A countertop made from a composite of recycled, compressed paper costs about the same as one made of granite. In his small way, Michael Schaeffer hopes to change that. Schaeffer, a longtime California ...

Green Builder Media recently announced its 2015 Eco-Leaders report naming nine outstanding companies who are paving the way towards sustainability. This year's Eco-Leaders have developed business ...

Regardless of the position of the current administration or politicians at a local and state level, consumers are increasingly concerned about climate change and the effect it will have on our ...

DTLA - In April, the Houston-based developer Hanover Company opened its third in a series of seven-story Downtown Los Angeles apartment buildings. The 263-unit Hanover Olympic, designed by ...

There was a time when saving gas required as horrible a sacrifice as squeezing behind the wheel of a rattling Pinto. Healthy eating used to mean holding our noses while Mom forced us to eat some ...

Trends come and go in the construction industry. But these days, according to local building pros, those trends are less about accent walls and open floor plans, and more about being green. “The ...

Home builders would have called it risky to put up eco-friendly homes 15 years ago. The costs to build that way were too high. Today, some of the area’s thriftiest home builders consider it risky not ...