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December 29, 2025

COP30 and Emerging Global Trends in Resilient Infrastructure, Renewable Energy, and Climate Finance 

November 19, 2025

Brazil’s Lula Makes Diplomatic Push for Early Climate Deal at COP30 Summit

November 11, 2025

LA Will Double its Wastewater Recycling Capacity to Serve Half a Million Residents

November 10, 2025

NYC Ferry Redesigns Routes, Plans New East Harlem and South Brooklyn Stations

November 10, 2025

A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics

November 10, 2025

China is Building the World’s First Underwater, Wind-Fueled Data Center

November 09, 2025

After Jamaica’s Disastrous Storm, Solar Power Is a Bright Spot

October 31, 2025

Cities in Amazonia: Unlocking Prosperity and Protecting Ecosystems

October 29, 2025

Shane Jensen on the Price Effects of Greening Vacant Lots

October 21, 2025

Green Bank’s New Resilience Financing Tool in Suburban Maryland

October 20, 2025

From Liability to Asset: How Water Reuse Is Transforming Property Economics

October 09, 2025

LA is Finally Tackling its Concrete Problem

October 09, 2025

Bloomberg Philanthropies Names 26 Cities as Finalists for the 2025 Local Leaders Awards

October 08, 2025

How Voluntary Carbon Markets Can Reshape Real Estate’s Sustainability Playbook

September 30, 2025

‘Fish-Friendly’ Washington Development Blends Affordability and Sustainability

September 24, 2025

$3.5B Brooklyn Marine Terminal Vision Plan Approved In Red Hook, Brooklyn

September 24, 2025

Lexington’s Housing Boom Proves Green Building Policies Don’t Slow Development

September 23, 2025

IDB Group Launches Reinvest+: Going Where the Money Is to Unlock Private Climate Finance

September 22, 2025

California’s Key Environmental Law Is Blocking Its Path to Carbon Neutrality

September 16, 2025

AI Is Going to Consume a Lot of Energy. It Can Also Help Us Consume Less

September 11, 2025

Rating Agencies Give $991 Million in MTA Green Bonds High Marks

September 11, 2025

Strategic Framework for the Integration of Compressed Adobe Bricks (CABs) into Sustainable Urban Housing Design and Construction Practices in Lagos State, Nigeria

September 10, 2025

Lima Presents Historic Advances in Sustainable Mobility and Air Quality With International Support

September 09, 2025

Multilateral Development Banks Hit Record $137 Billion in Climate Financing to Drive Sustainable Development Worldwide

September 05, 2025

Advancing Materials Procurement Processes in Construction: A Framework for Optimizing Technology Integration in SMEs’ Construction Supply Chains

August 29, 2025

The Future of Trash Pickup, From Self-Driving Bins to AI-Powered Sorting

August 21, 2025

The Fix for Solar Power Blackouts Is Already Here

August 16, 2025

A Startup Is Tapping Underground Parking Garages for Clean Energy

August 05, 2025

Leveraging Adaptive Building Forms to Enhance Operational Efficiency in Selected Four-Star Hotels in Lagos, Nigeria

July 26, 2025

Opinion | Is Decarbonization Dead?

July 11, 2025

Does Brooklyn Need a New Waterfront Neighborhood?

July 01, 2025

The Renewable-Energy Sector’s Relative Winners and Losers in the Megabill

June 05, 2025

Adaptive Recycled Plastic Architecture: Vacuum-Sealed Chainmail Structures Through Computational Design

February 07, 2025

Council targets Local Law 97 energy credits ‘loophole’

April 21, 2024

WSJ: Underground Thermal Energy Networks May Be About to Have Their Moment

April 19, 2024

Crain’s: Brooklyn Navy Yard seeks new ideas for empty manufacturing space

April 19, 2024

NYT: Greece Announces New Plan to Protect Some of Its Pristine Beaches

April 19, 2024

NYT: Biden Shields Millions of Acres of Alaskan Wilderness From Drilling and Mining

April 19, 2024

NYT: Chinese Export Surge Clouds U.S. Hopes of a Domestic Solar Boom

April 19, 2024

NYT: Scotland Made Big Climate Pledges. Now They’re ‘Out of Reach.’

