Green Home & Building

EarthTechling interviewed founder James Welch Mitchell to learn how Renewablue is helping Coloradans embrace clean energy technologies for less.

This stunning design allows people, building, and garden to co-exist in a way that was symbiotic. The result is an indoor environment that’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

Pre-fabricated homes are becoming more sophisticated by the second. Here are five amazing houses that you’d never guess were built in a factory.

A new whitepaper explores the driving trends behind high-performance buildings and the positive benefits they deliver for building owners, communities, and our national economy.

The Dutch cooperative Except offers a modular office-space conversion concept that can be deployed quickly at a wide range of large indoor industrial spaces.

BIG’s design for a whimsical museum dedicated to the Danish toy looks like, well, a big pile of overlapping Lego bricks, complete with the round “studs.”

The former site of the Shanghai Expo will soon be transformed into Green Valley, a sustainable business and entertainment district that will include parks, gardens and green design.

Kaplan Thompson’s net-zero-energy farmhouse in Virginia, which meets Passivhaus standards and is on track for LEED Platinum, is also built for sheep grazing on its roof.

See and reduce energy waste through Valta’s smart outlet/app combo.

Using 10,000-year-old building methods and eschewing all electricity, the Adere Amellal Hotel in Egypt’s Siwa Oasis may be one of the most energy efficient, sustainable hotels in the world.

One of the latest projects to spring up around New York’s High Line, the Solar Carve Tower will minimize the shadows it casts while maximizing the daylight entering the building.

Sears Holdings’ new Ubiquity division wants to adapt its closed Sears and Kmart retail stories into cost-effective data centers, disaster recovery depots or cell-tower locations.