By Michele Chan Santos
On a quiet street in the tree-covered city of Rollingwood, a suburb of Austin, Texas, sits a house designed to epitomize everything technology and modern design can do to make a home environmentally friendly and safe for families with children.

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By John DeFore
Of all the products that made BuildingGreen’s new Top 10 list, the one most likely to be of use to those of us who aren’t building homes (or remodeling kitchens) any time soon is the LR6 LED Downlight from LLF. Designed for use in recessed lighting fixtures, the downlight offers predictable benefits over […]

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By Barbara Kessler
As the sub-prime loan implosion continues to seep the red ink of bad mortgages, home builders have been seeking cover in the color green.
No, it’s not yet a Christmas party. Building starts remain sluggish across the country. But green building, that once pigeonholed province of hippies and do-gooders, is growing despite the […]

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By Harriet L. Blake
BOSTON — Green is the word among a growing number of multi-family housing projects around the nation, from San Francisco to Austin and beyond. In Boston, developer Tim Pappas has built the city’s first residential “green building.” The Macallen Building, which opened in June, is a condominium development that incorporates the environment […]

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By Barbara Kessler
It is 86 degrees as the afternoon sun assaults the asphalt roofs of Frisco, Texas. But it is cool inside the Craftsman-style house on Beacon Hill Drive.
The usual whir of the AC, ever present in so many area houses, has been replaced by the sounds of gently rustling leaves and breezes outside […]

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