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Earlier we told you about the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste, and car-free city called the Masdar City. This $22 billion development in Abu Dhabi also requires some green building designs that are self dependent for energy needs. Since the...

What best suits the environment is what we all should do. Today we desperately need a green world and it's good to see the growing awareness in the general public. The implication needs to be on a mass scale and the race has begun, from green...

Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker will soon have LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified green building in Haifa, Israel. It will be home to Intel's latest Development Design Center. This new green building...

Want to do something really creative and different in your office space or home? Take a look at these Kvadrat’s modular North Tiles and give life to your imagination. These colorful tiles combine a creative folding system with...

The $1 billion Bank of America Tower at one Bryant Park in New York City is not only beautiful to look at, but it is extremely environment friendly too. Designed by Cook+Fox Architects, this skyscraper is currently being constructed on the west.

Taking another step forward, North Carolina has come closer to the dream of developing a green city. Lead by directions on energy efficiency and conservation, sustainability, green building and green purchasing practices, the Proximity Hotel...

Green Exchange, a shopping center to be opened in Chicago, early in 2008 will be the first environment-friendly shopping center in the U.S. and hence a socially conscious business. With its going green, the Consolidated Printing - that has been using.

It is really tiring and monotonous to live in an urban jungle. But, how many of us living in a city or in an urban region can manage to take a break from the concretes surrounding us, and enjoy the greenery somewhere in the outskirts at...

Just two years to go, and we may see the earth diminishing of its abundant of fly ash disposed off onto it especially from coal-burning power plants. But how? Henry Liu, a retired civil engineering professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia has a...

Actor Brad Pitt will narrate Design: e2 around the world. The six-part series is exclusively about environmentally friendly architecture and building. Herald Sun has planned this program to highlight and spread awareness on the importance of green...