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How Retrofits Can Reduce the Cost of Healthcare
Of all the challenges facing the nation’s healthcare system, one of the most pervasive—yet solvable—is its incredible energy consumption.
5 ways buildings have reached a ‘GREEN’ tipping point
As the U.S. green building movement enters its third decade, the market has reached a tipping point.
Reinventing Buildings
From the neighborhood corner pharmacy to the skyscraper taking up an entire city block, office and retail buildings use a lot of energy. The big question is how to transform the energy use in these buildings to efficiency and renewables.
Confessions of a Solar Decathlon Architecture Juror
Architects pour their souls into their art, and are more interested in a conversation about ideas than a medal. I’ve had my doubts that competition is a good way to generate wonderful designs, but frankly the 2013 Solar Decathlon, in which I was fortunate enough to be a juror, has generated some wonderful designs and important conversations.
Energy Innovation Can Once Again Show The Way Forward
Forty years ago this week the U.S. and much of Europe learned tough lessons about our addiction to fossil fuels. Our dependence on their dirty energy made us vulnerable.