Articles
Read about innovative approaches and revolutionary ideas in sustainable design.
BIM in San Diego
Revit Building makes San Diego's green development faster, better.
Green Means More Than Money
Carol Bartz writes about the necessity of going "green"
The Green House Effect
Wall Street Journal article about sustainable housing
Sustainable Design Forum
News and resources for sustainable design in architecture, development and construction
Natural Remodeling
Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House: Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature by Carol Venolia and Kelly Lerner. Tips for greening your current abode, whatever its vintage and style.
Why Should I Care About Green Building?
iGreenBuild.com answers the top 10 questions about sustainable design
Forbes article on Sustainable Design
Autodesk's own Phil Bernstein expounds on the attributes of buidings that are "Going Green"
MIT Short Energy Course
Presentation materials from recent three-day seminar addressing energy and the environment
Natural Capitalism
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. The first book to explore the lucrative opportunities for businesses in an era of approaching environmental limits
Cradle to Cradle
William McDonough and Michael Braungart. A manifesto calling for the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent design
Ecology of Commerce
Paul Hawken outlines the environmentally destructive aspects of many current business practices, but offers the vision of businesses adopting new practices to pprompte environmental restoration
Ecological Design
Sim Van Der Ryn, Stuart Cowan present a vision of how the living world and the human world can be rejoined by taking ecology as the basis for design. Ecological design intelligence-effective adaptation to and integration with nature's processes-can be applied at all levels of scale, creating revolutionary forms of buildings, landscapes, cities, and technologies
Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture
Alanna Stang, Christopher Hawthorne. In their international survey of contemporary house design, Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne herald the emergence of a new architecture: one that is as aesthetically compelling as it is environmentally friendly
Design for Life
Sim Van Der Ryn. a world leader in the field of sustainable architecture. Sharing his years of experience as a teacher and using his building designs as examples, the author shows us that buildings are not objects but organisms, and cities are not machines but complex ecosystems
Groundscrapers + Subscrapers of Hamzah & Yeang
Ivor Richards. Ken Yeang has made his reputation building the bio-climatically considered skyscraper; more recently he has been discovering the advantages for building horizontally
Rethinking the Skyscraper
Robert Powell. A compelling preview of the world of the twenty-first-century city dweller can be seen in the visionary work of architect Ken Yeang, whose bioclimatic approach to skyscraper design sets new standards for high-rise construction
 | Energy from the sea (pdf - 160Kb) Chris Barry. Alternative energy from the sea: A new paradigm, A call to action |
| | Nature vs Neon article (pdf - 1025Kb) Can sustainable design save money and the environment? By Phillip G. Bernstein |
| | BIM (pdf - 884Kb) Building Information Modeling for Sustainable Design (whitepaper) |
Events
Learn about workshops, seminars, and demonstrations of sustainable design at events around the world.
AIA Events and Conferences
Various green events throughout the year
Building Green
Various green conferences and events
USGBC
Various green conferences and events
Green Festivals
Washington, San Francisco, and Chicago.
Mixed Greens Podcasts
Five part lecture series about sustainable skyscrapers sponsored by Autodesk.
William McDonough Podcast
Autodesk sponsored William McDonough’s lecture, Cradle to Cradle: A World of Good Design at Yale University.