Tag: green buildings

• July 12, 2026

  Denis Hayes

  Organizer of the First Earth Day When Denis Hayes climbed onto the speaker’s platform in Manhattan in April 1970, the crowd on 5th Avenue stretched as far as he could see. The first Earth Day had struck a nerve, drawing 20 million participants nationwide. A few months earlier he’d been a 24-year-old student at Harvard’s Kennedy…
• November 24, 2025

  Jason F. McLennan

  From a Past of Extraction to a Future of Regeneration Jason F. McLennan is one of the most influential figures in sustainable architecture, the creator of the Living Building Challenge and a catalyst behind some of the greenest buildings on the planet. He lives here on Bainbridge Island, where we both call home, yet his…