Articles / Sustainability & Climate
Green Building Advisor
The Environmental Impacts of Trump 2.0's First Year in Office, February 3, 2026
Getting Plastics Out of Our Buildings, December 30, 2025
New Children’s Book Celebrates the Power and Potential of Energy-Sharing Networks, December 16, 2025
The Future of Sustainable Forestry Resides in Idaho, December 9, 2025
TimberHP Is Finally Rolling Out its TimberBoard Continuous Wood Fiber Insulation, November 11, 2025
With Government Shutdown, Energy Department Targets Select Grants and Companies for Cancelation, October 7, 2025
Normalizing Hemp and Straw Up North, September 30, 2025
In Consideration of the 2024 IECC, September 16, 2025
Massachusetts Updates Its SMART Program to Even the Solar Playing Field, August 19, 2025
If Energy Star Survives, It Will Be on Shaky Ground, August 12, 2025
Built Buildings Lab Promotes the Embodied Values of Existing Buildings, July 22, 2025
Mass Timber’s Place on the Question of Housing, June 26, 2025
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Will Undo the Inflation Reduction Act, June 17, 2025
Considering Biochar’s Potential in Low-Carbon Concrete, June 9, 2025
New Wood Product from Kraft Paper, June 3, 2025
FEMA Ends Grant Program Focused on Resiliency and Climate Mitigation Efforts, May 20, 2025
Trump Administration Wants to Eliminate Decades-Old Energy Star Program, May 16, 2025
A New Wildfire-Preparedness Standard, May 6, 2025
Andersen Corporation Wants to Invest More in the Circular Economy, April 30, 2025
Maine Puts Business at the Core of Weatherization Training, April 14, 2025
Green Banks’ Funding Is in the Trump Administration’s Crosshairs, March 28, 2025
The Edison in Milwaukee Wants to Be More Than the Next Mass Timber High Rise, March 21, 2025
How about Quonset Huts as Sustainable and Resilient Homes?, March 17, 2025
Cambridge, Mass., Goes All in on Renewable Energy Certificates, March 11, 2025
A New Product from Wood Waste Streams, March 3, 2025
Energy Parks Provide a Strong Pathway for Large Power Demands, February 25, 2025
Trump Administration Declares a National Energy Emergency, February 6, 2025
The Importance of Regenerative Building Materials, January 13, 2025
New York City’s Local Law 97 Begins Reporting Period, January 7, 2025
What Could Happen to the Inflation Reduction Act in the Next Trump Administration?, January 2, 2025
Do CALGreen’s Embodied Carbon Measures Make Compliance Too Easy?, December 24, 2024
Mass Timber Prototype Demonstrates Value of Demolition Materials, December 17, 2024
Scaling Renewable Energy Production and Storage in a Changing Climate, December 3, 2024
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Metropolis Magazine
Tracing Mass Timber’s Full Life Cycle, December 5, 2025
Liz Martin-Malikian is Decarbonizing the Curriculum, July 2, 2025
Behind the Fine Art and Science of Glazing, June 19, 2025
Envision Resilience Participants Design for Vulnerable Coastlines, April 23, 2025
Taisugar Circular Village is a Model Case Study for Circular Economies, March 12, 2025
Why Interface Wants to Phase Out Carbon Offsets, January 10, 2025
Antje Steinmuller Wants to Get the Housing Question Right, November 21, 2024
How the Furniture Industry is Stepping Up on Circularity, October 10, 2024
The 2024 Net Zero Conference Highlights the Importance of Collective Action, October 9, 2024
Grace Farms Foundation Holds Third Annual Design for Freedom Summit, April 12, 2024
Shepley Bulfinch Celebrates Its 150th Anniversary with Boston Exhibition, April 3, 2024
Manufacturers Catch Up on Embodied Carbon, January 24, 2024
Bowdoin College Unveils Maine’s First Commercial Mass Timber Project, January 3, 2024
Pittsburgh’s Mill 19 Is a Postindustrial Innovation Hub, May 1, 2023
