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As the Earth continues to warm, passive designs for natural ventilation and heating are no longer enough in many areas. To escape extreme temperatures in either direction, effective air conditioning and warming...

News and promotions around the topics of sustainability, energy consumption, waste, water shortages, plastic and other environmental causes can become overwhelming in a sea of headlines and expectations. A new platform called...

The Danforth Campus at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri has just reached a major sustainable building milestone. This year, five separate buildings on the campus achieved LEED Platinum certifications, making it...

As the final leaves drop from the trees and the temperatures continue to plummet, you’ve likely already prepped the woodpile and dug out your winter wear...

Stéphane Malka has designed a clever way of optimizing the energy efficiency of older urban structures while working within the restrictions of Parisian building codes...

Nest Labs—makers of arguably the smartest thermostat on the planet—just added a new feature to the host of tools that help save customers money. The Nest thermostat already ‘learns’ the behavior patterns of a household...

The transformation of the Lawrence Public Library has been a success. Within just a few months of the library’s reopening in 2014, user visits increased 55% over the previous year and attendees to the youth program shot...

The transformation of the Lawrence Public Library has been a success. Within just a few months of the library’s reopening in 2014, user visits increased 55% over the previous year and attendees to the youth program shot...

Axiom House is an automated net-zero house that can be built in just a few months. Missouri-based Acre Designs are planning to build a prototype which would be available for tours and function as a living lab for home technology...

Axiom House is an automated net-zero house that can be built in just a few months. Missouri-based Acre Designs are planning to build a prototype which would be available for tours and function as a living lab for home technology...

Emerging Objects, frontrunners in the 3D printing industry, has developed a 3D printed ceramic “Cool Brick” that uses nothing but water to cool homes in hot, dry climates...

"brighter and more uniform" with greater color accuracy turned back on with the "flick of a switch" does not need the 20 minute warm up period that metal halides need, so in the event of a repeat of the blackout that occurred...

Resources are dwindling, prices are rising, and energy efficiency has never been more important. Commercial buildings have long been designed with conservation in mind: Taiwan's national stadium is covered almost entirely...

Given the chance, building a green home seems like a no-brainer. While green homes may cost three to five-percent more than conventional buildings to construct, that investment pays for itself in the long run in 30 to 50-percent...

ASMO is the first mobile phone charger in the world that does not consume standby power. Every year, energy waste from the world's 6.8 billion mobile phones costs us the equivalent of power produced by two nuclear plants....