To the casual observer, Ohio’s sustainable building policy for public buildings has been a notable success. Requiring that new schools and retrofits
Buildings are a main source of energy use and greenhouse gases. In Toronto, for example, 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions
While finding a direct link between climate change and flooding events has proven a complex exercise, a new multi-country study published in the Hydrological
Twenty years ago, I and a small group of undergrads from various American universities flew into Lagos on a muggy January evening.
Concrete is a conundrum. It’s the world’s most heavily consumed manmade material, with nearly three tonnes used per person, every year. Yet
Nobody wants to live in a city that is unsustainable. A truly sustainable city can be defined as one that does not
When Bern Grush co-founded the company Skymeter in 2002 he thought his GPS-based smart metering system for vehicles would be a big hit
It has become accepted wisdom that density is a good thing, as part of the notion that cities should grow, adapt and
Tyler McNaney didn’t get into 3D printing for the usual reasons. Rather than creating things out of seemingly nothing, he was motivated
America’s most visible octogenarian is on a power diet. The Empire State Building, built in 1931 and reigning as the world’s tallest