Buildings are responsible for 50% of C02 emissions and their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or more ecologically and being able to assemble the social resources to do so.

1. Introduction: The Paradoxes of Sustainable Architecture 2. Re-Interpreting Green Design: Beyond Performance and Ideology 3. Theory, Practice, and Proof: Learning from 'Buildings that Teach' 4. The Social Construction of 'Green Building' Codes: Competing Models by Industry, Government, and NGOs 5. The Politics of Design in Cities: Preconceptions, Frameworks and Trajectories of Sustainable Building 6. Equal Couples in Equal Houses: Cultural Perspectives on Swedish Solar and Bio-Pellet Heating Design 7. Safe Houses and Green Architecture: Reflections on the Lessons of the Chemically Sensitive 8. Revaluing Wood 9. Policing Sustainability: Strategies Towards a Sustainable Architecture in Norway 10. Green Buildings in Denmark - From Radical Ecology to Consumer-oriented Market Approaches? 11. Leaky Walls: Challenges to Sustainable Practices in Post-Disaster Communities. 12. Social Research on Energy-Efficient Building Technologies: Towards a Sociotechnical Integration 13. Conclusion. Reflections and Engagement: Towards Pluralists Practices of Sustainable Architecture