Building Green
| Sustainable Builders: | |
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www.builderswithoutborders.org |
Builders Without Borders is an international network of ecological builders who advocate the use of straw, earth and other local, affordable materials in construction and work with communities and organizations around the world to create affordable, sustainable housing. |
directory.greenbuilder.com |
Green Builder. List of Green Building Professionals in your area, choose the Directory Category or a keyword for the type of services that you're interested in and your location. |
| Sustainable Development: | |
www.wbcsd.org |
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) brings together some 180 international companies in a shared commitment to sustainable development through economic growth, ecological balance and social progress. Lots of great info ! *** |
| Sustainable Developments: | |
www.solaustin.com |
SOL (solution-oriented living). An affordable Net Zero energy Development in Austin, TX. |
www.peterboroughcohousing.org |
Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm consists of 29 quality built, LEED Platinum homes, a Common House, office/studio space, a working farm, and woodlands with walking trails. On 70 acres along the Nubanusit River, Peterborough, New Hampshire. |
www.mashpeecommons.com |
Mashpee Commons, Cape Cod, a transformation of an existing strip shopping center into a traditional New England town center. |
| Sustainable Projects: | |
www.busbyperkinswill.ca |
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) will be the most innovative and high performance building built in North America. CIRS will be a state-of-the-art 'living-lab' in which researchers from leading academic institutions can perform research on and assessment of current and future building systems and technologies. Features include: on-site fuel cells; a photovoltaic array; solar hot water collectors; ground source heat pumps; a biomass co-generation system; glazing treatment ensuring solar heat gain/loss is minimized for each orientation. A wind turbine, solar shading, sustainably harvested wood, living walls, designed for disassembly, etc...! |
www.jetsongreen.com |
Jetson Green. 34 LEED Platinum Projects. |
www.aiatopten.org |
American Institute of Architects- Committee on the Environment- 2008 Top Ten Green Project Award Winners. |
casestudies.globalenergybasel.com |
Global Energy Basel's Online database for integrated energy solutions- a worldwide case study database, dedicated entirely to sustainable energy solutions and sustainable energy projects. |
www.bullitt.org |
Bullitt. Oregon is to develop a first-of-its-kind “living building”. A new public-private collaboration for the Portland Sustainability Center which will be housed in a “living” and self- sustaining green building. |
www.h2pia.com |
H2PIA. The world's first Hydrogen Community. Denmark's Hydrogen Innovation & Research Centre. Check this out ! |
Recent Issues Blog Posts
Methane hydrate, will it be a godsend and replace dirty coal and oil within the next five years, or will it delay our investment in renewable energy and set us on an ever longer road of hydrocarbon addiction?
A destruction of the world's resources, leaving long term greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and habitat loss.
The World Health Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme have just listed endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) a "global threat" after the release of a collaborative study.
Recent Building Blog Posts
Since Neolithic times we have fenced our sheep and vegetables in this easy to make (albeit time consuming) wooden fence.
The earth-house uses the ground as an insulating blanket that efficiently protects it from temperature extremes, wind, rain and extreme weather events.
Underground homes with a modern bent. A large thermal mass stabilizes inside temperatures, giving you free heat in the winter, free cooling in the summer.
Recent Art Blog Posts
Yao Lu an emerging Chinese artist digitally reworks photos of garbage into traditional Chinese landscape paintings.
Recent Movies Blog Posts
reveals the undemocratic process of forcing dams onto an unconsenting public by governments
The many voices of the film share a unified vision: we must start acting as a planetary civilization.
a journey into the soul of humanity and a testimony of the damage inflicted by humans on the natural world...