April 19, 2024

WSJ: Bezos Earth Fund Commits to Continue Financing Climate Targets Group

April 19, 2024

WSJ: The Push to Store Renewable Energy in Massive Salt Caverns

April 18, 2024

Crain’s: New York’s first electric skyscraper promises luxury with lower emissions

April 18, 2024

NYT: Biden Administration Announces Rule to Strengthen Protection of Public Lands

April 18, 2024

NYT: Drought Pushes Millions Into ‘Acute Hunger’ in Southern Africa

April 18, 2024

NYT: The Missing $1 Trillion

April 18, 2024

NYT: Hot Oceans Worsened Dubai’s Dramatic Flooding, Scientists Say

April 18, 2024

NYT: China’s Cities Are Sinking Below Sea Level, Study Finds

April 17, 2024

NYT: What Can ‘Green Islam’ Achieve in the World’s Largest Muslim Country?

April 17, 2024

WSJ: How to Make Climate Progress: Tie It to CEO Pay

April 16, 2024

The Economist: China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry

April 16, 2024

NYT: Interior Said to Reject Industrial Road Through Alaskan Wilderness

April 15, 2024

NYT: Al Gore Thinks Trump Will Lose and Climate Activists Will Triumph

April 15, 2024

NYT: The Widest-Ever Global Coral Crisis Will Hit Within Weeks, Scientists Say

March 27, 2024

WSJ: Construction Firms Go Circular as They Try to Meet Demand for Greener Office Buildings

March 16, 2024

NYT: In Paris, the Olympics Clean Up Their Act

March 16, 2024

WSJ: “Private Developers Explore Affordable Housing Without Public Funds”

March 13, 2024

WSJ: Corporate Bond Issuance Is Booming—but Not Sustainability-Linked Bonds

March 08, 2024

Crain’s: Midtown rezoning would create 4,000 homes, Adams administration says

March 07, 2024

Crain’s: Uber teams up with Revel to boost city’s EV charging network

March 07, 2024

The Economist: Why Africa is crypto’s next frontier

March 06, 2024

Crain’s: Mayor’s business-boosting zoning plan advances to final stage, with some tweaks

March 04, 2024

WSJ: Forest Investors Debate What to Do With All Their Trees: Time or Carbon Credits?

March 04, 2024

Crain’s: City says no more Uber, Lyft vehicles needed after surge of electric taxi licenses

March 01, 2024

NYT: An Architect Build Toward the Future on Mexico’s Border

February 23, 2024

NYT: Millions of Fund Investors Are Getting A Voice

January 27, 2024

WSJ: For the Osage, This Century’s Fight Is Over Wind Turbines

January 26, 2024

WSJ: Bipartisan Backing to Explore Fast Tracking Solar and Wind on Oil-And-Gas Lands

January 26, 2024

NYT: Biden Administration Faces Pushback on Another Gas Project, This Time Overseas

January 25, 2024

WSJ: Forget the Term ‘ESG.’ But Don’t Ignore the Power of the Concept.

January 25, 2024

WSJ: Tesla Makes It Harder for Investors to Ignore Its Problems

January 25, 2024

The Economist: Can MSCI drag private markets out of the shadows?

January 25, 2024

The Economist: Could AI transform life in developing countries?

January 25, 2024

The Economist: Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices are changing

January 25, 2024

Crain’s: What to know about New York’s nascent offshore wind industry

January 25, 2024

Crain’s: New York eyes joining with nearby states to regionally plan offshore wind projects

January 25, 2024

Crain’s: New York’s offshore wind industry faces a financial reckoning

January 24, 2024

WSJ: Some Private-Equity Firms Stick With Natural Gas Despite Climate Concerns

January 24, 2024

WSJ: Global Emissions From Electricity Set to Fall Even as Power Demand Climbs, IEA Predicts

January 24, 2024

Crain’s: Adams demands housing help, leans on allies in State of the City speech

January 23, 2024

WSJ: Desperate Chinese Property Developers Resort to Bizarre Marketing Tactics

January 23, 2024

WSJ: Rio Tinto Inks Power Deal With European Energy for Giant Australia Solar Farm

January 23, 2024

The Economist: Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?

January 23, 2024

NYT: ‘We’re All Climate Economists Now’

January 23, 2024

NYT: To Slash Carbon Emissions, Colleges Are Digging Really Deep

January 22, 2024

NYT: Reading, Writing, Math … and Climate Change?

