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Help! My Green Building Isn't Physically Demanding Enough.

Our buildings are the exact antithesis of the Great Outdoors. Buildings—especially the modern skyscraper with its complex of offices, commercial spaces, residential areas—have become beautiful enclosures. Whereas in the past our hunter-gatherer ancestors were always on the go, prowling and…

neoli29 June 2015

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Safe Furniture for Better Indoor Air Quality

Not all furniture are created equal. Your local artisan might have honest-to-goodness intentions when crafting a dining chair, but unfortunately that’s not the scenario in big-time factories that churn out products by the thousands each day. Mass production, in its…

neoli23 June 2015

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LEED Adopts SITES in the Quest for Sustainable Landscaping

The Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) has recently launched its newly adopted SITES rating system for sustainable landscaping. Generally regarded as the LEED equivalent for landscapes, the Sustainable Sites Initiative (or SITES) was developed in the fall of 2009 as…

neoli15 June 2015

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Recharging Our Aquifers Through Green Building

Back in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a speech regarding water scarcity and conservation for an event called the International Conference on Water for Peace, attended by UN delegates from all over the world. Coincidentally, a week earlier, President…

neoli10 June 2015

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May Story Roundup

Here are the stories that defined the month of May: from melting ice shelves and global levels of CO2, to a 19th-century-inspired solar energy system to the insane amount of water a small piece of steak requires for it to reach…

neoli31 May 2015

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Building Performance at a Glance with the LEED Dynamic Plaque

We live in the Age of Metrics where every bit of information and experience can now be quantified and digitized: steps we take each day, calories burned, hours slept, the number of people who just unfollowed you on Twitter, and…

neoli24 May 2015

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Animal Rights in the Year 2015

As of now, Leo and Hercules’ case is still pending. The two chimpanzees were briefly (for just a few hours) recognized as legal persons last month and granted a writ of habeas corpus, which basically frees them from detention, and…

neoli18 May 2015

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Low- and High-Tech Solutions for Earthquake-Proof Green Buildings

Experts tell us that it is buildings—not earthquakes—which claim lives. Before we had buildings and cities rising up and dotting the landscape, when everything was just valleys or fields or marshes or forests, and certainly no people around—earthquakes were just…

neoli7 May 2015

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April Roundup of Stories: Up House, Volcanoes and Global Warming, Influential Buildings, and More

Welcome to our monthly roundup of stories from all over the web, stories which might have gone under your radar and didn't get the retweets and shares they deserve. From the real-life Up House, to the flimsy link between volcanoes…

neoli30 April 2015

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Green Building, Good Design: Winners and Chosen Ones

This April the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment picked its top ten best green projects in all of US. Since 1990, AIA/COTE has been recognizing projects that consciously incorporate sustainable design while addressing ecological issues. …

neoli27 April 2015

Help! My Green Building Isn't Physically Demanding Enough.

Safe Furniture for Better Indoor Air Quality

LEED Adopts SITES in the Quest for Sustainable Landscaping

Recharging Our Aquifers Through Green Building

May Story Roundup

Building Performance at a Glance with the LEED Dynamic Plaque

Animal Rights in the Year 2015

Low- and High-Tech Solutions for Earthquake-Proof Green Buildings

April Roundup of Stories: Up House, Volcanoes and Global Warming, Influential Buildings, and More

Green Building, Good Design: Winners and Chosen Ones

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