Earlier this month the NYC Building Resilience Task Force, led by Urban Green (USGBC's local chapter in New York), released its full report detailing more than 30 practical proposals to increase the resiliency of the city's buildings to extreme weather events. The task …
Kids spend a huge amount of their time in school: five days a week for seven or more hours a day. They also travel to and from those schools every day, and most of the time they aren't walking. According to the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, less than 15% o …
It has been widely reported that 2012 was the hottest year on record in the continental United States. This year has not been much different with NOAA recently reporting that not only was June 2013 one of the hottest month's of June ever, it represented the 340th straig …
We've been busy! This month GBIG added data on Arlington, Virginia's county wide initiative to reduce carbon emissions from municipal buildings, updated LEED Canada projects, and began organizing all of our green building projects around common location based attributes …
