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Tag Archives: Materials
From field to finishes – agricultural waste transformed!
In a world of dwindling resources, shrinking forests and threatened ecological habitats, it is more important than ever to embrace sustainable, environmentally sound alternatives, and find ways to reduce waste. In my quest to become a full-fledged locavore, and make … Continue reading
Posted in Cool building materials, Local interest, On Design
Tagged Building, creativity, environment, Green, Interior Design, LEED, Materials, Renewable, Resources, sustainability, TorZo surfaces
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The beauty of clean, Green E-board – put the leftovers on your roses!
Did you know that we here in the U.S. throw out 221.7 million tons of garbage – every DAY!!! A whopping 20% of that comes from the building and construction industry! So not surprisingly, when I find a product or … Continue reading
Posted in Cool building materials, Environment, On Building
Tagged construction, drywall, Green, Green E-board, Greenewall, magnesium oxide, Materials, non-toxic, silica
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Celebration of the times before the big disconnect – how the old masters selected wood
I spent my childhood summers on a farm in a rather desolate part of northern Sweden. At one point, much later in life, we were looking into moving a small grain storage barn on the property. It was situated a … Continue reading
Posted in Cool building materials, Culture, On Building, Scandinavia
Tagged Building, history, lumber, Materials, Nature, Swedish, timber, Traditional, Trees, wood
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The Living Building Challenge is kicking my butt!!!
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
Posted in Creative pursuits, Environment, Green Living, Health and Safety, On Building, On Design
Tagged Beauty, efficiency, Energy, Equity, habitat, health, Living Building Challenge, Materials, non-toxic, plumbing, red list, sharing, site, Water
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How cool is this? Super-strong, über-green German building material!
November 18, 2010 Sometimes, just considering the awe-inspiring properties of some of the new materials available on the market, offers an exhilarating exercise in beautiful possibilities! For the collective benefit of us all, brilliant engineers at the German company Consido … Continue reading
Posted in Cool building materials, Green Living
Tagged Architecture, Building, cellulose, Consido AG, Design, environment, Green, Haiti, honeycomb, light-weight, Materials, non-toxic, Pacific Green Innovations, Swiss Cell
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Vinyl fences – yuck!
18 September 2010 Okay – here is my first real rant… For weeks, on the way to my kids school, I kept passing a highly skilled stone mason at work. Day after day, I watched him go about his work, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Gardening and Landscaping, Green Living, Health and Safety
Tagged Building, Curb appeal, Design, fences, Health and Wellbeing, Materials, off-gassing, toxic, Vinyl
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We’re Running Out of Helium!
5 September 2010 While working on the decorations of my kids’ school’s fund raising auction a while back, I was struck by how expensive helium has become. I found the cost had more or less doubled since the previous year! … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Green Living
Tagged balloons, Bush administration, helium, Materials, National Helium Reserve, natural gas, Non-renewable, Resources
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