The second environmental assessment for what may become the nation’s largest wind farm has been released by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, along with a so-called draft finding of no new significant impact.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Environmental Center is the first building in the U.S. to get a permit to make potable water from rainwater. That is no small accomplishment. T
Promulgators of the Living Building Challenge, acknowledged as the most demanding certification program for the production of ultragreen buildings, are on a campaign to scale up the size of the projects that register for the rigorous net-zero annual energy- and water-use performance categories.
A new study by Dodge Data and Analytics, published this February in the “World Green Building Trends 2016 SmartMarket Report,” confirms that green design and construction is accelerating as an important global trend.
State transportation departments are considering using high-tech maps to measure how much fuel is saved from driving on repaved highways, thanks to a new pavement-vehicle-interaction test developed at MIT.
A Senate floor vote could come by Feb. 5 on a sweeping energy bill, which, if enacted, would be the first comprehensive energy legislation to make it through Congress since 2007.
The people claiming that our economy will collapse under the burden of efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions are the same ones who tout the free market’s infinite ability to solve technical problems.