Archive for February 14th, 2012

Green building has grown from just 2 percent of the U.S. single-family residential construction market in 2005 to 17 percent in 2011. Not only that, green residential is slated to increase to as much as 38 percent of the market by 2016. Read the rest of this entry »

We see green innovation in many places: cars, homes, telecommunications, home appliances, food packaging, public transport and, of course, power generation. That’s just for starters. While we see green progress in most areas of our lives – there are even green car washes and green dry cleaners now – there’s one industry that would appear to be stuck in the 1970s in terms of pollution and waste: the global shipping industry, one of the most prominent eco-Neanderthals in the world. Read the rest of this entry »