Drawing all eyes in a business district in downtown Yokohama, the Port Plus building is fashioned solely from tidy wooden ...

Benefits include cleaner indoor air for residents, lower operating costs for buildings, and less pollution in neighborhoods ...

Buildings are responsible for nearly 40% of annual carbon dioxide emissions. Of that 40%, 28% can be attributed to everyday building operations including heating and cooling. As the world moves toward ...

Cities across the U.S. are cracking down on commercial real estate carbon emissions and enacting regulations that will require building owners to make changes. The first step for many building owners ...

Danielle Mieler, Alameda’s sustainability and resilience manager, also attended the awards ceremony because her tireless work ...

Building decarbonization – through electrification and energy efficiency – is key to expanding the clean energy economy and reaching ambitious climate goals, but it’s one area where even governments ...

Constructing new buildings and single-family homes to be all-electric out of the gate, as opposed to merely “electric-ready”, is likely an economically preferable route to building decarbonization, a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration on April 2 released Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy by 2050: A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector, a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse-gas ...

Reducing energy consumption has become a call to arms for governments and energy producers as they scramble to secure alternative fuel sources. But in its wake, the energy crisis is not just leaving ...

We are witnessing the remarkable transformation of the U.S. building sector with record emissions reductions that began in 2005. In the U.S., from the Industrial Revolution (late 1700s) to 2005, as ...

Twelve U.S. mayors were recognized today for their local energy and climate protection programs, with each winning a 2026 ...