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Ten Green Building Myths

Setting the record straight on common misunderstandings…
Just for fun, I’ve rounded up ten oft-repeated statements that are either half-truths or outright falsehoods. I’m sure some readers will disagree with my conclusions; if you’re one of them, don’t hesitate to post a comment.

Strange that I needed to find out about this accident through a foreign source, 3 months after the fact… but there you go.  Thank you internet.

The Alstonvale Net Zero House (in Hudson) burned to the ground late May.  Word on the street (i.e. stuff I gleaned from this article) leads people to believe it was […]

 
Ten years ago, Gale was a builder and flipper of office parks who would eventually become known for knocking down the Boston landmark Filene’s Basement and replacing it with a hole in the ground. But Gale’s fate began to change in 2001 with a phone call from South Korea. The Korean […]

Is this guy overreaching yet
Milking the the successful run of Holmes on Homes, Mikie has since built a home in New Orleans, ‘wrote’ a home Inspection Guide, launched a Home Inspection show… and now… a magazine.

I’m a sucker for all things reno, the way I figure, if even one thing in the magazine can save […]

I just received a note regarding a course being offered at the end of September in Montreal.  Hosted by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities it will involve the following topics:

Identifying the costs and benefits of green roofs to reach your green roof performance goals;
Identifying a variety of green roof products and understanding the performance criteria […]

Tasty lobster rolls in a shiny cool box!  Anyone try this shop out yet?  You have to watch the neat vid on their site.

ok.  Quebecers went from using 5 million plastic bags a month to 1.5 million a month after major grocery stores started charging a nickel per.  Nice.  Here’s the next step/leap.  Time to move way past the small stuff and rethink our construction practices.  We don’t need to reinvent anything during the design process, there are […]

check check check it out.
www.greenbuildingadvisor.com
Plenty of examples/references and green porn to keep you busy.

As mentioned below by faithful commenter ‘the milliner’ people are often looking for alternatives to the way it used to be.  That being not giving a shit about the products we ingest or bring into our homes.  Options are becoming more readily available for every recipe, for every project.  Take plywood, please.
Columbia, North America’s largest […]

We took part in Montreal’s Urban Ecology Centre sponsored event a few weeks ago and attended a few great workshops like:

Heat island effect and how to cool the city
Cote-St-Luc’s pilot (now going full steam ahead) compost program
Green roof design
Eco Habitation presentation on building greener

Part of the Heat island effect workshop involved a little tour of […]

treehugger notes some of the highlights from this years governor general awards.