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apartment buildings stymie ny's climate progress

What’s holding up New York’s climate progress? Apartment buildings.

Many New York apartment buildings have less than a year to get in line with an ambitious climate mandate, or risk facing millions of dollars in penalties.
The U.S.'s first carbon-positive hotel comes with a forest

The U.S.'s first carbon-positive hotel comes with a forest

Its architecture, designed to reduce heating and cooling needs, takes inspiration from Colorado’s native aspen trees.
These smart windows could one day help heat and cool your house

These smart windows could one day help heat and cool your house

By changing the amount of heat—but not light—the windows can act as automatic temperature control.
This old coal power plant will be transformed into a 15-minute neighborhood

This old coal power plant will be transformed into a 15-minute neighborhood

Residents will be able to walk or bike to work, to stores, and the newly accessible lake front.
Why do Americans like it to be 72 degrees inside?

Why do Americans like it to be 72 degrees inside?

Shifting cultural assumptions about the ‘right’ indoor temperature could save us incredible amounts of energy—and let us fundamentally rethink how we design offices.
How to make the suburbs more environmentally friendly

How to make the suburbs more environmentally friendly

As people move out of dense cities and into sprawling suburbs, their carbon footprint could actually increase.
Empire State, big New York City buildings aim to cut carbon footprints

Empire State, big New York City buildings aim to cut carbon footprints

New York’s most famous skyscraper shrank its planet-warming emissions by 40 percent. Can the rest of the city do the same?
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