What happens when the people shaping the future of sustainability all get in one room?
You get answers.
Hear from experts like: â Bill McKibben, 350.org and Third Act â Laura Sullivan, NPR â Andrew Winston, megatrends expert â Lena Hansen, RMI
Follow the link in our bio to get more information and register.
Happy Earth Day. Weâre marking it with something meaningfulâfree access to Green Builder Mediaâs 10th Annual Sustainability Symposium: Systems Reckoning.
On June 3â4, from 12â3 PM ET, weâre bringing together some of the sharpest minds in sustainability, housing, energy, and finance to take on a tough reality: the old models arenât working anymore.
Rising costs. Climate risk. Insurance instability. A growing gap between whatâs being builtâand what people actually need. This is a clear-eyed look at what comes next.
Youâll hear from voices like Bill McKibben, Laura Sullivan, Andrew Winston, and moreâleaders who are actively reshaping the future of the built environment.
Follow the link in our bio and click on the Sustainability Symposium block to learn more and to register.
Green Builder Media and Sekisui House, one of the worldâs most respected and forward-thinking homebuilders, are partnering on the VISION House SHAWOOD to showcase a new valuation metric for housing, Value Per Square Foot, through three advanced performance, climate-resilient communities conceived not simply to shelter, but to enrich lives.
We're analyzing how three of Sekisui's SHAWOOD communitiesâlocated in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area and representing different price points and prospective buyer profilesâmanifest the seven pillars of Value Per Square Foot: energy, water, wellness, resilience, decarbonization, equity and investment, and community.
Follow the link in our bio and click on the VISION House SHAWOOD block to learn more.
Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are on a roll, as changing generational tastes have been boosting interest in living in walkable, vibrant, higher-density communities. Sustainability is also a factor in the increased ADU interest by buyers, renters, and governments â and, ultimately, for builders.
For more on this, follow the link in our bio and click on the Magazine block. This story can be found on page 54 of our January-February 2026 issue.
Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are on a roll, as changing generational tastes have been boosting interest in living in walkable, vibrant, higher-density communities. Sustainability is also a factor in the increased ADU interest by buyers, renters, and governments â and, ultimately, for builders.
For more on this, follow the link in our bio and click on the Magazine block. This story can be found on page 54.
Despite political efforts to roll back product sustainability, product makers keep evolving. This year's top collection of new and improved products suggests that homebuilding's future looks more efficient, more renewable and more durable.
Follow the link in our bio and click on the magazine block to see this and past issues of Green Builder.
You'll find many pathways to performance in our 2026 Green Home of the Year Award Winners. Our panel of judges evaluated projects in terms of overall sustainability, resilience, synergy with the environment, affordability, creativity and the depth of science employed.
Follow the link in our bio and click on the Green Home of the Year Award Winners block to see all our winners.
In this Housing 2.0 webinar, Sam Rashkin will take a clear-eyed look at the gap between offsite constructionâs promise and its reality. If offsite methods truly offer better speed, quality, and efficiency, whatâs holding the industry back?
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Thank you to everyone who participated in our Chocolate Month giveaway!
Congratulations to our winners:
Barry K
Connie V
Chris W
We appreciate all of your entries!
Veteran sustainable architect Nathan Good â a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and one of the earliest LEED APs in the country â says something many in the industry quietly fear but rarely state plainly: The battle to prevent climate change may already be lost. Now we must design for climate disasters. Check out this and other Green Builder Media Network podcasts at the link in our bio.
Whether youâre building a new home or need to replace your roof, consider the merits of metal roofs.
Metal roofing is typically produced using recycled steel and the metal material is 100% recyclable itself. Those factors alone contribute to metal roofs being considered sustainable. But just as important is durability â metal is a long-lasting option, providing decades of protection. That longer life span means less manufacturing energy consumption and less waste in landfills.
Follow the link in our bio and click on the article block to read more about how extreme durability helps make metal roofs sustainable.
At #IBS2026, we caught up with the team behind @aerosealhq AeroBarrier, a full-envelope, whole-house sealing service thatâs basically âFix-a-Flat for a house.â No guesswork, no tedious manual sealing, just an automated process that finds and seals tens of thousands of micro-cracks (from hairline gaps up to ž-inch) in about 90 minutes on average.
The result? Builders can hit performance numbers they didnât think were possible, streamline the build process, and even right-size mechanical systems."
