Tag: Greenbuild - Page 2
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Buildup To Greenbuild: Green Buildings From TreeHugger Archives
There has been a lot of green building going on in Toronto and much has shown up on TreeHugger; Here is a roundup of
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Buildup To Greenbuild: Sites To See
It is hard to know what is going on, where to go and what to do when you show up in a city. In Toronto, it is amazing
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Buildup To Greenbuild: The War In The Woods Heats Up
Last year at Greenbuild, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) made a big splash, having just come off a big victory at the US Green Building Council, where they maintained their status as the only wood that gets a point under LEED. They built a
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Buildup To Greenbuild: A Waterfront Of Broken Dreams
Greenbuild is being held in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, which is a long way from the waterfront. In fact,
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Building Up To Greenbuild: Bring Your Hardhat And Watch Out For Raining Panes
A hundred years ago, the walls of Toronto's stone and brick buildings probably had average R-value of 4; today, it has
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Buildup to Greenbuild: A New Vision For The Toronto Waterfront
This series is going to be about what people can actually see and do in Toronto, but a
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Buildup To Greenbuild: The Green Roofs of Toronto
All images credit Lloyd Alter unless otherwise noted. Greenbuild, the huge green building conference put on by the US Green Building Council, is coming to my home town, Toronto, next month. As many as 30,000 American builders, designers, manufacturers
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10,000 Buildings Now Certified Under LEED. That's Amazing.
When you go Greenbuild, you can always tell who works for the US Green Building Council, which runs LEED; the architects and builders are in jeans, and the USGBC people are in
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Green Design Furniture's Sustainable Stunning Standing Desk
I first met Douglas Green and his eponymous company Green Design Furniture at GreenBuild in 2008, a logical place for him to be with such a name. Then I admired the way he builds, and now I admire his new standing desk. Image credit Lloyd Alter
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Exclusive Look Inside Michelle Kaufmann's 2010 Smart Home in Chicago (Slideshow)
TreeHugger first covered architect Michelle Kaufmann's Smart Home at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago in 2008 with a guest post by Brian Jones.
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Three Green Building Lawyer Bloggers Predict The Next Big Thing
I follow the three leading bloggers on green building law closely; they make complicated and important issues affecting green building comprehensible. When I saw that they were all on a
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100K House From Postgreen Wins LEED Project of the Year
I thought we were being edgy when we gave Interface Studio Architects the Best Residential Architect Award as part of Best of Green this year, but I could not help but love the 100K house. Evidently neither could the US Green
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Planet Reuse: A Dating Service For Used Materials
There are some things that the Internet is very good at, including helping put people and people or things and things together. Nathan Benjamin runs a dating service for materials, putting people together with the used
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Is A Green Parking Garage Like A Kosher Ham?
Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, wonders if a green parking garage is really an oxymoron, like "kosher ham, a peacekeeping missile, or the World Series-winning Cubs." He looks at the HOK designed
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PowerHouse Solar Shingle Is Clever. But Is It A Good Idea?
95% of roofs in America are asphalt shingles that are cheap, fossil fuel based, heat absorbing and don't last very long; then they are hard to get rid of. They have been called "a disposable roofing system that is difficult to dispose of." But did we
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Prismaflex: A Simple Way Of Bending and Controlling Daylight
When I wrote about what I was hoping to see at Greenbuild this year, I noted that I was not interested in the latest green gizmos and tech, but in simple, effective ways of solving our problems. I used as an example one of my
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Super SIPS Get Over R-50; That's A Lot of Insulation!
That is one big stack of SIPS, or Structural Insulated Panels. I have never seen them so thick as that one on the bottom, a full 12 inches and rated at R-52. These are from PorterSIPs, and are sandwiches of OSB (oriented strand board) and EPS (Expanded
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BrightShelf Throws A Curve At The Traditional Lightshelf
One of the simplest technologies for getting more natural light into an interior is the lightshelf; it bounces light off the ceiling instead of carelessly wasting it on the floor. I have thought that it might be a great thing
