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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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Ohio Modern Tiny House for the Lofty
Adam Leu has the height of an NBA small forward, 6′ 7″, and wasn’t satisfied with just a standard tiny house. So he modified a couple plans by tiny-house enthusiast Michael Janzen and created the Tall Man’s Tiny House. It’s 21-feet long, 13′ 3″ tall (total, not the interior), and includes three roomy segments of [...]
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Philips Has a Neat LED Flood Light Too
I spent some time in the home improvement stores this weekend and noticed a newer bulb from Philips designed to replace the standard flood light. The BR30 LED bulb is Energy Star compliant, delivers 730 lumens, and uses a decent 13-watts of energy. Plus, it’s mercury free, lasts about 25,000 hours, and has a standard [...]
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Bright Home Ideas, Dishwasher Efficiency, Simple Cost Savings, + Home Solar Subsidies
Goodbye, Watts. Hello, Lumens! The latest bright idea for home lighting. Savings are as easy as changing a light bulb. Green features in a wheelchair-friendly footprint. DOE released new efficiency rules for washers. The prefab behind the IKEA house myth. Subsidies spur home solar power. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for updates, article summaries, newsworthy [...]
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Live Screen Vertical Garden for the Home
The Live Screen will make its debut at Wanted Design in New York City this weekend. It was designed by Danielle Trofe and relies on a hydropic, self-watering configuration to create a stylish and sustainably maintained vertical garden for home interiors. The water is circulated with an aquatic air pump that pushes water through what [...]
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LEED BeachHaus I Prefab in White Rock
This is BeachHaus I in the White Rock area of British Columbia. The home (like the neighbor, BeachHaus II) is on the market, should you have an interest in a luxe, modern, prefabricated home with incredible views. BeachHaus — located at 15611 Columbia Avenue — is waiting for LEED certification from the CAGBC and has three [...]
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Debate: Mechanical vs Passive Strategies
The stage was set for rowdy debate of the tensions between mechanical and passive green building techniques at the recent Congress of the New Urbansim. Steve Mouzon, designer and author of The Original Green, Bill Browning of Terrapin Bright Green, Ann Daigle of the Princes Foundation, and Daniel Sloan of McGuire Woods, moderated by Elizabeth [...]
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Nido is a Finnish Micro Cabin on the Lake
News of this 96-square-foot micro cabin was first published at Tiny House Listings a few months back, though you may start seeing it on sites all over the web. The tiny house was conceived and built in Finland by Robin Falck with a footprint purposely small enough to not need permits. Falck enlisted the help [...]
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Paar House Takes National Green Award
This home by North Carolina-based Chandler Design-Build was named Project of the Year in the Small Volume Single Family category of the 2012 National Green Building Awards. Certified to both Energy Star and the National Green Building Standard, Paar Residence was built with a panelized, double-stud wall system and “serves as a showcase for a [...]
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Low-VOC Light Sheetrock for Easy Install
It turns out lighter gypsum wallboard sells well. In July 2010, USG Corporation tested the market for Sheetrock UltraLight panels, which are anywhere from 15-24 pounds lighter per panel depending on the size, and they outsold heavier product, according to NYSE Magazine. Since then, the panels have rolled out to several Home Depot stores and [...]
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Clayton Homes Intros Home Energy Guide
Clayton Homes, maker of the popular i-House, is the largest producer of homes in the country and accounted for 7% of homes constructed in 2011, according to the annual report of parent Berkshire Hathaway. They have a large residential footprint, and their efforts to educate home purchasers can go a long way. So it’s great [...]
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