Stopped short: Disappointing green jobs market hinders outreach to women

Romney’s green-jobs criticism carries risks

Published: August 7, 2012
Tags: green, Solyndra, wind energy

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has been savaging what it calls President Barack Obama’s “unhealthy” obsession with “green jobs.”

Milwaukee commission gives go-ahead for green apartment building

Published: July 9, 2012
Tags: apartments, City Plan Commission, Dominion Properties, green, Joel Agacki, Lightweight Structures, Nature Tech, Striegel-Agacki Studio

The City Plan Commission on Monday approved plans for a five-story, 20-unit apartment building on a vacant site at 1509 N. Jackson St., Milwaukee.

LEED-certified green building projects hit 12K mark

Published: March 27, 2012
Tags: green, LEED, U.S. Green Building Council, USGBC

The U.S. Green Building Council announced Tuesday the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Texas is the 12,000th commercial project to receive LEED certification, according to a U.S. Green Building Council news release.

LEED construction poses more injury risks, researchers say

Published: March 23, 2012
Tags: green, LEED, USGBC

Could efforts to go green leave the construction industry with a black eye?

Taliesin could get green makeover

Published: February 24, 2012
Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, green, Taliesin

Frank Lloyd Wright’s strong appreciation and respect for nature factored heavily into his designs for hundreds of structures.

Green roofs shelve the shingles

Published: November 1, 2011
Tags: green, Minnesota Green Roofs Council, roof, roofing, runoff

So-called green roofs have been hailed as one of the most effective tools to reduce the negative environmental effects of conventional buildings.

Report says green jobs program far short of goals (UPDATE)

Published: October 3, 2011
Tags: energy efficiency, green, jobs, Labor Department, renewable energy

By SAM HANANEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – A $500 million Labor Department program designed to train workers for green jobs has come up far short of its goals, with only 10 percent of participants finding work so far, the agency’s assistant inspector general has found. The report said the low rate makes it unlikely [...]

Madison, Racine projects in ‘Green’ Top 10

Published: April 16, 2011
Tags: AIA, American Institute of Architects, energy efficiency, First Unitarian Society Meeting House, green, OS House

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The American Institute of Architects says two of the nation’s top-10 green projects for 2011 are in Wisconsin. One is an addition to the First Unitarian Society Meeting House in Madison. The structure is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Nationals Historic Landmark Meeting House first completed in 1951 before undergoing a 20,000-square foot [...]

5 things you should know about Michael Arny

Published: January 31, 2011
Tags: green, green building, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, LEED, Leonardo Academy, Michael Arny, U.S. Green Building Council, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USGBC

“For most organizations, buildings are their biggest asset, so why wouldn’t you want to know if it’s certified or not?”