December 31, 2023

WSJ: Why Manufacturing Is in a Slump, Despite Signs of a Renaissance

December 31, 2023

WSJ: Volkswagen’s Elusive Quest to Make an EV for the Masses

December 30, 2023

NYT: Electrify All the Big, Noisy, Belching Trucks

December 30, 2023

NYT: I Want a City, Not a Museum

December 30, 2023

NYT: How to Make Room for One Million New Yorkers

December 29, 2023

Crain’s: Congestion pricing clears final hurdles as launch nears in early 2024

December 28, 2023

NYT: San Francisco’s Montgomery Street Could Signal a Downtown Revival

December 28, 2023

WSJ: India’s Infrastructure Push Is Key to Taking on China

December 28, 2023

WSJ: A Fracker Tries to Produce ‘Guilt-Free’ Gas

December 27, 2023

WSJ: Can America Reach Its Clean Energy Goals? Here’s Where It Stands

December 19, 2023

NYT: California Allows Wastewater to Be Recycled Into Drinking Water

December 18, 2023

WSJ: The Impossible Energy ‘Transition’

November 20, 2023

Crain’s Editorial: Mapping a truck route plan in which business and health needs coexist

November 17, 2023

NYT: China Wants to Bulldoze Old Neighborhoods to Revive the Economy

November 16, 2023

Crain’s: Remote work continues to shape the city

November 15, 2023

Crain’s: Citi Bike service is unreliable in low-income neighborhoods: comptroller report

November 14, 2023

WSJ: How Two of America’s Wealthiest Vacation Spots Are Fighting to Free Up Homes for Locals

November 14, 2023

Crain’s: Amtrak snafu sharpens focus on buildings over train tracks

November 14, 2023

NYT: U.S. and China Agree to Displace Fossil Fuels by Ramping Up Renewables

November 13, 2023

WSJ: China’s Spending on Green Energy Is Causing a Global Glut

November 13, 2023

Crain’s: The Manhattan Downtown Heliport aims to be the country’s first electric air taxi hub

November 13, 2023

Crain’s: It’s boom times for startups trying to electrify aviation

November 13, 2023

NYT: Polluting Industries Say the Cost of Cleaner Air Is Too High

November 13, 2023

NYT: Exxon Mobil Plans to Produce Lithium in Arkansas

October 17, 2023

The New York Times: Electric Grids Are a Hidden Weak Spot in World’s Climate Plans, Report Warns

October 17, 2023

NYT: As Coal Plants Shutter, a Chance to Redevelop ‘the Gates of Hell’

September 27, 2023

NYT: Climate Change and The Rise of Energy Efficient Buildings

September 21, 2023

NYT: In Yards, Offices and Basements, New York Hopes to Build 100,000 Homes

September 18, 2023

How to Cool Down a City

August 31, 2023

WSJ: Artificial Intelligence Steps In to Lower Carbon Footprint of Buildings

August 17, 2023

NYT: New Top Cop at the E.P.A. Aims to Get Enforcement Back on Track

July 28, 2023

REUTERS: White House unveils proposed reforms to speed clean energy permitting

July 25, 2023

WSJ: Pouring Ice Into Concrete: Builders Adapt to Extreme Heat

July 21, 2023

NYT: New Yorkers Got Broken Promises. Developers Got 20 Million Sq. Ft.

July 21, 2023

Crain’s Editorial: City Council’s misguided voucher expansion misses the mark

July 21, 2023

Crain’s: Hefty utility increases set to hit New Yorkers’ wallets in August

July 20, 2023

WSJ: How AI Might Change the Way We Supply and Consume Energy

July 20, 2023

WSJ: The Biggest Winners in America’s Climate Law: Foreign Companies

July 20, 2023

Crain’s: Comptroller blasts BlackRock for picking oil exec for board

July 20, 2023

The Economist: Letters to the editor: On deep-sea mining, water regulation in Britain, the Italian left, working from home

July 19, 2023

The Economist: As Spain prepares to vote, its Socialist prime minister sets out the case for continuity

July 18, 2023

The Economist: Tesla’s surprising new route to EV domination

July 18, 2023

The Economist: Why Africa is poised to become a big player in energy markets

July 06, 2023

WSJ: New York State Built Elon Musk a $1 Billion Factory. ‘It Was a Bad Deal.’

July 05, 2023

WSJ: Utility Companies Sell Wind, Solar Farms to Shore Up U.S. Power Grid

July 04, 2023

NYT: Corporate Landscaping Opts for Native Plants Over Manicured Lawns

June 28, 2023

New York State Government: Governor Hochul Announces $18 Million Next Generation Buildings Innovation Challenges for Advanced Building Technologies

June 02, 2023

NYT: American Cities Are Thriving Again

May 21, 2023

Economist: Can carbon removal become a trillion-dollar business?

May 08, 2023

Crain’s New York: New York just took a landmark step toward publicly owned renewable energy

April 27, 2023

Washington Post: New York set to pass first statewide law banning gas in new construction

April 25, 2023

Bloomberg: How to Fix Crumbling Child Care Infrastructure

April 25, 2023

WRAL Tech Wire: Duke U. joins IBM, other partners in creating NY ‘Climate Exchange’ research center