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Sustainability rating group seeks ideas to progress its 20-year-old green building program.

Bullitt Center’s landmark rain-to-tap water system is finally flowing smoothly

The World Bank report says making infrastructure strong, more able to respond to natural disasters and regular stressors saves $4 to every $1 spent.

Public outcry over a proposed 17-ft wall and other physical barriers to prevent storm surge along the Texas coast has led the Army Corps of Engineers to switch gears.

Water recycling and other forms of reuse—such as direct potable reuse—have become mainstream enough to attract the attention of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Unless nations quickly muster the political and social will to engineer an emissions-free industrial system, the impacts of a warming planet are likely to be so great as to cause human civilization to collapse by 2050.