the mantra is "too much is never enough."

And I am going to be positive, upbeat and happy about it, really.

Really, this trend should be nipped in the bud.

Blouin Tardif Architectes do a beautiful adaptive reuse and addition in Montreal.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation shows how thinking circular could change the way we live for the better.

Finally, people are beginning to take this issue seriously.