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Green Building Blog TheGreenO Building Blog gives you information about green building blogs. Find informations about sustainable building practices that efficiently use Natural Resources and reduces the environmental consequences. The blogs also discuss about building low energy houses and sustainable green architecture. |
| Green Gourmet Cooking |
 Cooking on a cast iron, wood or coal burning stove creates a gourmet cooking experience that can’t be beat! The flavors are incredible and if you’re a cook, you know that the flavors are unattainable from regular electric or gas stoves.They can also serve the duel purpose of heating too. Tags: Energy Efficiency | Heating Systems | Living Space Hits: 49 | Read more... |
| How best to determine a green building? |
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A rant or a mugging? Technically, the topic at a forum Tuesday night by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association was Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, the green-building rating system administered by the US Green Building Council. Tags: Green Buildings | LEED Hits: 61 | Read more... |
| Getting Off The Green |
 We spend a lot of time focusing on the inside and envelope of the building, but it is also important to look outwards as well.What surrounds the building? Various shades of green? A vibrant rainbow of native flowers? A landscape that encourages a pluck of fruit here or a chew on an edible green there? Or is it a monoculture of high-maintenance grass? Tags: Landscaping | Living Space Hits: 39 | Read more... |
| Energy Efficiency Certification |
 Energy Efficiency Certification: What it is and How to get itWith tax season in our midst and the economy down the tubes, we need every bit of help we can get. As you may know, you can get tax credits if you have a home or business with an Energy Efficiency Certification. And, to sweeten the pot, with the new Stimulus bill, tax credit rates have increased to 30% and the cap has been raised on credits from $500 to $1500. Tags: Energy Efficiency | LEED Certification Hits: 37 | Read more... |
| Home Green Home: Hunting Energy Leaks |
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On the occasion of my first home energy audit, I decided to see what I could dig up on the topic from The New York Times’s archives. How far back, I wondered, does this notion go — particularly the idea of using infrared cameras and other high-tech gizmos to really get the energy fingerprint of a home? Tags: Buildings | Commerce | Consumers | Conventional Energy | Efficiency | Energy Business | Energy Economics | green tree energy | home energy audits | home green home Hits: 53 | Read more... |
| Finding the Right Size |
 The world’s population is expected to reach 9 billion by the year 2040.That’s a lot of people to sustain. Population growth tends to be a taboo and contentious issue within climate change discourse. However, what holds true is that we as a global population, need to be creative and also realistic about how to support our growing species. Tags: Green Building Design | Living Space Hits: 45 | Read more... |
| Green Building Laws: Hawaii |
A Natural Progression or Micro-managing?
Tags: Legislation | Green Building Hits: 48 | Read more... |
To what extent does legislation move the green building movement forward, and when does it become micro-managing?| Experiments in District Heating |
 Schematic of a community solar heating plan being deployed in Alberta. Last month, North Carolina’s Vanir Energy and EnerWorks, of London, Ontario, completed what the two renewable companies describe as the world’s largest solar thermal heating and cooling installation – 640 collectors on the 1-million square-foot Fletcher Business Park in North Carolina. Tags: Alternative Energy | Architecture | Buildings | Conventional Energy | Efficiency | Energy Business | Energy Economics | General Business | alberta | canada | district heating | drake landing subdivision | geothermal | North Carolina | Ontario | solar thermal Hits: 55 | Read more... |
| Building Survey Shows ‘Green’ Up, LEED Down |
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The Third Annual Green Building Survey recently released by Allen Matkins, Constructive Technologies Group (CTG) and the Green Building Insider revealed surprising results about the realm of green construction.
