Tag: Greenbuild - Page 4
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GreenBuild: Durisol, the Green Insulated Concrete Form
There was an entire row of exhibitors showing various incarnations of insulated concrete forms (ICFs) with their styrofoam walls and their plastic ties that are filled with concrete and then labelled green. Then there is Durisol, that has been around
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GreenBuild: On Blogging About Green Building
I was asked to be part of a panel discussion about Green Blogs and the Built Environment and was surprised to see a full house. There were also moderator Leigh Stringer of
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GreenBuild: Richard Moe Has a Tough Row to Hoe
I really felt sorry for Richard Moe, and a bit angry, too. Here he is, the keynote speaker for Thursday morning, with a hall that can seat thousands, and there are maybe two hundred people. Downstairs they are crowding in to other seminars on how to
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GreenBuild: Green Wall Techology from Tournesal
We have shown a lot of green wall systems that require some pretty complicated plumbing and controls, with the plants barely hanging on to a layer of felt or mesh. Christopher Lyon of Tournesol Site Works has an interesting alternative, a prefabricated
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GreenBuild: Gray Water Goes Under the Counter
Two years ago, TreeHugger Christine called the AQUS Watersaver: "the epitomy of American ingenuity. Bothered from a young age by the tragic waste of water flowing down the sink drain, Mark Sanders repeatedly dreamed of a system to collect that water
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Serious Materials Makes Serious Windows
Kevin Surace and his company, Serious Materials, have been on TreeHugger before; they invented and are producing EcoRock, a new drywall substitute that generates a fraction of the carbon dioxide released in the production of conventional board. They
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GreenBuild: I Have Seen the Future and it Flushes
For a long time this TreeHugger has been promoting the idea of residential composting toilets, saying that " If we are truly going to develop a zero waste society and protect our water resources, we are going to have to start thinking about dealing
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GreenBuild: What's So Special about Yolo Paint?
TreeHugger first showed YOLO Colorhouse paints over three years ago and their outdoor line a year ago. It's nice stuff, but now every paint manufacturer offers VOC (volatile organic compound) free paint, it is an easy point when you are racking them up
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So Many Greens: GreenBuild, Green Design Furniture, Douglas Green
Douglas Green has been building furniture in Portland, Maine since 1993 under the name Green Design, and he has been living up to his name when it comes to the way he designs and builds.
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GreenBuild: Charge Your Electric Car in Ten Minutes
They may have crushed all of the EV1 electric cars, but they didn't crush the technology; it lives on at Aerovironment, used primarily in industrial vehicles and forklifts.
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GreenBuild: The Rainwater Pillow
TreeHugger loves the idea of rainwater harvesting and has shown quite a few solutions for storing it; they are usually big tanks that are either buried or quite visible above grade. They are also as big when they are empty as they are when filled.
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GreenBuild: Big Ass Fans
In any big space that is heated or air conditioned, the hot air will rise and it will tend to stratify, with hot air stuck at the ceiling, wasting a lot of energy. There are lots of high-tech things you can do, but the dumb simple thing is to simply put
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GreenBuild: Agriboard Structural Insulated Panels
It doesn't look like much, and my photography doesn't help, but for me, this simple product was perhaps the best thing I saw at Greenbuild. But then, I am biased; I like dumb products that just sit there and do their job while reducing our carbon
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GreenBuild: So Many Vendors, So Many USB Media Kits
Media kits are not really necessary anymore; a company can put all of the stuff online. But that doesn't stop companies from trying to put something into your hands to remember them by. USB keys are all the rage, and they get snapped up fast. I refused
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GreenBuild: Making Beauty from Waste at Engineered Timber Resources
Here is an equation we like:
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GreenBuild: So Many Booths, So Much Greenwashing
GreenBuild is just huge, 800 booths, 30,000 people, there probably are more green vendors and green architects in this room than there are green clients in America. One doesn't even want to think about the carbon footprint of bringing everyone to town
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GreenBuild: Project Frog
A great way to start one's visit to Greenbuild in Boston is at Project Frog, a prefabricated building system that is as far from the standard school portable as a Prius is from an Edsel. (Seen previously in TreeHugger at Project Frog: Too Cool for
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Going to Greenbuild? Rise to the Occasion for greenGoat
As a non-profit , greenGoat is anything but trendy; it "boosts building efficiency through conservation measures that lower disposal costs, increase energy efficiency, manage storm water runoff, and improve building performance." It helps architects,
