I am often asked, “how can I expand my green building business?” My answer is simple and the same response I have offered for years, attend the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. This year Greenbuild is in Los Angeles from October 5 - 7. I ...

Given the large number of inquiries we have responded to about Zika, including about liability for building owners, this is a repost of an updated version of my February blog post on the subject. Owners of LEED buildings should evaluate the need to apply pesticides, ...

The First Parish in Bedford, Unitarian Universalist church has appealed from a decision of the Historic District Commission of the Town of Bedford that denied First Parish's application for a certificate of appropriateness to install solar panels on its Meetinghouse roof. The complaint filed Superior ...

PACE financing, where payments for energy efficiency, water conservation and renewable energy improvements to real estate are made through a building owner’s property tax bill without upfront cash from the owner could be bigger than anything in U.S. real estate since the invention of the glass window.

There were no state troopers at the Vermont border last week inspecting food packages for GMO labels. And with this federal law the U.S. will not have a patchwork of different State or local laws banning GMO food products or requiring GMO labels. Whether, the good, the ugly, the bad (.. the title of my favorite spaghetti Western) or some other attribute associated with this Congressional act is your pleasure, GMO labels are coming to your supermarket.

Imposing a new tax on the failure of a landowner constructing a building to obtain a third party green building certification (while obviously not in the same order of magnitude as the penalty of death imposed by the Code of Hammurabi for failure to construct a building properly) also raises the very real issue of how efficacious that sustainable project will be when the owner is simply pursuing a number of points to avoid imposition of the impact fee.

The recent unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States, is a win for small businesses and very good for those that work on Green Globes projects. In an effort to encourage small businesses, Congress has mandated that federal ...

SITES is a sustainable landscape rating system. SITES is modeled after the LEED green building rating system. And while it is a standalone tool for measuring landscape sustainability, in June 2015, Green Business Certification Inc., the USGBC associated certification body for LEED, announced it had ...