Green Building

States are helping homeowners who want to have a more eco-friendly lifestyle by overturning homeowner association regulations that ban solar panels and wind turbines.

This segment from NPR looks at plans for the carbon-neutral Masdar City in Abu Dhabi.

This article from The Washington Post looks at what local municipalities are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A year after a tornado destroyed the city of Greensburg, Kansas, the city and its residents are bounding back in an economically and environmentally sustainable way.

A new 85-unit apartment building in Harlem shows that affordable housing and green building practices can go hand in hand.

While cities are eager to encourage businesses to go green, many government incentive programs are not designed with small businesses in mind.

While cities are focused on promoting green 'buildings', planners and landscape architects need to advocate more green city planning.

A review of the 7th annual EcoCity World Summit reveals some of the ideas and innovations the planners, architects and builders are using to create greener and more sustainable cities.

The vast majority of LEED-certified green buildings in the U.S. are located in major cities, leading some to wonder whether there might be an inherent bias in LEED's standards.

All new homes in Montgomery County, Maryland, will be required to comply with environmental and energy-efficiency standards.

England's plans to build 3 million new homes by 2020, and much emphasis has been placed on making them environmentally friendly. The push for "eco-town" draw a strong parallel to the "Garden Cities" of the past.

A New York developer is unveiling plans for a fleet of luxury homes that aim to comply with LEED environmental standards. But this article from The New York Times wonders whether that really makes the homes green.

With more and more energy-efficient homes being built and environmentally conscious industry sited in the city, Freiburg, Germany may be one of the greenest cities in the world.