More Good than Harm: How Humanscale Reduced Carbon Emissions with a Lightbulb
The company is exploring every avenue to offset the carbon footprint of its manufacturing and operations—and then going further.
Sustainability
3 Low-Carbon Products to Add to Your Toolkit
A range of new options can help architects and designers who are working to lower the embodied carbon footprint of their projects.
Radical Change in the Building Industry Is Desperately Needed, and It Can't Happen Without Building Trades
Workers in the building sector are uniquely positioned to make the demand for an ecologically responsible architecture and the renewable energy to operate it.
Long-Term Plans: To Build for Resilience, We'll Need to Design With—Not Against—Nature
Moving away from its early exclusive focus on natural disasters, resilient architecture and design tackles the much tougher challenge of helping ecosystems regenerate.
11 Chic Alternatives to Vinyl Wallcoverings
Recent releases from Carnegie Fabrics and Maharam Design Studio up the ante for sustainable interiors.
Steady Change: Shaw Contract Designs Products for Multiple Lifecycles
The manufacturer has been committed to the Cradle to Cradle design philosophy, which embraces using recycled materials, for more than two decades.
If You Are Serious About Sustainability, Social Equity Can't Be Just Another Add-On
Social impact was supposed to be central to sustainability from the start. What happened?
A New Idea in Architecture? No New Buildings
The energy already embodied in the built environment is a precious unnatural resource. It’s time to start treating it like one.
The Most Searched Certifications of 2019
The CEO and founder of ecomedes gives us a behind-the-scenes analysis of ecolabel searches.
The Path to Positive: LightArt Takes on the Living Product Challenge
Through recycling programs and red list–free products, LightArt is setting itself up for its next goal, making products that are beneficial to the environment.
Humans Must Be Displaced From the Center of Design
In probing the relationship between humans and nature, two major exhibitions question the very foundations of design practice.
A Great Carbon Reckoning Comes to Architecture
Architects have finally begun taking a more nuanced approach to the carbon emitted by new buildings. Are they too late?
Studio Schicketanz Takes on Net Zero in a New Residential Project
A residence in Carmel Valley fuses its clients’ love for the past with sustainable, contemporary living and forward-looking building products.
Giovanni Vaccarini Architetti’s Powerbarn Treads Lightly—While Making a Big Impact
The facility produces ecomass-fueled energy while mitigating a former industrial site near Ravenna.
This Stunning Exhibition Examines Humankind’s Impact on Earth
Anthropocene, a radical multisensory media exhibit, runs through January 5 at MAST Foundation.
New Criteria for Affordable Housing: Green and Healthy
An update to the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria certification, available to property owners of low- and moderate-income housing, integrates key aspects of WELL 2.0.
What is the Social Impact of Sustainable Architecture?
Panelists at the Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability event in Los Angeles last week bemoaned the challenges of measuring social equity within sustainability certification frameworks.
Build Tall or Net-Zero? The Conundrums of Energy Efficiency
Panelists at the Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability event in Los Angeles last week discussed embodied carbon, adaptive reuse, and the new challenges in hitting energy goals.
California’s Wildfires Prove that Resilient Design Needs Constant Evolution
Panelists at the Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability event in Los Angeles last week pointed to policy and research on resilience as top priorities for architects and designers.
An International Design Team Crafts a Sustainable School Campus in Zagreb
The building, by Flansburgh Architects and SANGRAD+AVP, abuts a beloved public park and has become one of the most energy-efficient schools in the EU.
