A recent San Diego Housing Commission report concluded that the city has to triple the amount of housing it builds each year to meet demand. To tackle ...
Bloomberg European headquarters most sustainable office building
US financial data and media giant Bloomberg has unveiled its new European headquarters in London. The new office building is so environmentally friendly ...
NYC’s first citywide community land trust to fight inequality
A collaborative of nonprofit affordable housing organizations has announced the creation of the Interboro Community Land Trust (CLT), NYC’s first ...
1,500 affordable housing units just a start for Baltimore
As a result of a federal complaint filed in 2011, the state of Maryland is now offering 1,500 new affordable housing opportunities in high-opportunity ...
Volunteer group brings light back to Athens neighborhood
In the Kypseli neighborhood in Athens people have been dimming their lights to save money since the 2008 financial crisis. The volunteer group Foteini ...
Offshore wind turbines built in port more cost effective
Researchers from the University of Delaware have developed a method with which offshore wind farms could be constructed cheaper and faster. The scale ...
Google turns Toronto neighborhood into living lab
Urban innovations company Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and the Canadian government announced a collaboration ...
Toolkit brings environmental justice into city planning
SB 1000, an innovative environmental justice policy now mandated for all municipalities throughout California, requires cities to consider environmental ...
Food waste made into building materials
International engineering firm Arup, with a recent report, analyzes how organic waste could be repurposed into building materials to reduce food waste and ...
How Hong Kong creatively solves water problems
Hong Kong has too little and too much water at the same time. On the one hand, the city has very few reliable sources of drinking water as there is no ...
