Three years ago, I decided to downsize. I sold my big house (which I loved!), got rid of all my stuff, and built an itty-bitty eco-friendly cottage. When I finished building, I slid my little house into a friend’s backyard. This […]
Energy production from algal photosynthesis isn’t new of course, but with fifteen apartments, The BIQ building is the world’s first full-scale bioreactive façade. BIQ, which stands for Bio Intelligent Quotient, uses heat recovery as its main source of energy, capturing energy not used
The New Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options Dan Chiras [Chelsea Green Publishing, 336 pages] THE QUANTITY OF BOOKS ON GREEN and sustainable home design grows by the day. Many of them cover similar material in similar
It’s a buyers’ market, and here are the four things that today’s buyers are looking for: Modest floor plans So long, McMansions! Surveys show that Americans are considering smaller homes. Organization and comfort A National Association of Builders survey identified
I like tiny homes—homes that are generally no larger than about 500 square feet. In fact, I lived in a 264 square foot home in the mountains of Taos, NM, for five years. And yes, I had an indoor toilet.
Try This Solar Decathlon Net-Zero Energy Home on for Size: the Chip House (via http://greenbuildingelements.com) For those sustainability designers and innovators wanting a net-zero product, take a look at the Chip House, a 2011 entry in the DoE’s Solar Decathlon,
Seven Sexy Solar Homes: a Slideshow (via sustainablog) Image credit: Jeremy Levine Design at Flickr under a Creative Commons license Editor’s note: Hey, everyone’s doing the slideshow thing, right? To move through the pages, simply click on the page numbers
For more than a hundred years, modular has been touted as the next big thing in homebuilding. But neither companies as practical as Sears Roebuck, which offered a house in a box in 1908, nor architects as visionary as Frank
