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Natural wool insulation is sustainable choice for green home building. Wool insulation offers health and environmental benefits and is a popular choice among architects, builders, and homeowners
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Made from consumer paper products, cellulose insulation typically contains about 85 percent recycled content. Using this green building material can [&hellip
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The age-old construction techniques employed in traditional brush and wattle structures are time-tested and worthy of great respect. “Touching the [&hellip
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Blocks used for residential and commercial construction employ a wide variety of green building materials in their composition. The most [&hellip
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Bamboo is a truly remarkable green building material. It’s twice as strong as concrete and slightly stronger than steel. It’s [&hellip
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Used in a wide variety of ways in the building construction market, aluminum is a very versatile green building material, [&hellip
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Green building materials are as diverse as Earth itself. Some of the most sustainable materials on the planet are modern [&hellip
February 27th, 2016 | by Stephen Hanley
BioMason makes bricks from sand using the same process that nature uses to make coral reefs. It uses no heat and creates no carbon emissions.
July 27th, 2015 | by Dawn Killough
Green building is here to stay! As if there were any doubt, a recent study by BCC Research has shown [&hellip
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For every ton of rice that is grown, 500 lbs of rice husks and straw are created. Typically, those husks [&hellip
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According to Click Green, hay bales can make an affordable, energy efficient, and sustainable tiny house that can keep you [&hellip
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There’s a new green building material on the market that is light, strong, and flexible, and can be made into [&hellip
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This is a business feature worth sharing. Ecovative Design features a shining example for manufacturing building materials on a sustainable basis. It grows the insulating products it manufactures and sells
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In what sounds like the premise for a science fiction B movie, researchers are trying to create protocells which (among [&hellip
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Building with reclaimed building materials is a great way to reduce the environmental footprint of a building. LEED and GreenPoints both award points for use of reclaimed materials. However, some reclaimed materials can be radioactive
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