In honor of Climate Week and World Green Building Day, I thought I would highlight several internationally oriented articles.World Green Building Daycoincides with the UN General Assembly meeting in New York City, which is celebrating Climate Week by creating general gridlock in Manhattan for an entire week, thereby significantly raising CO2 mitigation requirements for future generations.

Changing the rules -- so long as the infrastructure exists to enforce those rules -- is the most effective leverage point in the "conventional" toolkit of effecting change.

There are definitely some very cool things coming down the pike in terms of materials, many of which are "available" in the market -- just not at anything resembling market prices.