Tag Archives: Living Building Challenge

The Living Building Challenge is kicking my butt!!!

Posted on May 21, 2011 by annamadeit

Imagine that you are cooking dinner, but you are restricted to only using ingredients sourced from within a geographical radius of 500 kilometers. That’s a tad over 310 US miles. This would mean that if you use salt, you would … Continue reading →

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One quick amendment…

Posted on April 6, 2011 by annamadeit

After sleeping on it, I would like to make one small amendment to yesterday’s blog posting on green roofs. Sometimes, there actually exists a good reason not to employ the glorious expanses of chlorophyll I gushed so extensively about in … Continue reading →