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The study utilized the opinions of over 900 professionals involved in green building and LEED certification, and their attitudes toward green building and its risks, costs, certification processes and trends.| Greener gadgets preview: Ubicycle public bicycle program |
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Design ideas isn't a gadget at all, but a concept for a shared bicycle network with lots of green details. The Ubicycle Public Bicycle Program aims to solve the problems that have held other public bike programs in the past. Tags: Biking | Design | solar power | Commuting | Mass transit Hits: 36 | Read more... |
| Ode to Kijiji |
 One of the common challenges to buying “green” products and services is the associated costs with better labor practices, better quality and more eco- and human friendly materials.A true sustainable product will also have a cost reflecting a growing, but certainly not yet dominant market. It is fantastic to live in an age where consumers and corporations are starting to clue in to the fact that cutting corners and operating from a pure financial bottom line does not consider the health of people and the planet. Tags: Green Building Techniques | Remodeling Green Hits: 36 | Read more... |
| Gasification Boilers are all the Rage |
 Fired with recycled sawdust and wood shavings, these stoves will put you ahead of the others on the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” track.Instead of using gas or gel fuel, these stoves burn scrap wood, grains and pellets. Most pellets are made from 100% recycled sawdust, but can also be made from wood chips, bark, agricultural crop waste, recycled paper or other organic materials. Tags: Green Building Design | Green Building Techniques | Heating Systems | Natural Alternatives | Remodeling Green Hits: 42 | Read more... |
| The New Wood Stove |
 Wood stoves and wood burning systems come in a huge variety of shapes, sizes, uses and price ranges. Some of the names they go by are pellet stoves, fireplace inserts, pot belly, cast iron, soapstone, etc.Additionally, the assortment of fuels these stoves burn can vary, some are set up for dual or multiple fuels that can burn wood one day, and corn the next. Either way, knowing the different types of fuels and how well they burn is important. Tags: Green Building Design | Green Building Techniques | Heating Systems | Natural Alternatives | Remodeling Green Hits: 48 | Read more... |
| The Beauty of Small Spaces |
 My love of small spaces is not just a romantic fantasy; I live in one. My studio condo is 525 square feet. I have a tiny kitchen, decent bathroom, walk-thru closet and one big room with floor to ceiling windows on one wall.It’s perfect for one and can occasionally accommodate four for dinner. “Sounds fine” you say, “but why do you LOVE it so?” Keep reading. Save time A small place can save you a ton of time in cleaning and repair. I can tidy up my space in about ten minutes and do a full top-to-bottom clean in under an hour. I can vacuum the whole place without switching to another outlet! Imagine being able to paint your entire apartment in a day—I can. Tags: Living Space | Building | Lifestyle Hits: 40 | Read more... |
| DOE Wants To Put CO2 Underground |
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Written by Yoni Levinson
The Department of Energy has made it clear that they will try to make carbon sequestration work, and they recently put out a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to help them do it. The FOA states that up to $24 million will be set aside for projects that will test out different ways of sequestering carbon in “geological formations” – i.e. underground or underwater. The people who are granted the awards will get about 80% of the costs covered by the DOE. Tags: CO2 Hits: 31 | Read more... |
| Beware of Greenwashing in the Housing Market |
By Dayanti Karunaratne It’s no secret that corporations – and the agencies that market them – have grown wise to the increased public concern about environmental issues. At a time when many market sectors are hurting, businesses of all types are trying to catch some of the momentum in the so-called green economy.With good reason – green products are among the fastest growing segments in the market and present a huge potential for growth. While its important to read product labels carefully to make sure you’re getting a truly green product, the stakes are significantly higher when it comes to investing in a house or condo. You need to look closer, ask questions, and, perhaps most importantly, not be satisfied by the marketing pitch. Tags: Green Building Techniques | New Communities Hits: 42 | Read more... |
| Rent Green |
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By Dayanti Karunaratne
Tags: New Communities | Remodeling Green Hits: 38 | Read more... |
While the term green building may conjure up images of costly renovations like positioning our house in relation to the sun, in reality, many of us are at the mercy of our landlords. Who keeps an eye on efficiency? As a renter, how can you ‘green’ your humble abode?