Green Building Art

Have a big blank wall in a green building but don’t know what to do with
it? The social and environmental values underlying green buildings are spurring innovation in art. A great example is the Mangrove Wall at the Miami Science Museum. Conceived by artist Xavier Cortada, the wall began with volunteers collecting mangrove seedlings. The [...]

Water restrictions are no match for green building principles

 Submitted by: Taylor Ralph, RealBuilding, LEED AP, Green Building Consultant
While the rain begins to hit our roofs almost daily—those afternoon showers that simultaneously cool things off yet make our air more humid—consider the fate of this precious source of water for our region…
Our water infrastructure includes the design of expensive, and extensive, storm water management [...]

Green Prefab Housing

The June 2, 2009 issue of USA Today(page 5D) has an article, “Prefab homes now sprout green designs.”  This article features Michelle Kaufmann, a San Francisco Bay area architect who first designed her own manufactured green home and then went into business building them for others.  The article gives other examples and states that building [...]