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Picture this: It’s a hot and humid summer day. You head for the indoors and some relief from your trusty air conditioning (A/C) system. Three hours later, you’re slightly cooler, but you’re wondering why your A/C unit hasn’t shut off yet. . . . → Read More: Don’t Let Your Roof Take the Heat Bookmark to:
           A note from our friend Bruce King: Friends and colleagues – I’m very happy to tell you that ASTM International has approved publication of revisions to ASTM E2392, Standard Guide for Design of Earthen Wall Building Systems. This has been a four year project for me and for the Ecological Building Network, and you . . . → Read More: ASTM Standard Guide for Earthen Wall Systems Bookmark to:
One important guideline for sustainable building is to use materials which are locally abundant. Another guideline is that waste from one system can often be utilized as feedstock for another. Shipping containers are abundant in the US due to current trade imbalances and are therefore inexpensive pre-built modules which some enterprising people have begun . . . → Read More: New Topic: Shipping Container Housing Bookmark to:
In an unfortunately too common incident of bureaucratic lack of common sense, an Atlanta area microbrewer 5 Seasons had to switch back to city water after officials couldn’t find any regulations on rainwater use in their books and concluded it must therefore be illegal. According to our source the brewery “could have dug . . . → Read More: Atlanta area rainharvesting microbrewer can’t use rain Bookmark to:
It’s now possible to add your company in the Resource listings in the right hand column of the Sustainable Building Calendar! Now that it’s available as an RSS Feed (allowing other sites to automatically display the next 20 events on their own web pages) the Calendar is quickly becoming even more popular than it . . . → Read More: Resource listings now available on Calendar Bookmark to:
ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2008) ˜ Houses made of hemp, timber or straw could help combat climate change by reducing the carbon footprint of building construction, according to researchers at the University of Bath. More… Bookmark to: Bookmark to:
We’re happy to report that Dick Peterson, a 15+ year veteran of Austin Green Building who spent a fair bit of that time advocating, educating, and advancing rainwater harvesting in Central Texas has agreed to join us in the Harvested Rainwater section. Dick will be keeping that section up to date and is . . . → Read More: Dick Peterson joins for Rainwater Q&A Bookmark to:
Sustainable Sources founder Bill Christensen will be leading a straw bale wall raising in conjuction with DesignBuildLive.org on September 12th outside of Wimberley, TX (about 50 min SW of Austin). Hope to see you there! (Originally scheduled for Aug 22) Full and registration at http://designbuildlive.org/ Bookmark to: Bookmark to:
Not exactly green building, but sustainable none the less… As long time proponents of edible agriculture and local foods, we were delighted to find the article Neighbors and Fruit Trees by Jim Hightower. The the websites referenced, www.fallenfruit.org, www.forageoakland.blogspot.com, www.neighborhoodfruit.com, and www.veggietrader.com all look useful, though the latter two are probably the ones I’m . . . → Read More: Neighbors and Fruit Trees Bookmark to:
We just added links at the bottom of each page to a dozen social bookmarks: del.icio.us digg reddit newsvine stumbleupon google bloglines ask live-msn facebook myspace twitter Did we leave your favorite out? Let us know! Bookmark to: Bookmark to:
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