Adventures Tearing Down the Siding, Red Green style

My housemates and I tear vinyl siding off my house- inspired by the “Adventures with Bill” segment of the Red Green show.

Build Green for Lifelong Savings

Green building is a design process that grows out of a connection with the natural landscape. It is a set of informed decisions that considers the site and materials to reduce the cost, maintenance, and energy usage of the home. Conservation is central to the green building approach. Green homes are healthier, safer, [...]

Making It Even Easier to Go Green

Although the word “natural” is among the most commonly found words in recent trends in home improvement, it does not always go hand-in-hand with cost effectiveness. As eco-friendly products become a more popular commodity and more available, prices of those products are decreasing, with savings not only limited to immediate project costs but also long [...]

What is a Green Carpenter

Nowadays, the campaign to save Mother Earth is everywhere. The Earth Hour was initiated around the world to conserve energy through simultaneous turning off electricity-consuming equipment. Almost any household product has modified into using non-toxic and ozone-friendly components. There are various ways of implementing environmental consciousness.
The career outlook for a green carpenter is good. They [...]

The 4 Basic Elements to Building a Green Home

Green building is more than the actual construction of your home, though that is a big part of the process. It is a beginning to end process which begins with the selection of your land, the design of your dream home, the materials and practices used during construction and finally, how you operate and maintain [...]

green Architect Rob Paulus. 2/2 Interview

/ Developer Rob Paulus, AIA, elaborates on; recycling material from his Ice House Lofts project to his Barrio Metalico housing, developing on railroad tracks, the term he coined “responsible density,” rainwater harvesting, HardiPlank Fiber Cement Siding and pre-aged galvanized siding. Paulus also discusses interstitial space between buildings, precedents which have influenced his work, his design [...]

Go “Green” with Green Modular Homes!

Homes have a major effect on the overall ecological integrity. The constant usage of natural resources depletes their quantity from Mother Nature. If continues like this for a long time, the day is not far when there will be scarcity of these resources. As resources becoming scarcer and environment more polluted, there is a legitimate [...]