Quikrete

Quikrete...

recycle tiles as garden decoration Feeling cemented in your present life? Pulverized? Torn up? Ashy? Overly slagged? But the production of Quikrete allows for some innovation and renewability in the paving of new roads and other surfaces recycling old torn up pavements. With more...
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Getting Green Wrong

Getting Green Wrong...

In sustainable living, getting things green is usually the right way to go. But sometimes, green can be the wrong way to go. This building and its serious water damage along the gutter illustrates not only how crucial gutter repair is, but how critical the timeliness of the repair...
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Building and Buying Gre...

Building and Buying Green in Indian Country, a practical guide for California Tribes is the subject material under review. This government publication impacted me strongly on a number of levels, and in the context of my many researches founded many important ideas from just reading...
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Challenge to Build Gree...

The challenge of green building comes into play in modern construction when the efficiency of a conventional manufacturing solutions to lumber an engineering home architecture becomes less and less efficient. Green building looks to see if other methods and intermediate compromises...
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Green Building...

The challenge of green building comes into play in modern construction when the efficiency of a conventional manufacturing tradition brings solutions to lumber and engineering the home architecture becomes less and less efficient. Green building looks to see if other methods and intermediate...
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Could You Take Your Hom...

Planned Living Taking your home off the grid is an ambitious enterprise but a praiseworthy one. What if during the next power outage your home environment sailed onward? Solar energy devices have become much more sophisticated and photovoltaic power cells can redistribute energy...
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Put Your Truss in Small...

Truss Built Home You may have trussed a chicken in your time but have you ever trussed a roof? Trusses are hot right now in the sustainable building design world. Using non chemically treated wood for the trusses or bamboo in your flooring, or partially recycled glass in your kitchen...
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Sustainable Living Come...

Crack a Book on Sustainable Living To some, others need training! Advocates for sustainable living often have been educated by several tiers of training, architecturally progressive building projects, eco-friendly merchants, and from other exposure to environmentally responsible...
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PISE and Rammed Earth h...

PISE is reclaimed ecologically friendly material used in green friendly building projects. Wherever sustainable building projects are taking place, reclaimable and recycled materials join rammed earth and paper to make innovative design statements for green friendly homes. Rammed...
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