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Posted in Green Building Info. on Dec 17th, 2008
Now that things have calmed down a little, I’m able to take some time to learn a little more about going green. Let me tell you, the more you learn, the less you know!
I found a great site earlier today called greenbuilding.com. Now, I hope I’ve made it abundantly clear that I am an extreme [...]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., Remodeling on Dec 16th, 2008
I’m sorry that it has taken me so long to write a new post, but I hope that you’ll forgive me. For those of you who remember taking final exams at the end of the semester at college, you’ll understand when I say that I just didn’t have time.
That being said, I did find something interesting the [...]
Posted in Green Building Info., Remodeling, construction methods on Oct 20th, 2008
Freegreen.com is your one-stop green website. This company has everything from products to lessen your carbon footprint to it’s own green social network similar to Facebook and Myspace. You can look at house plans with green features built into them. Once you have a home picked out you can browse over green [...]
Posted in Green Building Info. on Oct 2nd, 2008
After I posted the article yesterday I searched out what exactly goes into making a green roof. Roofhelper.com has a whole section dedicated to green roofs. This site has a basic overview on what materials go into green roofs and what benefits these roofs can provide. This had some cool info that [...]
Posted in Green Building Info., construction methods on Sep 23rd, 2008
With a recent decline in the housing business, builders and real estate agents are looking for ways to keep the industry abuzz. The option of a “green” has become more and more appealing to consumers. This is helping the industry because, with increased interest, the cost of supplies are dropping. People are [...]
Posted in Green Building Info., home design. on Aug 25th, 2008
While on The Daily Texan’s website I came across an article about at-risk and disadvantaged youth that are finding a way to contribute to their society and can useful on-the-job training. I was intrigued by the head and decided to read on.
The youth are representatives of a organization called American YouthWorks. Through this [...]
Posted in Green Building Info., construction methods, home design. on May 19th, 2008
I’ve been reading a delightful blog called 100khouse.com. This is the first hand experience of author Chad Ludeman, president of Postgreen, who is developing the 100khouse. The neatest thing of all is indeed the reality of green building. Some things go smoothly for Chad, others don’t, and some don’t go at all. [...]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., construction methods, home design. on May 14th, 2008
I wrote about using old shipping containers to build houses with a few weeks ago. Well here is a great example of a proposed project in Detroit. Designed by architect Steven Flum, in partnership with developer Leslie Horn, the project is waiting city approval. Once received, the condos will end up near [...]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., home design. on Apr 24th, 2008
We’ve featured Michelle Kauffman before. Her work is pleasing to me, so I thought I’d share some vidoes. These are inside looks into some of her homes, the Glidehouse and the Sunset Breezehouse. Enjoy…
MKD video 1
MKD video 2
MKD video 3
thanks michelle and preston
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info. on Apr 11th, 2008
Agilewaves Inc, a California based IT company, has created the Resource Monitor (shown above) which displays a building’s performance. Their first client, Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA built green, incorporating such things as solar-electric panels and a living roof. When they wanted to measure the performance, they went to Agilewaves.
Keeping track of performance [...]
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