green514.com

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 […]

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

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

In the end, 99% of developers just want to build and sell homes and attain maximum profit.  After all, it wouldn’t be a capitalist society if that weren’t the case.  This usually manifests in cookie cutter developments based on for the most part poorly designed model homes built quickly and cheaply.
But what if they could […]

Speaking of green reno, here’s a great little post with some pertinent comments comparing the carbon foot print of renovating an existing home versus building a completely new one.

Obviously there are numerous variables they didn’t take into account, like the quality and commitment of the renovator, the choice of materials and technology as well as […]

Here are some ‘local’ bright spots in the green flooring ring.
Logs End recovers lost timbers from rivers, lakes and streams that were roadways during the logging era. Not only have we adopted a “zero waste” policy for the lumber we harvest, but we are truly committed to the “environmentally sound” retrieval of submerged logs […]