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Jetson Green
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Design-oriented site for sustainable homes, natural materials, and green technology.
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Ideabox Now Offers a Tiny House Minibox
Oregon-based Ideabox has been on the prefab scene doing their thing in the Pacific Northwest for a long time now. I’ve mentioned several of their homes and look forward to sharing a few newsworthy articles here in the next couple months. As a preview, I thought I’d share a new design of the company — [...]
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Xero Flor Green Roofs Get Cradle to Cradle
Xero Flor is a lightweight green roof and system originally developed in Germany. A version was first supplied to Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant by Xero Flor America LLC, the exclusive manufacturer and distributor here in the states, and now the company’s announcing Cradle to Cradle Silver for the technology. The company’s pre-vegetated green roof mats [...]
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Rubble Floor: Materials You Can Reuse
I’m fascinated by the work of Netherlands-based Dave Hakkens in a recent project called “Rubble Floor.” Interested in reusing old building materials as new building materials — and inspired by terrazzo floors — Hakkens conducted several tests on materials such as roof tiles, bricks, nails and screws, and glass. He used concrete as the binder [...]
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Traditional Style NZE Homes in Maryland
Traditional home styles plus a net-zero building standard is a winning combination in the Homes at North Pointe development in Frederick, Maryland. Homes at North Pointe are attaining NAHB's Emerald certification.
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January Month in Review [Outline]
Here’s an outline of our coverage from January. In terms of our new articles, the most shared one on Facebook was about liquid-cooling LEDs by Switch Lighting, while the most shared one on Twitter was a green product interview with architect Michelle Kaufmann. As always, we’re interested in learning about inventive green homes and new [...]
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Urban Ecological Design [Giveaway]
*Leave a comment below through the end of Thursday, February 2, 2012, to be considered for a random giveaway of one copy of Urban Ecological Design. The second book that I want to share with you is Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places, which is authored by Danilo Palazzo and Frederick Steiner. The [...]
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Sustainable American Cities [Giveaway]
*Leave a comment below through the end of Thursday, February 2, 2012, to be considered for a random giveaway of one copy of Sustainability in America’s Cities. In the next two articles, I want to share a couple books that I think you may find interesting. The first is Sustainability in America’s Cities: Creating the [...]
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My Green Bath Rehab on HouseLogic
I was happy to read all the comments and suggestions to my first article on HouseLogic, where I’m documenting a water-wise bathroom remodel. So you know, my next installment is live today and, as with the first article, HouseLogic is offering a chance to win another $100 with this second article. I hope you enjoy [...]
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Efficient Apartments, Hungry Homes, Benefit Corps, + Passive House in Shambles
Inventive micro homes. New material scrubs CO2 from the air. More dirt on Passive House movement: Part A, Part B. Benefit corporations get a legal boost in California. Energy efficiency in apartments could save $3.4 B. Infographic: the energy-hungry home. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for updates, article summaries, newsworthy links, and other site news. [...]
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Passive House Retreat in Rhode Island
Recently I realized that we neglected to follow up on a Passive House project discussed in pre-construction way back in March 2010. It turns out the New England Passive House, or Little Compton Retreat, received LEED Gold certification from the USGBC in recent months. The background is this is a home by ZeroEnergy Design, who [...]
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