Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes in installing windows and doors.
How to Install Windows and Doors Properly
February 16, 2009 By 5 Comments
The 10 Dumbest Green Buildings on Earth
February 16, 2009 By 118 Comments
While any structure built in a way that lessens its footprint is welcomed, some of the buildings that people try to turn green simply make no sense. LEED certification, in all its greatness, does not take the building’s intended purpose into account; this leaves us with some hilarious, unabashedly self-contradicting buildings. Here are the ten [...]
Energetic Sustainable Symposium in San Francisco
February 13, 2009 By 6 Comments
What do get when you mix four of the Bay Area’s top green stars, a LEED certified location, lunch and corporate sponsor wanting to spread its green wings? The spirited Sustainable Symposium sponsored by Ace here in glorious San Francisco. The symposium, in short, brought some energetic and often useful ideas from the knowledgeable and [...]
Live in a Well Rounded Dwelling and Build a Yurt Outside
February 11, 2009 By 6 Comments
While we are on the topic of decreasing our energy footprints in small homes, I’d like to share the simple and small round yurt design, that has been around for ages. The yurt is a type of “Green Weefab Mini-Home” and can be customized into another kind of hand-built “Earth Sheltered House” for those on [...]
Live Simply and Decrease Your Carbon Footprint with a Tiny House
February 9, 2009 By 9 Comments
“Tiny houses” are starting to enter mainstream consciousness, due in large part to new companies dedicated to manufacturing and promoting tiny homes, especially Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. And for good reason, too: one of the most effective ways to decrease your ecological footprint is to buy a tiny house. For obvious reasons, a tiny house [...]
