Do You Have A Construction Project We Can Help With?
WOM: Water Organizing Module
Distribute the fresh, potable drinking water through the building at code required pressure. Water from the city, cistern, your well, etc. can all be hooked up to the WOM. Automated systems can manage the connection to multiple water sources
Efficient homes come from Town Planning & Regulations
Our homes may be a source of safety, comfort and stability — but they also represent a considerable slice of our country’s carbon emissions (over 20 percent, according to the latest estimate from the U.S. Energy Information Administration). Addressing
How to Make Your Town more Sustainable
1: START A TRANSITION GROUP "There's a really good guide that we created called 'The Essential Guide to Doing Transition'. It's free and is a simple starter kit where we've tried to distill everything that we've learned from 12
Financing Sustainable Projects
Bank of America's Ela Eskinazi on financing sustainability projects Ela Eskinazi is the head of business development in the United States for ESG & Environmental Finance at Bank of America. For her, with almost all of the world aligned around
Passive house challenge – The Ice Box Challenge
The Passive House Standard for low-energy buildings is being put through its paces in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market. The Ice Box Challenge involves putting two identical 720-kilogram blocks of ice under two separate structures – one built to the
Affordable and Efficient Housing
What is Affordable Housing? Conventional Guidelines advise 1/3 of income budgeted for housing. This can be looked at as an affordable amount to spend on housing. Affordable means something different for each and every one of us, so 1/3
How to Be Sustainable in Eight Steps
Hang on to your smartphone The little computer you carry with you requires a lot of energy to assemble. The production of an iPhone 6, for example, released the equivalent of 178 pounds of carbon dioxide, or about as
Why America’s New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same
Cheap stick framing has led to a proliferation of blocky, forgettable mid-rises—and more than a few construction fires. These buildings are in almost every U.S. city. They range from three to seven stories tall and can stretch for
Toilet Paper is bad, Here is what to use instead.
Having access to soft, fluffy toilet paper is one of those modern conveniences that makes life in the 21st century that much easier. But did you know that using this luxury could be doing more damage to the environment than driving
Books & Drawings
School Courses
