The Sustainable Building Sourcebook is a collection of information and sources of materials, assistance, and further research on many aspects of sustainable construction and remodeling.

Stone Age Expeditions. Primitive Survival Skills. Books. Hide Tanning. ...

Technologies and practices that improve the energy and resource efficiency of commercial and multi-unit residential buildings A building professional's guide to more than 90 environmentally-appropriate technologies and practices. Architects, engineers and buildings managers can improve the energy and resource efficiency of commercial, industrial and multi-unit residential buildings through the ...

Sustainable Architecture, Building and Culture: A unique compendium of links and content oriented to the global community of ecological building proponents.

The Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide educates and assists architects, building owners, occupants, educators, students, and the general public concerning sustainable building design. The Guide is a design tool that can be used to overlay environmental issues on the design, construction, and operation of both new and renovated facilities. It can be used to set sustainable design priorities and ...

Greenhomebuilding.com focuses on sustainable architecture, natural building, solar energy, ecology, water and forest conservation, recycling, greenhouses, adobe, cob, strawbale, cordwood, papercrete, earthbag and vernacular architecture, with related resources of books, videos and links.

The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) software brings to your fingertips a powerful technique for balancing the environmental and economic performance of building products. Developed by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Building and Fire Research Laboratory with support from the U.S. EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program and the ...

Information on green building design and construction including case studies, project design, programs and partnerships, links to related web sites, and information on related California Integrated Waste Management Board activities is offered. Sustainable building activities related to government action with a highlight of the tasks being implemented by the State Sustainable Building Task Force ...

Building an environmental green building design, eco construction products, passive solar energy, sustainable architecture, strawbale books design portal.

Green Buildings Recent Additions | Contact Us | Print Version Search: EPA Home Green Buildings Home EPA's Green Buildings Energy Efficiency and Renewables Green Building Materials Indoor Environment Water Conservation Waste The buildings in which we live, work, and play protect us from Nature's extremes: cold, heat, wind, rain, and snow. But these structures affect and shape our environment ...

Resources dedicated to the advancement of green architecture, focusing on Residential Environmental Design, and how both relate to architects, designers, contractors, and homeowners.

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Join us on our adventure to build a cordwood house in Minnesota. Day Creek Journal is updated almost on a weekly basis as we build our house step by step.

GREYWATER What it is ... ways to treat it ... ways to use it. Greywater is washwater EXCLUDING toilet wastes blackwater. Many sanitary engineers maintain that all wastewaters are alike and require the same treatment. This notion is not supported by the research data currently available. There are very significant distinctions between greywater and toilet residues; for how these wastewaters ...

Sustainable Architecture This page describes current and future documents in our Sustainable Architecture Compendium. As finished documents are published for each of the five modules, we will make them available here. Currently, final editions of the entire Introductory, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Building Materials, and Recycling and Reuse modules are available online. You are welcome to ...

Natural sustainable low cost construction methods such as strawbale, earthen materials, natural-timber, -stone, and -plasters, recycled materials, and more ...

Green eesign sustainable architecture information sources.

Netzwerk fur alle Bereiche des solaren und okologischen Bauens. agsn ist ein Netzwerk mit dem Ziel, der Umweltzerstorung in allen Bereichen der gebauten Umwelt entgegenzuwirken.

The Healthy House System is a Water Treatment System, capable of reclaiming water from sewage suitable for reuse flushing toilets, for irrigation and other uses.

May 10-19, 2002 in Portland, Oregon -- natural builders converge from around the country to create structures of cob, strawbale, cordwood, etc. in an urban setting.

RESEARCH OUTCOMES . Durability, Adaptability and Energy Conservation of Buildings Guidance document . 'Design for more sustainable buildings - durability, adaptability and energy conservation issues' Outcomes main page Guidelines for the design of more sustainable buildings: durability, adaptability and energy conservation issues Reason for the guidelines: Preserving and creating the built ...