Site map Environmental Building News EBN Archives GreenSpec Directory Green Building Advisor BuildingGreen - Publishers of Environmental Building News What is Green Building An introduction, with links to articles. Overview of our new navigation: News See what's in the current issue of Environmental Building News, our Calendar of Events, and more! Feature Article: Getting the Right Stuff : A ...

Magazine covering all aspects of environmentally sound building design and construction.

The Sustainable Building Sourcebook is a collection of information and sources of materials, assistance, and further research on many aspects of sustainable construction and remodeling.

Stone Age Expeditions. Primitive Survival Skills. Books. Hide Tanning. ...

Technologies and practices that improve the energy and resource efficiency of commercial and multi-unit residential buildings A building professional's guide to more than 90 environmentally-appropriate technologies and practices. Architects, engineers and buildings managers can improve the energy and resource efficiency of commercial, industrial and multi-unit residential buildings through the ...

Sustainable Architecture, Building and Culture: A unique compendium of links and content oriented to the global community of ecological building proponents.

The Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide educates and assists architects, building owners, occupants, educators, students, and the general public concerning sustainable building design. The Guide is a design tool that can be used to overlay environmental issues on the design, construction, and operation of both new and renovated facilities. It can be used to set sustainable design priorities and ...

In quarterly publication since 1993, TLS is the subscriber-supported, reader-written international grassroots journal of strawbale construction and natural building, providing up-to-date news, inspiration, and information on techniques, projects, issues, materials, and more.

The NCAT Center for Resourceful Building Technology is dedicated to promoting environmentally responsible practices in construction, and provides information on resource efficient building materials.

Guild: Home | About Us | Join Us | Calendar | Chapters | Free News EcoBuilding: Green Pages | Projects | Library | FAQ | Search Members-Only: M's Home | News | Forums | How-to | Links | You Chapters: Southwest Oregon (Eugene) Western Columbia (Portland) South Puget Sound (Olympia) Central Puget Sound (Seattle) Straits & Islands (Pt Townsend) NW WA & SW BC (Bellingham) Central WA & BC ...

Greenhomebuilding.com focuses on sustainable architecture, natural building, solar energy, ecology, water and forest conservation, recycling, greenhouses, adobe, cob, strawbale, cordwood, papercrete, earthbag and vernacular architecture, with related resources of books, videos and links.

The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) software brings to your fingertips a powerful technique for balancing the environmental and economic performance of building products. Developed by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Building and Fire Research Laboratory with support from the U.S. EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program and the ...

Information on green building design and construction including case studies, project design, programs and partnerships, links to related web sites, and information on related California Integrated Waste Management Board activities is offered. Sustainable building activities related to government action with a highlight of the tasks being implemented by the State Sustainable Building Task Force ...

The Masonry Heater Association information site - Information on masonry heaters, manufacturers, and masonry heater builders ...

The CalEarth homepage www.CalEarth.org Designs low cost housing using earth construction techniques and long sandbag Superadobe technology for third world developing countries lunar and martian applications.

Building an environmental green building design, eco construction products, passive solar energy, sustainable architecture, strawbale books design portal.

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Green Buildings Recent Additions | Contact Us | Print Version Search: EPA Home Green Buildings Home EPA's Green Buildings Energy Efficiency and Renewables Green Building Materials Indoor Environment Water Conservation Waste The buildings in which we live, work, and play protect us from Nature's extremes: cold, heat, wind, rain, and snow. But these structures affect and shape our environment ...

Resources dedicated to the advancement of green architecture, focusing on Residential Environmental Design, and how both relate to architects, designers, contractors, and homeowners.

Interamerica's adobe builder-your portal to adobe homes, adobe houses, rammed earth, pressed block, solar design and green building. Offering back-pacs of Adobe Builder Magazine, Earthbuilder's Encyclopedia CD-ROM, Southwest solaradobe classes, and affordable house plans ...

Seven solar gain in Dave's home: trombe wall, solarium convection, photo-voltaic cells, propylene-glycol heat exchange, eutectic salt chamber, berm-insulation, black chimneys ...

A small non-profit dedicated to the exploration and education of natural, local and artistic building techniques Workshops in straw bale, earthen and lime plasters, earth floors, and natural paints. Development of low cost houses in the US and Mexico.

Founded in 1995 as anon-profit committed to the research and implementation ofsustainable technology for the built environment.

Join us on our adventure to build a cordwood house in Minnesota. Day Creek Journal is updated almost on a weekly basis as we build our house step by step.

