Award winning business magazine – Sustainable Industries – has released its list of the Top 10 Green Building Products of 2009, with selections based upon environmental performance, originality, visual design, cost, congruency with LEED certification standards and market influence. “In the four years Sustainable Industries has produced this trusted and popular independent guide, green building has advanced to the mainstream,” says Brian Back, Founding Editor & Publisher of Sustainable Industries. “We’re confident the Top 10…

The Sears Tower in Chicago, measuring an astounding 1,450 feet, will be given a $350 million green retrofit to turn the 110 story structure into a sustainable, conservational place of business. The project plans require the tower to decrease energy utilization by 80 percent and water consumption by 40 percent. To achieve these goals, title-holder American Landmark Properties and associates plan on exchanging the structure’s 16,000 tinted single pane windows to form a thermal break between…

The first sign to show real-time quantity measurements of greenhouse gases trapped in the earth’s atmosphere has been erected in New York’s Madison Square Garden. The sign is about 7 stories tall, was established by Deutsche Bank and developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

It seems that in the midst of our deteriorating economy and environment, many large corporations are making the switch to renewable energy. The reasons are plenty; tax credits for energy saved, possibility to hold onto excess power and distribute to energy companies for a profit, and not to mention, added publicity from their change to sustainable green energy. The hotel chain recently earned green lodging certification…