From photographer Kevin Bauman's website. See them all.
The toilet from St. Thomas Creations in the video below doesn't qualify for GreenSpec — it's a 1.6gpf toilet (the federal minimum), and GreenSpec requires 1.28gpf or less — but it sure is fun to watch it flush stuff. (More fun than miso in condoms, anyway.) What do I mean by "flush stuff"?
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Greening our existing building stock has taken new prominence recently, both as the green building community grapples with the general economic slowdown along with the new construction slowdown, and as we get more real about what it will take for the building sector to slash our carbon emissions.
A CENTRALLY LOCATED WOOD STOVE and an open floor plan work together to heat this well insulated home. Tending a stove is not as convenient as turning up the thermostat, so homeowners have to be willing to do the extra work. On the right site, a well managed woodlot could provide a perpetual source of fuel that costs no more than the labor to cut and stack it.
About three weeks ago I posted here about a product that decreases heat loss, decreases installation time, provides a termite shield, prevents damage, is cost-competitive, and is partly made with PVC. We ended up listing this product in GreenSpec, and to our members' credit, we got some pushback.
In December 2007 I posted about a video called The Story of Stuff.
This is the second post about strawbale building today. The other is Building Science for Strawbale Buildings.
Over at buildingscience.com, the online home of Building Science Corporation (where you can benefit from the big-brained research and synthesis of Joe Lstiburek, John Straube, and others), there are tons of great articles like Can Highly Glazed Building Façades Be Green?,
Last night in President Obama's address to congress he mentioned Greensburg, Kansas as an example of leadership in green energy:
4240 Architecture is a national design firm dedicated to creating architectural, planning, and interior solutions that integrate social, technological, economic, environmental, and aesthetic concerns.
The firm recently moved its Denver office from its Lower Downtown (LoDo) location to a former steel-pipe foundry in the River North (RiNo) district. The firm is the first professional-services company to relocate to this emerging neighborhood.
This major renovation converted a retail lumberyard into an office and retail facility. Retail space now occupies half of the first floor, while office space occupies the other half of the first floor and the entire second floor.
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