Wow, isn't this home striking?  It's a green house and a house meant to act like a true greenhouse -- the steel-framed structure is enveloped in alternating layers of insulated transparent glass and translucent polycarbonate plates, so when the sun comes through the glass and heats up the interior,...

What's Sunday evening without a little Ty Pennington and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition?  I don't catch it every week, particularly if the Dallas Cowboys are on, but the program is a juggernaut for helping people in real need.  So we caught news that ABC was planning a green show for April 6 and w...

It's Friday, so why not take some time to enjoy a unique, green renovation.  This home used to be an old, stucco box, but you'd hardly know it just by looking.  Mr. Jeremy Levine gutted the whole place and gave the home a new lease on life.  The interior of this North Eagle Rock renovation drowns...

Looks like Chicago city planners have big ideas for a 1140 acre swathe of land in South Chicago.  The spot is former U.S. Steel land, and planners have been mulling development options for the spot since about 2000.  Now, they'd like to submit a proposal for a green development with sustainable ne...

The Galleries at Turney, although completed back in mid-2007, have been getting some good press over the last year for good reason.  First, they're ultra modern, super slick, and hard to miss.  Second, the eight homes were the first to receive LEED-H certification in the entire state of Arizona. ...

Check out this bright, contemporary renovation of an old, 1960s nursing building.  The renovation was led by the design team of Lord, Aeck & Sargent and Gould Evans Associates; they’re anticipating LEED Silver certification and did it all with a $6 M budget.  Now complete, it will be...

Last year I talked about five green building trends and most of that, generally speaking, was spot on.  This year's going to be a little tougher nut to crack, however, because things are changing every day.  After a week or two of new information, it could be that everything below will not...

Hey, Happy New Year!  It's hard to believe an entire year just flew by, but it did.  On this day last year, we identified Five Green Trends to Watch in 2008 -- actually, the trends were specifically related to green building rather than the environment in general -- and you'll probably agr...

There's so much innovation in the green building space, it's pretty hard to keep up with it all.  I mean, check out these articles below.  In the past year alone, we've discussed at least thirty-three different LEED Platinum projects -- some are done, some are under way, and some are still...

Starting earlier this month, the NY Times began publishing the blog of Lou Ureneck, chairman of the Journalism Department at Boston University.  The blog was given a name we've seen before, From the Ground Up, and will document Lou's journey building a cabin in some picturesque scenery of weste...