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Posted in Green Building Info., Remodeling on Mar 2nd, 2011
I was surfing around the net today and found a cool website that has a few blogs going about energy saving in the home. You can save money and the environment if you build a green home but it loses all the its benefits if you stop there. You need to keep up on your [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2009
As a self-admitted novice in the world of Green Design, I am always on the lookout for websites and organizations that can help me expand my knowledge of green building/living techniques. Well, I think I’ve just hit the mother-lode! I usually try to find some time each week to surf the web in search of resources [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2009
Please excuse me if I’m being a little redundant, but I just read an article that I really enjoyed. It was introducing a new type of formaldehyde-free insulation. This article really emphasized the point that green living is all about better living. This new insulation is all about improving air quality, but it is also sustainable at the same time. If [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Construction Methods, Green Building Info., Remodeling 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 builders in your [...]
Posted in Building Technology, Construction Methods on Sep 8th, 2008
The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry completed construction on what is being called “Chicago’s greenest home.” The modular home with 2500 square feet mixes both elements of the world gone by and future space-age technology. Smart Home has furniture made of everything from crates and barrels to a dining room table fashioned out of [...]
Posted in Construction Methods, Green Building Info., 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. I’m still not [...]
Posted in Construction Methods, Green Building Info., Home Design, Remodeling on Mar 17th, 2008
An important aspect of sustainability is preserving the buildings we can and transforming them into renewed and efficient structures. The unfortunate reality is that remodeling can be a tiring and cumbersome process that leaves a bad taste in your mouth (that’s the mold). Thankfully, remodeling homes is now being recognized and aided. The USGBC and [...]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., Home Design on Jan 30th, 2008
CNET reported on a paint under development by researchers at Rice University and City College of New York. The trick is an ancient remedy that my unlce used to swear by (and probably still does). It’s silver. Nanoparticles of silver, to be exact. The trick is to insert these tiny particles into a vegetable oil [...]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info. on Jan 16th, 2008
Popsci.com gives out invention awards every year. I stumbled across their selections from May and found a great product made from a coal by-product, fly ash. Once part of the problem, retired civil engineer Henry Liu turns fly ash into an effective solution, and he’s planning on releasing it this year! Brick making is an [...]
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