+ Detroit Green City
From grassroots efforts to industry leaders, Detroit’s future looks green and bright. We take a fresh look at the city known for its financial collapse and blight. But, can a place built on the back of the internal combustion engine really become a hotbed of green development?
+ Reaching New Heights
Sustainable design is central to One World Trade Center’s development, which integrates renewable energy, interior daylighting, reuse of rainwater, and recycled construction debris and materials.
+ Lofty Idea
At home and abroad, adaptive reuse of buildings into micro lofts prove to be innovative housing models that offer access to urban amenities.
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The Detroit Industry fresco was conceived by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in 1932-1933 as a tribute to the city’s manufacturing base and labor force of the 1930s. The cover selection is a detail of the south wall. Courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts
LEED impact categories
+ ecosystems
A certified sustainable site, American University’s School of International Service manifests the school’s values
+ green economy
Bank of America offers the first corporate Green Bond in the U.S.
+ human health
Henry Chao discusses healthy buildings for HOK’s global architectural practice
+ sustainable materials
Designers are reaching for a way to illuminate the unseen health hazards and environmental footprint of building materials
departments
+ LEED ON
Letter from our leaders
+ community
The Detroit Public Schools and the regional chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council work together to promote environmentalism
+ advocacy
Cincinnati becomes an incubator of green home policy innovation
+ product innovation
Future-facing green technology
+ global pulse
Top 10 countries for LEED outside the U.S.
Detroit Industry, North Wall, 1932-33 (fresco), Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) | Detroit Institute of Arts, USA / Gift of Edsel B. Ford / The Bridgeman Art Library