We are excited to announce that Kat Taylor will be a keynote speaker at our 2019 Getting to Zero Forum. Kat is Co-Founder and CEO of Beneficial State Bank, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and certified B Corporation whose...

Flywheel Development is a real estate development company in the District of Columbia that builds ultra-low energy properties in urban neighborhoods. We sat down with co-owners Jessica Pitts and John Miller to learn more about how they are redeveloping areas...

When Appendix Z becomes the District of Columbia base energy code in the next decade, all new construction will be required to be designed to net-zero standards. This means all new buildings will use only as much energy as they...

This blog was originally posted by Brooks Kushman on May 30, 2019. A new “net zero energy building” opened in Singapore recently, signaling a step in the right direction for the World Green Building Council’s mission of all buildings operating at...

Guest blog written By Chris McEntee, Executive Director/CEO at AGU AGU is a global community of 60,000 Earth and space scientists. They are celebrating their Centennial year reflecting on past accomplishments and looking to the future to transform and improve...

Earlier this month, the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii recorded carbon dioxide levels that surpassed 415 parts per million. That’s the highest level in recorded human history. As the potentially devastating impacts from carbon-fueled climate change loom, many cities and...

ASHRAE announced details today on its new global headquarters in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, a 66,700-square-foot building renovation to net-zero energy performance. Check out ashrae.org/newhq for updates on progress through to the anticipated opening in October 2020. “We are excited to...

Getting to zero energy and zero carbon buildings at scale begs the question: What are the technology priorities and gaps to achieving successful projects, and where is further investment needed? That is the subject of an extensive study analyzing technology...

This blog was originally posted by Rocky Mountain Institute on May 6, 2019. Oakland, CA (May 6, 2019) — Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) today announced a national partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the California Energy Commission (CEC)...

Every year, New Buildings Institute (NBI) digs into its extensive Getting to Zero Buildings Database and analyzes the information collected from thousands of low-energy projects across the United States and Canada in order to offer the market an official count...