Charles Library boasts one of Pennsylvania's largest green roofs
Contemporary, sustainable and welcoming, Temple University's new Charles Library in Philadelphia raises the bar...
Striking LEED Silver-targeted tower to rise in the heart of Philadelphia
The heart of Philadelphia will soon be transformed with Schuylkill Yards, a $3.5 billion masterplanned neighborhood...
The net-zero Frick Environmental Center is officially one of the world’s greenest buildings
The Frick Environmental Center (FEC) in Pittsburgh just became the first municipally owned building in the U.S....
Nuns build open-air chapel to protest natural gas pipeline on their land
Battles against fossil fuel pipelines aren't limited to North Dakota. In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a group...
Fresh food prescriptions given to low-income patients to help combat disease
What if instead of prescribing medicine to treat a disease, doctors could prescribe fresh food to help prevent...
Uber launching self-driving cars in Pittsburgh this month
Uber has been quietly working on research and development for its own self-driving cars, and the first units in...
Steven Holl's minimalist new visual arts center reflects the beauty of old-growth trees
Related: 7 Questions with architect Steven Holl The SHA-designed visual arts building will have many purposes...
Phipps Center for Sustainable Landscapes achieves Living Building Challenge certification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG1srhdIZHk Phipps' Center for Sustainable Landscapes (CSL) has reached a historical...
The Keystone XL battle should be about food security and climate change, not economics
As we await President Obama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline, expected later today, news outlets far and wide...
Abandoned oil and gas wells are leaking methane across the USA
After the State of the Union Address and the touting of the abundance of our natural resources, you'd probably...
New York's fracking ban is the cue for eco-activists to mobilize
The ban on fracking in New York State is a great catalyst to inspire grassroots environmental groups to come together....
New York just banned fracking!
New York just became the first state with sizable shale gas reserves in the United States to ban fracking. In a...
Pittsburgh's Net-Zero Energy Center for Sustainable Landscapes Blows Fracking Out of the Water
If you think of the greenest building imaginable, then you are imagining what Phipps' CSL is like. In addition...
Stop the Cove Point Natural Gas Terminal From Exporting Our Energy Independence!
By allowing Cove Point Export Terminal to be built, the U.S. would be forfeiting energy independence and committing...
Fire in the Sky: Devastation in the Shalefields
Natural gas flaring is basically another excuse for the oil and gas industry to avoid proper regulation and do...
