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Quote of the Day: Scott Adams on Green Building

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Not exactly Scott Adams’ new green home, but the one he designed for Dilbert. Dilbert creator Scott Adams writes about his new house in the Wall Street Journal: The greenest home is the one you don’t build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that’s already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don’t want. Don’t brag to me about riding your bicycle to work; a lot of energy went into building that bicycle. Stop being a hypocrite like me.

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Is Industrial Monoculture the Real Path to Sustainable Farming?

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Amanda Friedman/ NRDC Some have been wondering whether Obama is really on the side of sustainable farming or industrial agriculture . Others, however, are busy wondering whether industrial agriculture really is sustainable farming after all. In a provocative piece written for the NRDC, one reporter argues that large-scale monoculture must be part of the solution to greener farming if we are to have any hope of digging out of the mess w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Clayton’s i-house 2.0: Reading Between The Lines To Find The Future Of Prefab

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Preston at Jetson Green shows us Clayton Homes’ i-house 2.0, a larger version of their green modern prefab introduced two years ago (and seen in TreeHugger here ). It is a handsome design, beautifully presented. But while Preston says that “I-house has been insanely popular”, another source noted in the spring that “Apparently, Clayton’s hotcakes are sti… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bird-Friendly Glass Designed With Help From Spiders

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photos from Arnold Glas There’s a terrible feeling you get when a bird smacks into a window, at the office or at your home. “What was that?!” You look outside, and see a dead or injured bird on the ground. Birds can’t see glass, and windows on buildings are a major cause of avian fatalities around the world. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There’s such a thing as bird friendly glass, believe it or not. A German company called Arnold Glas makes Ornilux, and recently collected an international design award for its spider-web ins… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Madison Childrens’ Museum "Focuses on Sustainability from Inside Out"

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ever since Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim opened, the museum scene turned into a world of crazy starchitect one-upmanship, with lots of flash and not a lot of sustainability. Childrens’ museums are a little less flashy and more green; the Brooklyn Children’s Museum by Rafael Vinoly is LEED Silver, and the brand new Madison Children Museum will likely top that. They start their green pitch with a quote from Richard Moe : “The … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Biogas From Waste, Direct to the Consumer: It’s Vegan Too!

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Ecotricity As I wrote last week, just because bio-gas is made from biodegradable sources doesn’t mean it has no impact —and some activists are increasingly worried that demand for biogas will eventually lead to deforestation and other resource depletion issues. So they’ll be pleased to know that Ecotricity, the folks who are now selling biogas direct to British consumers , have made a public commitment to only buy gas made from resources that… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Traditional" Design Meets Passive House Efficiency In Oregon

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images via owners’ website Most Passivhaus or Passive House designs we have shown on TreeHugger have tended to be modern, but Sarah Evans and Stuart Rue tell Green Building Advisor that “We wanted our house to fit in with the surrounding neighbourhood.” At Jetson Green, a commenter make… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can Great Design Redeem the Parking Garage?

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image Courtesy of: archdaily.com Parking garages are generally considered to be a necessary evil: necessary because everyone drives; evil because they are usually drab, ugly concrete structures that take up valuable urban space. Yet in recent years, architects and designers have been working to counter this view , by adding solar panels, giving preference to hybrid cars , and g… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Bird’s Nest Tree House at the Treehotel Hides Among The Branches

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

TreeHugger has previously admired the Almost Invisible Mirrored Tree House Built In Sweden at the wonderful Treehotel , but it is only one of six remarkable structures. Another way of making oneself less visible and intrusive is camouflage, the approach taken by Bertil Harström of Inredningsgruppen ; He covers his suite in sticks and makes like a birds nest…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Global Cooling Myth Debunked (Video)

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Space4Case Why do some climate skeptics continue to claim that the earth is in the middle of a ‘global cooling trend’ despite the fact that every reliable source — NASA, NCAR, NOAA, etc — has shown temperature records proving otherwise? Why do climate deniers seem to revere satellite data? And why do some skeptics still blame global warming on solar activity? All interesting questions — and all are answered thoroughly in the video after the jump…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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