Don’t Miss the Sustainability Event of the Year! Green Builder Media invites you to join us at our fourth annual Sustainability Symposium on January 20, 2020 in Las Vegas. Focused on the nexus between environmental stewardship, social equity, and financial abundance, the event will highlight how sustainable development can optimize health and opportunity.  More

Feeling Down? Try Some Actual Reality Today’s many man-made crises can be addressed, but not if we listen to hucksters and sociopaths. More.

That 'Ounce of Prevention' The old axiom, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” famously attributed to Benjamin Franklin, is believed to have referred to fire prevention, but it can apply to many kinds of threats that result from a host of man-made and “natural” disasters. More

The Builders’ Guide to California’s 2019 Title 24 Code  The 2019 Title 24 Code brings 50% more stringency to residential housing in just one code cycle. It’s all done in the noble interest of cost-effective energy efficiency, but it is challenging to building professionals who must balance new requirements with profitability.  More

2021 Code Cycle: How Today’s Decisions about Energy Codes will Drive the Rapid Transition to Net Zero Buildings The EECC’s Bill Fay will discuss what’s ahead in this year’s ICC Code Development cycle:  the stakes, the challenge, the deadlines, and the players.