How we build our cities really matters. We are currently building the equivalent of New York City every month to accommodate the world’s growing population, and we’ll be doing so for the next 40 years ...

There are a lot of different paths you can take to get to a net-zero home. Everything from passive homes to earthships to modular and factory built houses. You can retrofit an existing building or you ...

Buildings are comparable to transportation in the amount of carbon added to the atmosphere, and the two categories far outweigh any other in terms of emissions. On Tuesday, the Avon Town Council took ...

Eagle County has set a lofty goal to combat climate change by achieving an 80% reduction in carbon emissions from 2014 levels by 2050. One major emitter of carbon emissions is buildings, which can be ...

Basalt Town Council on Tuesday discussed the need for a more uniform net-zero energy building code across the Roaring Fork and Eagle River valleys, with the hopes of achieving net-zero construction by ...

You might have seen or heard the term “net zero,” usually in connection with buildings. Maybe you wondered what it means, or how novel these buildings are. A basic definition of a net-zero building is ...

The District of Columbia has more green buildings than other large U.S. cities on a per capita basis, according to the 2012 Green Building Report. D.C.’s policies have made it a leader in highly ...

Jeremy Douglas says that the built-environment sector has spent years making net zero carbon promises. However, with version ...

The city's zoning commission on Wednesday approved the controversial net-zero zoning proposal, which would require future large developments to meet net-zero carbon emissions standards once they open ...

The John J. Sbrega Health and Science Building, which opened last fall on the Fall River, Mass., campus of Bristol Community College (BCC), claims to be the largest zero net energy (ZNE) classroom and ...