Green Building Materials

From natural building materials to the high-tech, browse through these pages to discover a variety of materials used in green building as alternatives to conventional materials.

Green dumpster - how to find waste materials to build a house

How to Find Waste Materials to Build a House

The idea of constructing a house with garbage might put some people off. Many people, even. There are a lot of benefits to reclaiming and repurposing materials for construction, though. These materials are cheap (often free) and they allow builders […]

Home at dancing rabbit ecovillage - a home made solely of local or reclaimed materials

A Home Made Solely of Local or Reclaimed Materials [video]

Narrator:  Here at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, community members strive to live sustainably, and this plays into all aspects of daily living, including diet, energy consumption and housing. Members build their own homes from sustainable and natural resources, including straw bales,

Hempcrete wall - what is hempcrete

6 Advantages of Building With Hempcrete

Updated: March 6, 2020 What is hempcrete? Hempcrete is a unique building material, being a composite of a bio-fibre (hemp hurd or shiv) and a mineral binder (lime). These ingredients are blended together with water, and the moistened binder coats