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Recent Posts Tagged With 'green building'
CitiLog – upcycled and repurposed lumber
New Jersey based CitiLogs is a leader in the business of upcycling and repurposing trees into finished wood flooring, cabinets and other wood products. When builder Tom Fitzgerald realized that large trees on a building site he was clearing could b...
Turbine Boss – prevent attic vent heat loss
Homeowners who have turbine attic ventilators, (those spinning fans on the roof of one’s home), lose a lot of heat in the winter when warm attic air gets sucked out by cold outside winter temperatures. Covering or sealing the vents can caus...
copper sinks can kill germs
Here’s a new reason to go with a copper sink in you kitchen; recent studies have concluded that copper possesses the ability to kill up to 99 percent of bacteria, including super bugs like MRSA, within two hours of contact. Research also has ...
BCV’s “new ruralism” approach to design
Baldauf Catton von Eckartsberg Architects, or BCV Architects for short, is a design firm that has taken a “new ruralism” approach to sustainability. The expression “new ruralism” – conceived by Sibella Kraus at the Institute of Urban and ...
PNC Unveils Largest Green Wall in N. America
Financial services company, PNC, has found a way to save energy and make a big green marketing statement with a massive green wall installation on the south-facing wall of One PNC Plaza at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Wood Street in downtown Pittsb...
Aquidneck Properties - Swede Hill eco home
Though probably out of most folks’ price range, this 3,000 square foot home does show where luxury green building can take us. The Swede Hill home, to be designed and built by Aquidneck Properties, looks like it packs a design punch worthy of...
IceStone - recycled glass and concrete countertops
Operating out of their renovated factory in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, IceStone creates great looking, highly durable surfaces for both homes and commercial spaces. IceStone’s products are created with 100% recycled glass in a cement matrix via ...
bungaloo - eco-friendly color liquids, er…paint
Can paint be hip? New eco-paint purveyor, Bungaloo, makes the analogy that color, much like music, can dictate mood and enhance one’s mental well-being and attitude. Hence their new line of vibrant, youthful, zero-VOC “color liquids&#...
EcoSmart Fire’s - Mini T ethanol fireplace
It almost feels like fall here in NYC - time to start thinking about extending our alfresco dining and outdoor socializing as the temps take a dip and the autumn leaves begin to fall. One solution - an eco friendly designer outdoor fireplace. The...
itHouse - off-grid prefab with style and substance
The sexy itHouse is a design system created by L.A. based, Taalman Koch Architecture. The eco-friendly home is comprised of a series components manufactured off-site. The home, which is designed to be flat packed and easily shipped, is prefabrica...
Loblolly House - a prefabricated vision
The innovative Philly-based architectural firm, Kieran Timberlake, has created a vision in prefabricated home design, the Loblolly House. Integrated into its environment, readily assembled and disassembled by a wrench - is this the future of prefabr...
the OfficePod - small footprint garden office
Are the kids zapping your home office productivity? Is your commute killing both you and the environment? This small office concept from U.K.-based, OfficePod, is a one-room workspace that is designed to be placed in your backyard, garden or pati...
solar power on a pole
Coming to a neighborhood near you - a great way for most utility companies to integrate solar power into their existing infrastructure. New Jersey’s Petra Solar, Inc. has announced it will be producing 200,000 smart solar systems for installa...
Lloyd Russell’s Rimrock Ranch House
Architect Lloyd Russell’s Rimrock Ranch House is a tasty blend of practical functionality and sustainable style. The home sits 4,500 feet above sea level in the California desert outside Palm Springs. Russell, who describes his design aesth...
