Video of Vertical City Premieres in New York

Source: treehugger.com Published: March 7, 2016 © Vertical City Half a century ago the architect Paolo Soleri promoted the idea of an Arcology, “a highly integrated and compact three-dimensional urban form that is the opposite of urban sprawl with its inherently...

Sacramento Has the Most Net-Zero Buildings of Any City in America

Source: greentechmedia.com Published: January 13, 2016 Sacramento Has the Most Net-Zero Buildings of Any City in America Katherine Tweed California is home to more than half of all the net-zero buildings in the U.S., according to a new survey from the Net-Zero Energy...

Retrofits Are Key to an Energy Efficient Building Stock

Source:  forbes.com Published: April 13, 2016 Liberty Tower Lobby By Benjamin Freas Even if all new buildings from today on were built to be net zero energy, it would take several decades for the change to have an appreciable effect on overall building energy...

How to Make Cities More Energy Efficient

Source: news.mit.edu Published: April 20, 2016 In this image of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the colors represent which buildings could be retrofitted to obtain different percentages of total energy savings. Converting just red and orange buildings would achieve 40...

6 Ways to Fund Energy Efficiency Retrofits

Source: greenbiz.com Published: November 1, 2011 Shutterstock. By David Metcalfe Energy efficiency is one of the most popular first steps to take when addressing corporate energy footprints, for the simple reason that small investments can produce big results. Not...

This Cement Alternative Absorbs CO2 Like A Sponge

Source: geek.com Published: November 14, 2014 Cement has been called the foundation of modern civilization, the stuff of highways, bridges, sidewalks and buildings of all sizes. But its production comes with a huge carbon footprint. Environmental chemist David Stone...

Will Buildings of the Future Be Cloaked in Algae?

Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: May 26, 2015 EcoLogicStudio’s 430-square-foot gazebo, called the Urban Algae Folly, is on display at the Expo 2015 world’s fair in Milan. (ecoLogicStudio) By Emily Matchar Built by a London architecture firm, a new...