Growing Cities Of The Future

By Victoria Vele and Rich Greene, LCBG Interns

All cities are not created equal. Each is designed, developed, and actually constructed at different points in time. This affects architecture, building stock, and even the people who live there. Urban transformation is inevitable because people have evolving needs. We are challenged with maintaining a balanced ecosystem through every urban development (new or old). The video I’ve decided to post this week is by Lilium Urbanus, Read More

Zero Brownstone Gives Way to Huge Benefits

If you haven’t already realized that there is a completely green brownstone within our midst, then you probably wouldn’t be the first. Gennaro Brooks-Church, Director of Eco Brooklyn, has developed this show house as a way to highlight all the possibilities of creating an environmentally friendly house. His passion for green building techniques is quite obvious if you have ever been to Eco Brooklyn’s website or set foot in the green show house, located Read More

Living City Block Targets Small Commercial Buildings – One Block at a Time

Via Rick Nicholson, IDC Clean Energy Blog – Last November Living City Block, a non-profit organization that was spun out from the Rocky Mountain Institute, received a $600,000 ARRA technical assistance award from the U.S. DOE as part of the Commercial Buildings Partnership Program.  Living City Block is using the award to help achieve its goal of taking one and a half city blocks in Denver and transforming it into a sustainable community. Read More