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.

Sometimes bikers have to improvise where to leave their bikes, but many common bike racks may be worse than nothing.

Biking cross-country from San Francisco to Boston with a friend in 2010, I saw few showers, and had even fewer shaves.