Restoring Meaningful Energy Performance to the AIA CoTE Top Ten Awards

The AIA Top Ten sustainable buildings award has been a beacon for 12 years, but many of the latest crop of celebrants are not sufficiently deserving of the accolade, because they are mediocre in their energy performance. This is an award intended to honor excellence in sustainable design…

Getting Serious About Energy In Public Buildings

Lets stop counting points and instead focus peoples attention much more clearly with a measurement we all understand very well – dollars.

A Little Madness in the Spring

Spring is upon us. Every year at this time we find an excess of people taking out ads paying lip service to “going green” or “saving the planet” or reminding us “For all of us here at the Apocalypse Corporation, every day is Earth Day” and associated claims.

Given our economic and political circumstances here in the U.S.