ASHEVILLE - To build a home at a proposed West Asheville subdivision, there is only one rule — the home must power itself. A new 17-lot green home subdivision has been proposed for 1 Greenius Way off ...

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MOUNT VERNON — Local entrepreneur Kevin Maas has gone from turning manure into an energy source to building Mount Vernon’s first certified Built Green home. Built Green is a certification given by the ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. - January 20, 2009-Brattleboro, Vermont-based BuildingGreen, LLC, just announced the launch of GreenBuildingAdvisor.com. Accessing the nation's oldest, deepest database of ...

That partly explains how the showcase home at the International Builders Show in Orlando, Fla., earlier this month earned a Gold rating for green building, despite being a 6,725-square-foot, ...

Towards ensuring affordable and environmentally-friendly living, the Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company (NMRC) has called on private developers to build more green residential houses. Its Managing ...

Did you know that the buildings around us, and the ones we live in, are responsible for 40% of Europe’s energy consumption? To achieve a climate-neutral Europe by 2050, we need to build differently.

Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. Black-billed magpies and pine siskins sing on the banks of an acequia — a traditional irrigation ditch — that flows through Valverde Commons, a ...

LAKE CITY — Pink isn’t the color of the insulation in the home that Paul and Sara Freid are building in Goodhue County. It’s golden, like the hue of grain fields at harvest time, because the ...

In my last column, I made the case for the importance of energy efficiency and sustainability in the construction of new homes and renovation of existing homes. I promised that in my next column I ...