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Green Globes and the Living Building Challenge join LEED in passing the GSA’s review for use in federal projects, an increase from just LEED in 2007.
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Projects include geothermal systems, rainwater catchment, ICFs, and straw bale construction.
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Green construction is moving from a niche to the mainstream.
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The proposals would have extended the lapsed $500 Existing Home Retrofit Tax Credit.
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While buyers aren’t looking for more house these days, they are looking for houses that do more.
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Materials matter—at the end. Green building means building better, says eco-guru Peter Yost. Here’s how to show clients you mean business.
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The Defense Department has been pulled into a different kind of battle than it's used to–the fight over the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED system and its preference for wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
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The Pentagon spending bill passed by Congress will force the military to provide a cost-benefit analysis and return on investment on its sustainable building efforts and will prohibit, through Sept. 30, any spending on reaching LEED gold and platinum certification.
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In what could be a major step toward quieting the wood-certification dispute, the U.S. Green Building Council has proposed giving credit under its LEED program to several currently unrecognized wood-certification groups for at least helping bring more transparency to green construction efforts.
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The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association added its voice to the housing industry's call against efforts to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction, even as the NLBMDA favored a legislative and regulatory policy agenda that echoes the surge in pro-business, anti-regulation...