25 March 2010
Integrating landscape architecture and banishing ‘eco bling’ were just two of the hot topics Ella Taylor heard about at Ecobuild 2010
23 March 2010
Tenerife Government’s Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies has launched 25 self sufficient homes
12 March 2010
In a tour-de-force presentation at Ecobuild, USGBC founding member John Picard dubbed insulation “the next Big Bang”.
09 March 2010
schmidt hammer lassen architects have won a competition to design the International Criminal Court in The Hague
01 March 2010
A university lecturer is travelling around the world to research cheaper methods of building sustainable homes, in the hope that this will make them more widely available in the UK
25 February 2010
A light-filled and light-emitting cube covered in photovoltaic cells will form the new US embassy in London
23 February 2010
The next round of UN climate change negotiations will take place in Bonn, Germany, on 9-11 April, it has been announced
17 February 2010
A UNEP team assessing the reconstruction needs in Haiti says there will massive environmental impacts to deal with
05 February 2010
Following the heavily criticised conclusion of the Copenhagen climate change talks, the UNFCCC has received national pledges to cut carbon emissions from 55 countries, including the EU
03 February 2010
Work is beginning this month to build a programme of sustainable classrooms in rural Uganda, designed by a Gifford team as part of an international architecture competition
07 December 2009
Newspapers from around the world put political, social and language differences aside to publish a joint editorial calling for action from world leaders at Copenhagen
02 December 2009
RICS has published a Global Climate Change Strategy, a UK Climate Change Action Plan and research showing that many surveyors worldwide are lukewarm about sustainability.
02 December 2009
Government export support body UK Trade & Investment has been reviewing the capability of UK companies in China to deliver low-carbon sustainable built environment technology
27 November 2009
Greenpeace UK has launched a campaign to get Canada to take action to tackle climate change or leave the Commonwealth of Nations.
27 November 2009
The US Green Building Council has agreed to collaborate with the Sierra Club’s Cool Cities Programme