BLOGS / Green

Living in Western states all my life, the federally imposed 55 mph speed limit on rural freeways was a hassle. Nobody complained when the government de-linked the purse strings of highway dollars from state-set speed limits in the 1980s. Now, 70 an... Read...

Surprised? No. Pleased? Absolutely. When we found out GreenExpo365 won an International Summit Green Marketing Effectiveness Award it reconfirmed to us that our vision is embraced. Not only are we excited about what is happening here, other profe... Read...

Eco-friendly. Good for the planet. Recyclable. Compostable. Biodegradable. What do these terms mean? Are they legitimate? Who's watching out for me? According to the law, each of the claims just mentioned is not only meaningless, but possibly ille... Read...

After the blog yesterday, I received the following email from an interested reader...something to think about:  Ron- Hello Ron: The only way I’ve had any success (limited, I admit) in getting someone to care is to make it personal. Anecd... Read...

Here's an Earth Day challenge from Green Builder Media's website at www.greenbuildermag.com.   Treat every project this year as a seven generation postcard to the future. That may mean making som... Read...

Articles and ads frequently use the terms “green” and “sustainable” interchangeably. Do they really mean the same thing? Sustainable implies a higher threshold and meeting multiple environmental criteria, as well as economic and social factors. To... Read...

Members of the Maryland General Assembly have been busy bees during this 2010 Session and have introduced some interesting bills relating to green building. Here's a synopsis of four of those bills: SB 215, High Performance Buildings... Read...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the recession was one of the best things that could have happened to the environment. Increasing financial limitations have resulted in a changed consumer psyche. Today’s buyers are rethinking their purchasi... Read...

In the late 1990s, I reported on or interviewed about 30 or 40 dot.com companies--BuildView and BuildNet come to mind—who claimed to have internet solutions that would change how the entire home building industry operated. I had to use a big excel sp... Read...

In the decade that brought CB radio slang, disco and Star Wars, the modern environmental movement arose. The color green became the symbol for ecological activism in the 1970s when the U.S. adopted a host of environmental laws, from the Clean Air Ac... Read...