“We Need to Integrate Everything”: Arturo Vittori’s Warka Village Nears Completion In Cameroon, October 3, 2022
In Detroit, Architecture that Stands Out While Also Listening, August 11, 2022
AIA Architect
Fulfilling a dream through design: The team behind the National Juneteenth Museum plans to make it a cultural and economic center, February 9, 2026
The new materials toolkit simplifying architects’ sustainability decisions, November 17, 2025
Designing a restorative housing community, October 13, 2025
A restorative future for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, August 18, 2025
Can real estate be a tool for social change? Adre says yes, June 26, 2025
A regenerative college campus from the ground up, June 16, 2025
Deaf education design in the spotlight at AIA25, June 5, 2025
Low-carbon concrete solutions are showing high potential, May 5, 2025
Common Edge
It’s Not a Design Issue: Why the AIA’s response to the Uvalde mass shooting is so disheartening, June 2, 2022
Peanuts Urbanism: Charles Schulz’s Subtle Critique of Suburbia, April 26. 2022
The Subversive Urbanism of Pixar Movies, October 13, 2021
Rethinking the Role of Experimental Cities in Combating Climate Change, September 8, 2021
Why “Use Is the Best Form of Preservation”, August 10, 2021
Remembering Kristen Richards, July 8, 2021
At the Intersection of Critical Race Theory & Urban Planning, June 21, 2021
The American Car Dealership Is Doomed, June 1, 2021
Marschitecture: The Glory and Folly of Space-Age Manifest Destiny, March 23, 2021
What -isms Tell Us About Architecture’s Preoccupation with “Human” Design, March 1, 2021
Elevated and Isolated: In Consideration of the Urban Skyway, February 1, 2021
Should Architects Continue to Design Airports in the Age of Climate Change?, January 4, 2021
Water Towers: Iconic Infrastructure, Underutilized Opportunity, November 23, 2020
Hallmark Urbanism and the Future of Small Town America, October 19, 2020
Other
EnergySage News
California’s War on Rooftop Solar: A New Bill Could Dim Homeowners’ Energy Freedom, June 12, 2025
Fine Homebuilding
Environmentally Friendly Concrete, July 2024
Fine Homebuilding
Why Fortified Standards (and Others Like Them) Matter, April/May 2024
OhmConnect
Michigan Ushers in a Greener Future with Groundbreaking Suite of Climate Laws, December 1, 2023
OhmConnect
Understanding Carbon Emissions and our Whole-Life Carbon Footprint, August 4, 2023
Architectural Record
Zeroing In On Zero: Architects Zero In On Zero to Define Building Performance, April 3, 2023
Architectural Record
Congress Passes Legislation Focused On Resilience and Equity, December 19, 2022
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
The (Green) Walls Become the World. Global Design Leaders Share Insights on the Future of Biophilia, August 23, 2022
ENTER (AIA Minnesota)
Applying Interdisciplinary Research in Design, May 16, 2024
Rethinking Remembrance at Lakewood Cemetery’s Net-Zero Welcome Center, March 21, 2024
Spotlight on St. Louis Park, December 21, 2023
The Minnesota Zoo Opens the Treetop Trail, August 17, 2023
Two University of Minnesota Student Teams Win Big at the 2023 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge, June 15, 2023
Meeting the (Living Building) Challenge, May 18, 2023
Minnesota’s GreenStep Cities Program Quietly Changes the State, One City at a Time, November 17, 2022
Duluth Embarks on an Effort to Restore Its Embattled Shoreline, August 25, 2022
Silver Bay Looks to the Future with AIA Minnesota’s Minnesota Design Team, June 30, 2022
The State of Mass Timber in Minnesota, May 2, 2022
How LHB Charted Its Course to Regenerative Design, February 24, 2022
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center Sets a New Global Standard in Sustainable Design, January 13, 2022