Articles by Nadine M. Post

Jason F. McLennan advances the world’s most audacious environmental standards and leads mission to provide super-sustainable buildings to the needy.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Environmental Center is the first building in the U.S. to get a permit to make potable water from rainwater. That is no small accomplishment. T

One World Trade Center’s 408-ft-tall steel spire, which sits atop the skyscraper’s 1,368-ft superstructure, makes the 1,776-ft-tall One WTC the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth tallest in the world.

Promulgators of the Living Building Challenge, acknowledged as the most demanding certification program for the production of ultragreen buildings, are on a campaign to scale up the size of the projects that register for the rigorous net-zero annual energy- and water-use performance categories.

With the last of the 615 houses in Leveque, Haiti, set to be finished next month, the nonprofit Mission of Hope is moving on to build another village of 100 simple, quake- resistant houses.

Jason F. McLennan thinks of himself as a green warrior.