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Published September 14, 2011 at 8:20 am No Comments
The U.S. Green Building Council is a non-profit organization committed to encouraging green buildings worldwide. Since 1998, it has certified thousands of businesses, schools and homes in the United States and around the world with the LEED certification system. This system provides people seeking to build, or renovate, with a framework for measuring green building design, construction, operation and maintenance.
Becoming LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified is the most recognized way for a building to show its commitment [...]
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Published November 10, 2009 at 12:34 pm No Comments
If you’re in the market for a greener home, you’ve got plenty of obvious options, from purchasing new construction with LEED certification to designing your own house from the ground up. Still, a new home isn’t always the most practical or appealing, and there are steps you can take to green the process even when considering a traditional real estate purchase.
First, keep in mind the major ecological factors in choosing a home. If it’s in a climate that must be [...]
Building and Architecture Professionals
Published September 14, 2009 at 1:01 pm No Comments
Think about your home. While we may try to live environmentally conscious lives, if you could have it any way, would your home meet your eco-standards? For most of us, from better insulation to reduced electricity usage, greener ways to run our houses certainly exist. This problem was the inspiration for what is known as the “EcoManor” in Atlanta, Georgia. Built and designed especially for Laura Turner Seydel, daughter of famed billionaire Ted Turner, and her [...]
Building Products Building and Architecture Professionals
Published June 20, 2009 at 1:52 am No Comments
Whether you’re ready to start building a new green home or are still in the daydreaming phase, the Dream Green Homes website and business is ready to assist you. This interesting site features many different styles of sustainable home, from classic to contemporary to truly unique designs by many different green architects. You can also search for plans according to your preferred construction material or technique, for example straw bale or bamboo.
Each plan can be purchased for very reasonable rates [...]
Health and Wellness Mind Professionals
Published June 14, 2009 at 4:01 am No Comments
Paul Hawken, author and advocate, was recently asked to give the commencement speech at the University of Portland this past May. His newest book is Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. He was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters. Among my favorite of his books is The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, now over fifteen years old and still relevant. This is a [...]
Building Products Building and Architecture Professionals
Published May 11, 2009 at 2:00 pm No Comments
Clayton Homes has long been the leader in manufactured housing – the introduction of the solar powered, energy efficient i-House is placing Clayton at the top of sustainable housing production as well.
Based on the traditional, rectangular form of a mobile home, the i-House puts an entirely new twist on the classic trailer. It also introduces a new option for sustainable pre-fab living. Four of Clayton’s home manufacturing plants are already set up to produce the innovative i-House – [...]
Building Products Building and Architecture Professionals
Published December 28, 2008 at 8:40 pm No Comments
A recent article in the New York times highlighted an interesting trend in green building.
Passive houses, which have been gaining popularity in Europe for years, are beginning to come to the United States.
These homes, built for extreme energy efficiency, utilize no more than a quarter of the heating energy required in older structures. In some cases, such as the house described in the article above, the power required is as little as one twentieth of the norm, or about [...]
