With a $30 million grant from The Home Depot Foundation, 123 Habitat affiliates representing 45 states will construct homes to the standards of Energy Star or more rigid national or regional green building standards.

Questioning TV’s “peacocky” green homes, West Virginia launches Energy Star sales tax holiday, green builders get creative, college students flock to sustainable studies, and other green building news from around the Web.

Southern California Edison officials signed 20-year contracts with First Solar to purchase power from a 250-megawatt facility planned near Desert Center in Riverside County and a 300-megawatt plant called Stateline planned near the Nevada border in northeast San Bernardino County.

Mayor Mike Moncrief and some Fort Worth City Council members said they do not like a plan by A Place to Sleep, a Tarrant County-based nonprofit, to create homes from steel cargo boxes. "It's not going to attract anything around it except problems," Moncrief said during a briefing by city staff.

EcoHome Editor Jean Dimeo discusses the latest trends in building products.

Unlike “green,” energy efficiency is something that home buyers can understand, process, and wrap their heads around. Here are 10 tactics that are guaranteed to work without breaking the bank.

EcoHome checks in with Atlanta green builder Monte Hewett, whose commitment to sustainability—which began literally overnight and now includes constructing all of his homes to EarthCraft standards—is rooted in a belief of doing the right thing.

A neighborhood's walkability can make a significant difference in the selling price of otherwise similar homes, according to a new study by the advocacy group CEOs for Cities.