GreenBuild Blog

NAIOP Study Claims Green Buildings Can’t Be Energy Efficient

Saturday, February 28, 2009

A recently released report for NAIOP, now known as the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, claims that green buildings can’t cost-effectively use even 30% less energy. There’s something quite wrong with this study.

Carbon Dioxide Regulation Inches Closer

Monday, February 23, 2009

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that EPA will soon determine that carbon dioxide emissions pose a danger to the public health or welfare and that it must regulate them under the 1990 Clean Air Act (signed by Bush 1). What follows next won’t be pretty.

Time for Frugal Green?

Sunday, February 22, 2009

With all the fuss about green jobs, green incentives and green laws, it’s easy to overlook what will put the green revolution on a firm footing: getting green done on today’s tight budgets. It’s a new era I call “Frugal Green.”

NAHB Green Homes Certification Program Shows Progress

Sunday, February 08, 2009

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) announced last week that its National Green Building Program was certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as ICC-700-2008, that 35 new affiliates had joined the program from local home building associations around the country and that the Multi-Housing Council had endorsed the program for its members. Is LEED for Homes about to be lost in the shuffle?