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Sustainable Solutions to Silicon Valley’s Housing Bubble

Megan Wild buildings, California, density, disuse, home, housing, land, landfill, median, Palo Alto, price, rehab, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, space, vacant

Building on landfills? Rehabbing Old Buildings? Planning for Greater Density? These are among the sustainable solutions some planners would like to see put in place to solve the housing crisis in Northern California…

Sustainable Cities

How to Prepare Buildings for Changing Climate Conditions in 2018

Megan Wild 2030 Challenge, buildings, certified, city, climate, construction, green, infrastructure, LEED, mitigation, urban

The 2030 Challenge sets the goal of carbon-neutral buildings within the next 12 years, and we have a lot of work to do to get there….

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