Green housing round-up!
I’ve been collecting links to interesting articles about green housing and design lately, almost all via Treehugger, and I finally have a break in the action where I can repost them and shine a light on what I think are some worthwhile endeavors. Have a look!
GE recently introduced a Net-Zero Energy Home, which uses a [...]
Is the Stimulus stimulating?
Today on GreenBiz.com, their contributor Sarah Terry-Cobo published a terrific piece called Mapping the Path of Stimulus Funding that takes a look at where the billions of dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) are going in this country. Even better, they made a map! Who doesn’t like maps? Have a look [...]
Don’t know how to clad your building? Use a plant
…or at least, if you are French architect Edouard François, this is a frequent choice. He builds with what are called “green facades”, which differ from “living walls” in that they do not require elaborate watering systems. Plants on the exterior facade of a building are a great way to help moderate the interior temperature [...]
The 29 most important pages of the Waxman-Markey climate bill
Ed Mazria is a bit of a legend in the Architecture and design community. He’s been in practice forever; he wrote a big, fat book all about energy-saving passive design in the 70’s entitled The Passive Solar Energy Book; and he’s the driving force behind the organization known as Architecture 2030. Basically, when Ed talks, [...]
7 years toward zero energy
The Beddington Zero Energy Development – BedZED for short – is now seven years old in England and a report has been drafted that describes how much its residents have reduced their carbon footprints. I won’t get too far into the report, as Treehugger does a great job of that already, but I think it’s [...]
Aktivhaus!
From Treehugger comes news of a “passive house” with solar hot water collectors and a heat pump that actually generates more energy than the house consumes. A typical passive house is designed with lots of insulation and less windows, in order to absorb heat and trap it in, thereby conserving solar energy and reducing the [...]
Important Business & the iHouse
Sorry I’ve been so absent lately….I had to attend to the important business of graduating.
In other news, this story about the Clayton Homes iHouse got passed around the blogosphere a couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to mention it here briefly. What I think is really intriguing about the iHouse is that is [...]
A Green Designer’s Happy Place
I recently discovered a new retail establishment that I think we can all get excited about. It’s called Green Depot, and I bet you can imagine what it sells by its name association with the Big Orange, aka, the Home Depot. Where the Home Depot sells building supplies of all kinds*, the Green Depot supplies [...]
A House for Everyone
As reported by Bloomberg last week, a record 19 million homes stood vacant at the end of 2008, and home ownership fell to an eight-year low as banks seized houses faster than they could sell them. You don’t need me to tell you this, but 19 million is a LOT of houses, and this acceleration [...]
Passive homes make a comeback
Although not a new concept, passive homes have been sprouting up more frequently lately, even appearing in the New York Times as part of their Energy Challenge series. Passive design strategies form the basis for many of the renovation strategies suggested in the GreenDesignCollective’s Green Your Home tool; essentially, they rely on sunlight, natural ventilation, [...]
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