Sustainable Architecture
LEED as a starting point for sustainability
Once you’ve reached your certification target on LEED you may start asking yourself, now what? That is the question facing the owners and operators of over one billion square feet of commercial space that have obtained LEED status under the [...]
Greener education : Oberlin College
We have seen a few universities going green, like Harvard and Yale. I just discovered a new college, in Ohio, which is also advancing a green way of functioning. I won’t get tired of insisting how important education is in [...]
Seattle: carbon neutral by 2030?
Seattle has been working hard to be more environmentally friendly for years now. It is one of America’s more advanced cities in terms of sustainability. Last week, the City Council announced that Seattle aims at becoming carbon neutral by 2030. [...]
Topia Inn, a green vision come true
Caryn Heilman and Nana Simopoulos have designed and built the Topia Inn, a small hotel not far from New York and Boston, that minimizes its environmental impact and introduces its guests into a green experience. From powering itself with solar [...]
Yale University works to green its campus
We have already looked at Cambridge and its green development plans. Now it’s the turn for Yale University. One of the most surprising and encouraging facts I’ve found doing some research is that Yale has developed a new building which [...]
eBay and its quest to become greener
eBay is a huge American Internet company, founded in 1995. In its site you can buy and sell products, it is an online auction and shopping website. Since 2007, and thanks to a group of environmentally concerned employees, the company [...]
First US data center powered by the wind
A small ISP (Internet Service Provider) and hosting company in Illinois has become the first data center operator to be powered entirely by wind energy. The company is called Other World Computing (OWC) and is located in Woodstock, Illinois. It [...]
A green neighborhood, in Boulder, Colorado
A neighborhood of 12 net-zero energy homes (which consume as much energy as they generate) is being built in the north of Boulder, Colorado. They are designed to meet green building standards, specifically LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) [...]
Starbucks’ Environmental Stewardship
Starbucks is one of the largest coffee companies around. It is a tremendously popular store, growing and expanding to more and more countries at an impressive rate. It’s been a few years since they’ve been working on their environmental impact. [...]
A hospital in the U.S. runs with the gases emitted by a brewery
An engine in a hospital in Wisconsin, U.S., converts the methane gas discharged by a brewery into electricity. The gas, which used to be released to the atmosphere by City Brewing Company, is now renewed by one of the Gundersen [...]
