My bike and I are off to Boston for the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, to see eight hundred exhibitors, dozens of speakers ranging from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Van Jones and Bill McKibben, with Bill Clinton thrown in. It's huge, and every hotel room in Boston is booked.
Yet 15 years ago it might have been held in a phone booth; the green building movement was tiny and disorganized...
Next week I am off to Boston for GreenBuild, the US Green Building Council's premier event. Greenbuild International Conference and Expo was launched in 2002 as the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. This year attendees will learn about new green building products, innovative projects, the latest building research and more. The conference boasts over 100 eco friendly educational sessions, 800 exhibitors, international master speakers, practical green building workshops and green building tours in Boston November 19-21 for Greenbuild 2008.
The Three Little Pigs have nothing on these digs. Ancient technique and modern groove set these structures apart from the little hillside boxes filling our neighborhoods. There are no cookie-cutter house plans here. Just clean, green, natural buildings smoothed from dirt, straw, clay, and loads of ingenuity. No Big Bad Wolf will blow these down.
Sixty miles down a dirt road in the Alaskan Wilderness, sits a cutting-edge green building nestled in the mountains.
An educational landmark for visitors and a starting point and shelter for backcountry hikers, the LEED platinum Eielson Center in Alaska's Denali National Park sports some of the greenest features yet produced by federal funds.
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The LEED-certified Oregon Health & Science University's Center for Health & Healing
photos by trevor reichman
Sustainability incorporates lessons leaned from history in order to improve on design to avoid fatal flaws and in this case to prolong the life span of a structure as it relates to its surroundings.
For all the talk of green design and eco lifestyles, it’s odd that Australia has so few events for businesses, organisations and institutions to showcase their wares in this area. Melbourne does have its very well attended Sustainable Living Festival, where last year they also managed to hold the World’s Largest Green Drinks party. But Sydney, while having a few smaller community level green days is not quite so blessed in events that promote the bigger picture.
There is so much to learn from this Women's Health Care Centre in Burkina Faso by FARE Studio. It just won the Health Category Award at the World Architecture Festival.
It mixes local materials, simple technologies, careful siting and control of sun and wind to build an off-grid, solar powered facility....
Scenes from Malmö, Sweden -- a hidden green city gem -- Björn Söderqvist @ flickr.
Residential green building has arrived. Once the niche of innovative companies like Living Homes and Michelle Kauffman Designs, green building has begun to be embraced by traditional residential builders. In the recent McGraw Hill Report: The Green Home Builder, Navigating for Success in a Down Market, they report that 6-10% of the market this year will be green vs. 2% in 2005.
Photo: Orca Yapı Sistemleri
In Turkish, the word for a slum is gecekondu, meaning "settled overnight." A prefabricated house doesn't go up quite that quickly, but mass production can make homes--of both the conventional and ecofriendly type--available to more people at varying income levels.
photo: Casey Lessard
In case you needed any more reinforcement of the idea that one of the best way to move out of the current financial morass is by promoting and expanding the green job sector, a new report from Worldwatch Institute called Green Jobs: Working for People and the Environment outlines the scale of green jobs already out there and advocates that a “bailout for the environment” can create jobs on a global level and “help rebuild communities amidst the ashes of the current economic crisis.”
Getting a contract with a hotel chain is a pretty big deal for a TV manufacturer. And going green is also a pretty big deal for a hotel considering the push for more eco-conscious lodgings by travelers. So Philip and Starwood are probably both pretty happy signing what is thought to be the biggest “green TV” deal in history. ...
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