By: Stephanie Barr, Research Associate and Green Schools Specialist In a recent report from MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group[1], the number of companies implementing and profiting from sustainability initiatives has increased significantly in recent years. Sustainability …
By: Becky Moriarty, Sustainable Building Associate LEED version 4 is slowly, but surely on its way. USGBC surprised the industry when it announced last June that it was postponing the release of its latest version of LEED. According to an …
By: Colin Day, Sustainable Building Associate The 21st century will likely be, amongst other things, the century of the city. And the nature of cities, so to speak, is changing. With a projected world population of 9 billion by 2050, …
Although the year has already begun, have you started or considered a New Year resolution yet? It isn’t too late to start one, or add more things to your current resolution! Start off 2013 with being green and keeping sustainability …
By: Aaron Wagner, Sustainable Building Associate M.S. Landscape Architecture As humans move to live in more in cities, we have had to rethink how cities are designed and incorporate more natural systems into the basic infrastructure. Ecosystem services are one …
The holidays are here! Please enjoy this article from Treehugger that gives you great GREEN holiday gift ideas! Oh the perfect gift! It’s easy to find right? (Insert record screech here). Well no, not exactly. So let us do that …
By: Becky Moriarty, Sustainable Building Associate M.S. Construction Management Aside from being a construction management graduate student and a green building consultant at IBE, I also work for the City of Fort Collins FC Bikes program. People are generally intrigued …
By: Josie Plaut,Associate Director Over the past 10 years businesses has taken a notable interest in the idea of sustainability. From Fortune 500 companies to small firms and boutique operations, everybody wants to be green. Some companies and organizations, of …
By: Sam Hartley, Sustainable Living Associate M.S. Interior Design IBE (Institute for the Built Environment) has been given the opportunity to represent SoGES (School of Global Environmental Sustainability) in the Blue Dot Demonstration/Research House, which will be built on …
By: Erin Nuckols, Sustainable Building Associate M.A. History At the Association for Preservation Trades / Preservation Trades Network joint conference in Charleston, South Carolina, I attended a session under the auspice of “Sustainable Preservation.” Little did I know, I had …
