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For those of you who have been following this blog for awhile, you are probably somewhat familiar with Michelle Kaufmann. She is one of the nation’s most recognizable green home designers. Her company (Michelle Kaufmann Designs) was Residential Architect magazine’s Top Firm for 2008, and in 2009 she earned the NAHB’s Green Building Award for Advocate [...]

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I know this may seem like kind of random way to begin a green home design blogpost, but I recently joined the worldwide “Twitter” community. For those of you who don’t know what “Twitter” is, let me explain . . . No, there is too much; let me sum up: Twitter is an online tool for [...]

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I recently spent some time looking through the Green Home Guide website that I told you about last week. I can’t adequately tell you just how much information is available on this website; it really is a great resource if you’re new to the world of green living and design. Today I started looking at a feature called [...]

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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 [...]

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Hold on to your seats, because I’ve got some pretty amazing news about green building technology. It all started out earlier this afternoon when I was browsing around on BuildingGreen.com. They have a well-organized site offering lots of information about anything from green building products to new water-saving techniques. Before long, I found a news article with [...]

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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 [...]

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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 Wayne State University. [...]

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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

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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 has [...]

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Though it may not be the hot topic of the century, building residences with storage containers is getting a lot of attention right now. Let me tell you why. Structure: The biggest reason the idea has caught on is that the structure is already done. No need to worry about structural support. You also don’t [...]

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