President-elect Barack Obama presented an optimistic future for green building in his weekly radio address, yet the current state of the economy is clearly impacting green building. While he proposes an investment into energy efficiency and infrastructure in the economic recovery plan, I wonder how the recession is currently affecting this industry. A [...]

“Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.” Ideas that come from this concept are being discussed in green building circles around the world.

Rob Watson, sometimes referred to as the “father of LEED,” addresses LEED and impacts of green building in a recently released report: the Green Building Impact Report, 2008. The report explores LEED’s impact in the United States and highlights several environmental benefits resulting from both LEED homes and commercial buildings. Some of these [...]

As part of a Planet Green TV series, Dave Gottfried explains how his home in Oakland achieved LEED Platinum status from the USGBC.
It is a very impressive undertaking and he explains most of the measures he undertook to achieve the green measures as well as some products that should be further researched.
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During a Sustainable Building Course this weekend it became evident that a real divide in the world exists of which most Americans are completely unaware. I want to share with everyone the presentation that brought this divide to reality for us here at Environmental Building Strategies. Organic Architect presented this to us, and [...]