The Qatar Green Building Council is ramping up green building efforts with a punch that far outsizes the amount of space the country takes on the Arabian Peninsula.

Accor, a leading hotel chain that owns a bevy of chains including Motel 6, is ramping up their corporate social responsibility efforts. Employee engagement and water stewardship are among the initiatives.

Whether they benefit from visionary leaders, flourishing social enterprise, or commitment from community activists, the following 10 cities are well worth a visit to experience their transformation and resilience.

With 75 percent of Serbia’s buildings built before 1980, a lot of work on retrofits and energy efficiency remains to be done. Ecoist is pushing Serbia in that direction.

Avon’s CSR report, released earlier this week, touts a bevy of achievements and promises to address issues including deforestation, governance and philanthropy.

As Qatar marches towards increased sustainable development, another new venue has opened that will make much of the world’s civic leaders green with envy.

the United Nations selected Qatar to host the COP 18 Summit next year in Doha. Considering Qatar’s moves on the sustainability front, the decision is the right one.

On the green building and construction front, the Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) is taking a very aggressive and strategic approach.

My latest article on Guardian Sustainable Business offers cement and concrete as sustainable green building alternatives.

Few buildings today would be able to withstand any deluge after a catastrophic volcanic eruption and subsequent burial for thousands of years. Pompeii offers a lesson.

Loved and hated by many, Brasília, the fifty-one year old brainchild of Juscelino Kubitschek, Oscar Niemeyer, and Lucio Costa, is slowly undergoing a green building makeover.

With its goals to be off of the water grid, carbon neutral, and composting of all of its sewage, the Bullitt Foundation’s future home in Seattle could redefine our definition of “green building.”