The California Academy of Sciences just opened this new building which may be the greenest building in the world. I like the looks of the thing, but the way this building works is even more amazing. The level of both innovation and design that went into it puts it way on top of my WOW list. There are tons of reviews of the building [here's one]. For example, the roof is a field or lawn with over 1.7 million native plants that insulate the building, capture rainwater, and provide a 2.5-acre habitat for butter flies, hummingbirds, and other critters. Inside, you can see the outside from almost any location and shredded blue jeans insulate the walls. And there are 60,000 photovoltaic cells along the roof's edge to provide electric power. Even tearing down the old building was an exercise in greenery: The 12,000 tons of old steel & concrete were recycled.
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