Hear Clay Nesler talk about Johnson Control’s Sustainable Energy 4 All (SE4All) program in this short question and answer session. The program is a public-private partnership between companies, NGO partners such as SE4All and WRI, and 28 cities looking to...

The City of San Luis Obispo, CA declared June 20 to be “Net Zero Energy Day”. Mayor Heidi Harmon said, “Recent events to change federal climate action policies will not prevent the City from taking a leadership role on what...

I recall my father’s advice, “Do the best you can with what you have, and if the stars align, you’ll have the opportunity for better.” The staff at Rocky Mountain Institute’s (RMI’s) office in Boulder, Colorado, had made the most...

The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) is currently retrofitting its headquarters, HouseZero, into a zero-energy building with help from Scandinavian ‘green’ companies. When the building is completed at the end of the first quarter in 2018, it...

California now has 189 commercial buildings documented as either zero net energy (ZNE) verified (21) or ZNE emerging (168), as reported in the new 2017 California ZNE Watchlist. Most notably, the emerging ZNE project list increased 23% since last year...

Reprinted from The Fifth State (thefifthestate.com.au/urbanism/climate-change-news/un-and-iea-deliver-wake-up-call-to-the-building-sector)  Article was written by David Thorpe and originally published 12/12/17 Near-zero energy, zero-emissions buildings must become the global construction standard within the next decade for the world to have a chance of adequately fighting...

California Department of General Services (DGS) Director Dan Kim issued a mandate (Management Memo 17-04) in October expediting the Governor’s Executive Order B-18-12 and requiring zero net energy (ZNE) for new construction projects starting October 23, 2017. ZNE performance is...

California now has 189 commercial buildings documented as either zero net energy (ZNE) verified (21) or ZNE emerging (168), as reported in the new 2017 California ZNE Watchlist. Most notably, the emerging ZNE project list increased 23% since last year...

San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is responsible for educating over 56,000 students from grades kindergarten through 12th, preparing them for the future. In late September, the Board of Education took action to ensure that future would be sustainable by...

For the last two years, fourteen teams of the most advanced college students in the world have dedicated themselves to preparing for the upcoming 2017 Solar Decathlon, a premier global competition. On October 5-15, 2017, the participants unveiled the full-size...