Before getting into energy efficiency, Adam D. Ganz worked in real estate. Since getting his MBA, Adam has taken on the role of Energy Efficiency Program Manager at Willdan Energy Solutions. Read about how he changed his career path to a green one with an MBA in sustainability.READ»
Jennifer Siegal
Jennifer Siegal first grabbed our attention in 2006, as a prefab pioneer with an abundance of percolating ideas. Fast-forward, and the 44-year-old's eco-friendly visions are coming to fruition. Her first completed ...READ»
Walter Hood transforms run-of-the-mill public spaces—city parks, highway underpasses—into pillars of the communities they serve. His goal: to prove that every place, and every person, can benefit from good design.READ»
The Glendale, Wisconsin headquarters of Johnson Controls has received LEED Platinum certification (the highest recognition)--capping the largest concentration of LEED platinum buildings on one site.READ»
I recently had a chance to meet with the cofounders of evolveEA, an architectural design firm with a passion for sustainability. And that's when I learned about the work they did with the East End Veterinary Medical Center and how it completely flipped the clinic's customer experience on its ear.READ»
Grad students Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta were struggling to come up with a new software product for the iPad. They turned to the Institute of Design at Stanford. Six weeks later, they launched news aggregator app Pulse.READ»
Her big idea? Create a fashion hub at New York's Lincoln Center, which Stephanie Winston Wolkoff calls a "blank white canvas that hadn't been filled."READ»
Our banking system has suffered a major setback. Meanwhile, smaller banks with environmental and social sustainbility at their core are flourishing. What can we learn?READ»
The U.S. Green Building Council has LEED -- certified fewer than 6,000
commercial developments in the past decade and awarded its platinum
rating twice. "Right now, you have to be one of the lucky few to live
or work in a green ...READ»
If you say it right, “urban turbine” rhymes. But can it move beyond its oxymoronic wordplay and into the real world? Designers and architects are beginning to say yes.READ»
What makes a college environmentally friendly? Does it need scores of rooftop solar panels and LEED-certified buildings or will a PETA-approved cafeteria menu suffice?READ»
LEED certification: it isn't just for high-end apartment buildings, giant office complexes, and swanky hotels. Motel 6--yes, the famously low-rent motel chain we all know and love--expects to get Leadership in Energy and ...READ»
ZETA Communities isn't wasting any time in rolling out its "net zero energy" modular multi-family homes in California. The San Francisco-based startup, which opened a 91,000 square foot net zero housing factory late year, is ...READ»
Think the trend of businesses making green office renovations is just a passing fad? Not according to the latest issue of EL Insights, which reports that the U.S. green building market value will balloon from $71.1 billion now to ...READ»
Samsung, GE, Microsoft. Laundry detergent, bikini briefs, consumer electronics. The Industrial Designers Society of America sorts through it all in bestowing its annual International Design Excellence Awards. This year, the group ...READ»
In the two weeks following the publication of "Look Who's Curing Cancer" (May), about IBM's campaign to recruit the public to volunteer their idle computers for medical research, World Community Grid added 11,000 computers, the ...READ»
The prefab homes of the future won't just be relatively cheap and easy to build on the fly--they'll also be ultra-sustainable. For evidence of what these homes will look like, we need only direct our attention toward this year's ...READ»
