Sustainable Building Materials
What does it take for architecture to be sustainable? It’s not just vehicles that contribute to pollution; buildings consume 20-50% of physical resources and produce emissions long after construction. Sustainable architecture includes both the use of resources in...
Air Quality Strategies to Improve City Carbon Emissions
Air pollution is the worst environmental and health risk worldwide, and cities are the biggest polluters, contributing up to 70% of the world’s carbon emissions. We’re choking out our planet and our people. Clearly, something needs to change. Cities around the...
How Cities Around the World are Planning for Climate Change
A growing majority of the global population lives in urban areas, many of them coastal cities that are vulnerable to severe flooding and tropical storms. Leaders and citizens in these urban areas recognize the importance of continued protection of cities from...
What is Greenwashing?
Greenwashing is the practice of using marketing to make exaggerated or unsubstantiated claims that a company, technology, product, or service is safe or beneficial for the environment. Companies often capitalize on lean, energy-efficient, or otherwise “green”...
Building a Better Environment in the Construction Industry: What is the Role of Environmental Economists?
As the world becomes increasingly aware of the daily impact that human activity has on the environment, new schools of thought have been developed to better fit environmental considerations into the way we live our lives and conduct our business. Environmental...
