The Forest Stewardship Council honors four stunning projects at Greenbuild for their use of sustainable timber.

Using Foamglas instead of polystyrene to insulate beneath our basement slab and on the foundation walls.

The Greenbuild conference, as usual, was the place to find out about innovations in green building products.

An easy-to-use online Fuel Cost Calculators lets you compare different fuels in terms of today’s energy costs.

A special feature of LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance (LEED-EBOM) certifications is that they come with an expiration date: since the certification is all about ongoing performance, project buildings have been required to seek recertification every five years. The only difficulty has been that the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has taken a lot of time to develop clear and specific guidelines for exactly how projects are supposed to do that.

Resilience and building science are the focus for our eleventh annual BuildingGreen Top-10 product awards.

Last year's BuildingGreen Top-10 product awards were the first to emphasize resilient design. This year, in the wake of more droughts, wildfires, and the last straw—SuperStorm Sandy—our need to focus on resilience is ever more urgent.

There’s a lot to talk about after Tuesday’s elections: urban planning, Keystone XL, and whether America is in a death spiral.

Hurricane Sandy demonstrated the vulnerability of our dependence on automobiles; we need to become a lot more resilient.

By now we’ve all seen the photos of houses buried in sand along the Jersey Shore, burned-out homes in Queens, and submerged subway stations in Manhattan.

From the most shocking photos to the most piercing analysis, we look at some of the best Sandy coverage this week.

One of the cleanest and most efficient ways to burn wood is provided by high-mass masonry heaters.

Over the past two weeks I’ve written about wood stoves and pellet heating. This week I’ll focus on another way to burn wood cleanly and efficiently: using a masonry heater.

Expensive callbacks and lawsuits can result when you don’t attend to the assembly details.

A flying saucer lands on Grand Central Station, buildings are reclaimed after heinous murders, and we gape in horror at global warming skepticism.

Historic preservation abducted by aliens

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Since when are coal-burning power plants “consumers”? A look at NSF’s dubious recycling definitions.

I took a call from Tom Frank, a reporter at USA Today last week, and spent over an hour on the phone with him explaining the proposed LEED v4 rating system and what it’s trying to achieve. I wish I had saved my breath, because the story that came out today used almost nothing from our conversation, and instead devotes itself to attacking LEED based not on the future, but on ancient (2002–2008) history.

What to like and what not to like about pellet stoves and pellet boilers.