By Emma Arnold on
03 Oct 2014 •
openbook 1 minute read
TSF’s National Solar Schools Census puts solar schools on the map. As the most comprehensive database of its kind, the census identifies 3,752 K-12 Schools with solar installations in the US. That means that nearly 2.7 million students attend schools with solar.
Th …
By Lane Burt on
05 Sep 2014 •
openbook 2 minute read
Last week, the U.S. Green Building Council and Ember Strategies released the results of a deep dive study into the design energy efficiency of a decade of LEED buildings at the ACEEE's 2014 Summer Study on Buildings - the biennial gathering of building efficiency nerds …
By Maija Krizmane on
04 Aug 2014 •
openbook 2 minute read
In a recently published post, I analyzed the energy efficiency achievements of a sample dataset of LEED for New Construction 2009 projects in the United States. LEED for New Construction (LEED-NC) and LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) rating system achievements are …
In the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, a cunning cyber-terrorist accesses information obtained from a stolen hard drive to hack into a computer at the headquarters of MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service. With the virtual gateway to the structure compromised, the …
By Maija Krizmane on
21 May 2014 •
openbook 2 minute read
Every LEED for New Construction project achieves a minimum level of energy efficiency that significantly exceeds requirements of advanced energy codes, typically ASHRAE 90.1 and California Title 24. Almost every LEED-NC project does more with design features intended …
By Maija Krizmane on
28 Apr 2014 •
openbook 2 minute read
Passive House is a widely used building certification program focusing primarily on residential energy efficiency. The vast majority of these projects are in Germany, though a handful of Passive House projects have been certified in the United States (with additional pr …
Chris Pyke, vice president of research at the U.S. Green Building Council, is a lead author for Chapter 9: Residential and Commercial Buildings in the third installment of a new report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The United Nati …
By Maija Krizmane on
20 Feb 2014 •
openbook 2 minute read
Earlier this year the New Buildings Institute released their ZNE 2014 Status Update detailing the achievements of 32 ‘verified’ zero net energy buildings across the U.S., and pointing towards an additional 180 “ZNE Emerging” and “Ultra-low Energy” buildings …
By Jeremy Sigmon on
16 Jan 2014 •
openbook 3 minute read
Yesterday, the New Buildings Institute (NBI) redefined the landscape of top performers in building energy efficiency in North America. NBI’s new report, “2014 Getting to Zero Status Update,” reveals 213 commercial buildings that are doing the unthinkable: building …
Am I doing enough? Are we doing enough? These are questions I ask myself as the Arctic’s ice and Greenland’s glaciers melt at an accelerating pace and as our planet’s life support systems continue to be subjected to relentless assault from extraction, overuse and …
