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To bring this super-efficient design up to Passive House standards, the U.S. team imported certain products from Germany.
Despite the challenges of building on an extremely steep, pristine site, this home manages to thoughtfully limit future resource consumption
The owners of this unusual luxury home set out to build "the greenest home in its class," a place that might influence other affluent cultural and business leaders.
This elegant, tiny house was designed with light, flow, and affordability top of mind.
This urban timber frame home elevates the art of craft in home building.
This durable, low-energy housing project won the hearts of our judges because of the way it integrates old and new technologies to nudge owners toward living more lightly on the Earth.
Public/private partnership creates 100 new affordable green units for seniors in Los Angeles.
NEDLAW Living Walls has completed the installation of the largest known active living wall in the United States.
Offer your home buyers sustainable yards that are low maintenance and chemical free, plus offer on-site food production.
Research on products reveals builder/architect preferences.
Green Builder announces a partnership with Structure Home to build a demonstration home to the new Cal Green standard.
This home is not only dazzling to behold, but it's also heated and powered almost entirely by the sun.
A home of many firsts.
Achieving green with conventional local materials.
Home energy and cost savings to help establish model for zero-energy projects.
A new strategy for household water conservation
Brisk sales for a energy-efficient community in Arizona.
A new model for Washington, D.C., showcases affordable green.
Researchers around the world are identifying the street patterns, transportation modes, and amenities that will reduce the energy required (and pollution created) when people go about their daily trips.
Nation's first net-zero energy affordable community to break ground in suburban St. Louis.
Tuscon builder goes from leading builder to leading remodeler.
Brisk home sales for an all-solar neighborhood in California.
The bad economy isn't the only reason home sizes are shrinking.
Home buyer demand spurs increase in PulteGroup solar communities.
Four urban infill homes offer an energy-efficient lifestyle.
When consumers become the bullhorn for building green, builders benefit.
Earth Day will mark the grand opening of two new sustainable homes in the Barber City area of Westminster, Calif. Check out the choices this builder made to get to LEED Gold.
New systems, better application of technology, and progressive thinking bring sustainability to backyard swimming pools.
Luxury green is still going up around the country. Here are the green amenities one developer offers city dwellers.
A study of 30,000 consumers finds that their perceptions of which companies have the best environmental processes often have nothing to do with reality--and everything to do with clever marketing.
As fossil fuel prices dropped a couple of years ago, the market for small, green homes took a thrashing. But a few entrepeneurs believe that's changing.
The Grand Winner of Green Builder magazine’s annual Green Builder Home of the Year Award program garnered national attention in USA Today. The net-zero energy...
An architect and owner dreamed up a serene Japanese pavilion–style home, a seasoned green builder crafted it into reality.
Green Builder Magazine Expert Ron Jones details the steps builders must take to stay alive in the world of green building.
A pattern for sustainable development emerges as builders
successfully court projects through tough economic times.
A pattern for sustainable development emerges as builders
successfully court projects through tough economic times.
Research shows that consumer habits and choices often decide whether a technologically “greener” product will actually save resources.