Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Insulation plays an essential role in today’s buildings—whether it is to provide thermal efficiency to reduce energy demand and cut carbon emissions, or to reduce noise transmission to provide ...

For more than 30 years, Passive House principles have been a valuable guide to making buildings energy efficient. But now, with steady improvements in our understanding of embodied carbon—the carbon ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

This is another installment of our blog series on the landmark 2024 Massachusetts Clean Energy Bill, signed into law on November 21, 2024. Previous posts addressed how the Clean Energy Bill aims to ...

Earlier this year, a modernist mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay, marketed as the only solar-powered house in Miami Beach, sold for $15.25 million. The 112 photovoltaic panels on its roof feed ...

According to Architecture 2030, buildings produce approximately 40% of total global emissions of carbon dioxide. Most of those emissions are from the annual energy consumption of existing buildings.

The use of hemp as a material is gaining speed across industries, including health and beauty, textiles, food and more. One of the industries that now utilizes it is in construction. Hemp can be used ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Climate change headlines are the stuff of ...

Planning to renovate your entire home or add functionality to an outdated or underutilized space? Good news! You now have a unique opportunity to incorporate eco-friendly home improvements to help ...