Tag: Green Building
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Inside Northwestern's Off-the-Grid Tiny House
Northwestern's Tiny House Project shows how we can live smaller and more sustainable.
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LEED Bashing: Plastic People Join The Lumber Industry in Trying To Get The Feds To Drop LEED
The plastics industry and the US Chamber of Commerce gang up to kill green building
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Natural Gas Industry Worried Green Building Regs Will Damage Its Reputation
The American Gas Association has been aggressively lobbying against efforts to zero-out fossil fuel use in federal buildings. It's painfully typical corporate behavior.
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Perennial Wood Lasts At Least 25 Years Without Toxic Chemical Treatment
The answer to the problem of pressure treated lumber is vinegar.
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Prefabricated Cantilevered Stairs Are "The Maximum In Minimalism"
Now anyone can have those gorgeous cantilevered stairs that break every building code.
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Tiny, Rundown Attic Space Becomes Stunning Rooftop Apartment
This Barcelona apartment shows that a little vision can create luxury in the unlikeliest of spaces.
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Wood Construction Can Last A Long Time
In Bologna, Italy, it has been doing the job for 800 years.
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Cross Laminated Timber is Ready for Prime Time
They are using this fabulous tech all over Europe. Why are we taking so long in North America, when the trees are dying?
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Top Airline Executive Creates Tiny, "Treehouse" Home
A leading airline executive builds a tiny, rustic retreat with no electricity or running water.
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Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre Goes Greener
Convention Centres are Huge Consumers of everything and generators of waste. Here is one that appears to address it seriously.
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Seventies Back-to-the-Land Pioneer Explores the Tiny House Movement
A former shelter editor for the Whole Earth Catalog discusses the new wave of the tiny house movement.
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Long House by Hopkins Architects is both Modern and Medieval
High tech meets old fashioned craft in this holiday house in the UK.
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Bubble Deck Technology Uses Less Concrete by Filing The Slab With Beach Balls
This is a really clever idea that takes out all the stuff in the middle that you don't really need, and replacing it with air.
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Happy 3rd Anniversary David Brower Center! How a Building Can Build Community
The David Brower Center Serves As A Model For How A Building Can Be an Epicenter of Education and Activism for A Community
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Koby Cottage "Represents a Revolution in Modular Construction"
It is a few years old but a real find. We probably won't see the likes of it again for a while.
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Hostal Empúries, More Than Just the First Hotel in Europe with LEED Gold Certification (Photos)
This is not just a gorgeous hotel on the Spanish coast, it is also the first LEED certified Hotel in Europe. From water and energy saving to growing their own vegetable these guys are serious when it comes to protecting the environment and having a blast.
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Flame Retardants May Kill More Than They Save
It's time to rethink our practice of adding dangerous chemicals to combustible plastics and putting them in our houses.
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What's Wrong With This Picture? It's Called "Sustainable" and "Holistic Green Building."
The brick industry better get their stories straight and think before they hit send.