Contact CASBA. About CASBA. Join Us! Site Index Links CASBA Resource List CASBA Publications Advisory Board Events Bulletin Board The FAQs on Straw Building. Technical Information. Senate Bill 332 Revised Straw Bale Guidelines Signed by Governor: now Chapter 31, Statutes of 2002 Intro to Straw Bale Workshops Next workshop June 29, 30 at Angels Camp Ecological Building Network receives grant for ...

Online resources for building with straw, straw-bales, strawbales ...

IMPROVING HUMAN, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE The Daylight Collaborative Will Be Operational July 1, 1999 For more information, please contact Abby Vogen at avogen@ecw.org, 608-238-8276 x122 updated: May 25, 1999 ...

Earthships are self sufficient homes built out of tires and aluminum cans. See a beautiful earthship home built from beginning to end.

GREYWATER What it is ... ways to treat it ... ways to use it. Greywater is washwater EXCLUDING toilet wastes blackwater. Many sanitary engineers maintain that all wastewaters are alike and require the same treatment. This notion is not supported by the research data currently available. There are very significant distinctions between greywater and toilet residues; for how these wastewaters ...

Sustainable Architecture This page describes current and future documents in our Sustainable Architecture Compendium. As finished documents are published for each of the five modules, we will make them available here. Currently, final editions of the entire Introductory, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Building Materials, and Recycling and Reuse modules are available online. You are welcome to ...

SBC Home Page Upcoming Events Newsletters Membership Member's Web Sites SBC/SBAT Sustainable Materials Exchange Activities Teams Welcome. Please sign up for our SBC email announcements , the best way to keep up with activities of the Sustainable Building Coalition! The coalition exists to facilitate the organization and education of the building and design community and the general public to ...

Natural sustainable low cost construction methods such as strawbale, earthen materials, natural-timber, -stone, and -plasters, recycled materials, and more ...

Green eesign sustainable architecture information sources.

Netzwerk fur alle Bereiche des solaren und okologischen Bauens. agsn ist ein Netzwerk mit dem Ziel, der Umweltzerstorung in allen Bereichen der gebauten Umwelt entgegenzuwirken.

Natural sustainable low cost construction methods such as strawbale, earthen materials, natural-timber, -stone, and -plasters, recycled materials, and more ...

The new technology to build beautiful, energy efficient earth homes in hours using machinery instead of weeks using grueling manual labor.

The Healthy House System is a Water Treatment System, capable of reclaiming water from sewage suitable for reuse flushing toilets, for irrigation and other uses.

Passive solar design refers to the use of the sun's energy for the heating and cooling of living spaces. In this approach, the building itself or some element of it takes advantage of natural energy characteristics in materials and air created by exposure to the sun. Passive systems are simple, have few moving parts, and require minimal maintenance and require no mechanical systems.

Fully Independent Residential Solar Technology, Inc A not-for-profit organization How to heat and power an energy efficient home with the sun's rays. Heating your house with Passive Solar energy is much simpler than one might imagine. All it takes is understanding the house site, shape, orientation, window placement, and absorbtion/storage of the sun's radiant heat. Generating electricity with ...

Straw Bale Building Association (for Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England) Events / Contacts / Cwm Einion Home Welcome to the Straw Bale Building Association web page. We are an organisation for those interested in Straw Bale Building in the UK and Ireland I intend to add to, and update, these pages with news, articles and information on forthcoming workshops, courses and get togethers (more so ...

May 10-19, 2002 in Portland, Oregon -- natural builders converge from around the country to create structures of cob, strawbale, cordwood, etc. in an urban setting.

The following article is posted with the permission of the author. You are welcome to link to this page or make copies of it for personal use, however, the author has requested that you not mirror this article on other web sites. Thank you for your cooperation. RESEARCH and CODE IMPROVEMENT Figure 1 -- SEISMIC ZONE MAP OF THE UNITED STATES SOME THOUGHTS ON ADOBE CODES By Fred Webster, Ph.D.

Solar Building Design By Steven Heckeroth ...

RESEARCH OUTCOMES . Durability, Adaptability and Energy Conservation of Buildings Guidance document . 'Design for more sustainable buildings - durability, adaptability and energy conservation issues' Outcomes main page Guidelines for the design of more sustainable buildings: durability, adaptability and energy conservation issues Reason for the guidelines: Preserving and creating the built ...

Earthship! Earthship! A truly fantastic Oklahoma earthship which is well worth a cybervisit.

Passive Solar House Design In this chapter, we describe the passive solar design features of the Florida Solar Cracker House. An effective solar house design must be tailored to the local climate and environment. In the first section, The Cracker heritage, we look to local history for guidance in simple and effective design and describe in some detail the local climate in northern Florida. The ...