Concrete is one of the most energy intensive, and hence, one of the most polluting substances used in modern building practices. This site does a fantastic job at describing the challenges inherent to Recycling and also gives great advice on how to go about recycling all kind of stuff.

The implementation of green collar jobs and strategy into the energy industry is no small feat, so it will be nothing less than fascinating to watch developments.

By giving green you can change the lives of people, who are hungry, help impoverished families build new homes and start businesses and send children to school instead of to work in the fields.

Recently, there was a little controversy about breastfeeding in public at Houston’s Discovery Green. According to sources from Twitter, a mother was asked to leave the park or go elsewhere while breastfeeding her child...

Revisions to FTC Green Guidelines to address specific claims often used for textiles, building materials or entire buildings.

A review of an article on the Wall Street Journal discussing the issues facing the Green Building community.

The Group of 20 major economic powers meeting this weekend should focus on a "Global Green Deal that capitalizes on the current economic crisis to build economically and environmentally sustainable economies.

The Charleston Area Community Development Corp. (a 501 C3) is holding a raffle to raise funds to build affordable homes with a new building material, an interlocking waterproof brick that is stronger than concrete, fireproof and saves huge amounts of energy. Raffle tickets are only $25 each and can be purchased at www.aeonianbricks.com

The Three Little Pigs have nothing on these digs. Ancient technique and modern groove set these structures apart from the little hillside boxes filling our neighborhoods. There are no cookie-cutter house plans here. Just clean, green, natural buildings smoothed from dirt, straw, clay, and loads of ingenuity. No Big Bad Wolf will blow these down.

Written by Chris Goodall, author of How to Live a Low Carbon Life, the book takes an open-eyed look at power sources, including wind, solar, wave, and heat, green home building, electric cars, carbon capture, biochar, and the soil and forests.

Cool, green, prefab homes...Blu Homes factory manufactures stylish, energy efficient, sustainable homes utilizing Cradle to Cradle (c2c) certified building materials, energy efficient lighting and appliances, efficient heating and cooling technologies...

Why should you be green and environmentally friendly when choosing a Roof for your building, house, shop, etc? Find out why in this interesting article about Green Roofing.

Solar panels are installed on the building as part of an effort to promote renewable energy. The gold dome is no longer the only rooftop feature of note at the Capitol, where crews on Sunday installed two slates of solar panels on the west and south slopes. The $31,000 project will generate enough electricity to power two homes and pay for itself

“GES 2009 will be a wholly interactive event with accent on the application of renewable energy and clean technologies in green power, green buildings, green fuels and transportation and green IT. The program will comprise high-level keynote sessions, expert case studies on specific themes, awards function

The Senate committee ignored calls from legal and consumer groups for a government-run system to replace the private scheme, as it has in Queensland. Greens Senator Christine Milne attacked the HIA, a broker of the insurance product, in her remarks on the inquiry, saying the current arrangement gave the organisation "undue power and influence"

"Hermann Scheer is a German parliamentarian who has turned ideas into practical solutions. Because of the laws that bear his name, Germany is now a solar-paneled, windmill-building, job-producing green powerhouse of the industrialized world. Fifteen per cent of Germany's electricity now comes from renewable energy systems."Video online.

Now the good news for all of us is this: we could build wind generators, today we must blame the energy companies for providing us with abundant, cheap and dependable electricity. For it is only their success that makes these proposed mandates possible. If they were already close to bankruptcy, the investment costs in "green" technologies would n

Solar and wind power in the home are probably the most widely used forms of alternative energy, build a wind generator, homemade wind generator, and wind generator plans. When used in conjunction they form a totally green, round the clock hybrid energy system. They can even be wired into the utility grid connected system

Officials in Ottawa are considering a cool plan to use the ‘cold energy’ stored in snow as a source of renewable energy in public buildings across the city. Under the plan, snow collected on the Ottawa streets during the cold winter months would be used to keep the city’s hospitals, universities and government buildings cool during the summer.

By office office office office office building green–and retrofitting existent buildings–the countries of North America could cut hothouse gas emissions by some-more than twenty-five percent