Conscious construction plans from FreeGreen
Starting a new home from scratch? FreeGreen offers free residential green design to create sustainable house plans. FreeGreen bring home design to a new level. While most of the architectural industry...
View ArticleGreening the Gardiner Expressway
Hearing this on the news yesterday intrigued me – a Toronto architect has proposed to the city that the Gardiner Expressway should have a green roof. This “green roof” is actually a seven kilometre...
View ArticleBehold the Great Pearl
Society marvels at the spectacles we create, from the CN Tower to the largest tower Burj Dubai. We love our projects and the things we make that let the world know how incredible we are. Talk about ego...
View ArticleBuild a villa in just three days
Feeling ambitious? Perhaps you’d like to build a villa in, oh, three days. Don’t think it can be done? Think again. A few folks over at vimeo recorded the entire process of building an eco-friendly...
View ArticleEco-drywall, soundboard and windows – oh my!
In the pleasant city of Sunnyvale, California, some serious materials need some serious exploration. Serious Materials is a green product company that focuses on EcoRock, QuietRock, SeriousWindows, and...
View ArticleHiring a green siding contractor
And when we say green, we don’t mean a newbie. We mean a siding contractor who recognizes and follows a strict code of building for eco-friendliness. If preserving the environment means something to...
View ArticleUp on the roof: gardening in the modern age
Chances are your grandfather came home from work and spent an hour unwinding in the backyard, watering his tomato plants or picking lemons off the tree. Of course, you live in a city now, or a condo...
View ArticleRA Headquarters Gets FSC® Partial Project Certification
Our friends from the Rainforest Alliance have some exciting news! Building on their longstanding commitment to sustainability, they have newly announced new headquarters in New York City achieved FSC...
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