By Robert Fryer on July 21, 2010
Dubbed the “Electric Razor”, The Strata Tower is another first for London Architecture. It’s a residential building, with below-market-rate units mixed with market-rate units. It is linked with mass transit, too. By the way, it’s in Elephant & Castle, Southwark, London. You can read more here. Will this be a new trend in green architecture? [...]
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By Rob Fleming on June 24, 2010
How architects are resistant to change and are loosing out on the future because of it Over the years I have found architects generally resistant to change. Starting with the huge fight against computer aided design to the bemoaning of ADA requirements, to the outright negativity towards sustainability, to the bashing of LEED and lastly, [...]
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By Robert Fryer on June 22, 2010
SHOCKING! In case you haven’t noticed, what people say and what people do are often very different. Ok, so human nature is not new, but the Shelton Group’s Eco Pulse 2010 is. And its findings on the public’s view of the environment and green products are . . . surprising. Like 65% of those surveyed [...]
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By Rob Fleming on June 15, 2010
Now is the time for going green . . . at least as far as your house is concerned. There has never been and, perhaps, never will be a better federal incentive programs than right now. The window, though, is closing fast (pardon the pun). The federal government will offset your costs for home improvements [...]
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By Chris Pastore on May 7, 2010
The pending arrival of the Nissan Leaf got me thinking about cars and the environment again. (BTW my previous post on the Prius vs. the Hummer is here). Considering that for many of us an automobile is a necessity, we have a new range of choices in automobile purchases to minimize the impact. High efficiency [...]
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By Robert Fryer on April 23, 2010
As the readers of this blog know, I am highly suspicious of the well meaning, yet misleading and short sighted green home and lifestyle tips peddled at other websites and in books. That’s why I write in the Lifestyle and Green Hacking parts of this site that you must target the big wins first and [...]
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By Robert Fryer on April 6, 2010
If you’ve automated your home as discussed in Step 1, you’re ready to optimize. Make it Automatic – Then Optimize Optimization is just fine tuning your settings. See how far you can turn down the heating temperature at night. Then see how far you can turn the heat down during the times you’re actually using [...]
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By Chris Pastore on March 25, 2010
I’ve written previously about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The idea of LCA is relatively new, becoming popular in the 1990s and continuing to grow. When the basic concept of LCA was burgeoning in the industry, it was a considered to be a good tool to support sustainability claims that could eventually be used for marking [...]
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By Robert Fryer on March 25, 2010
In the second teleseminar of our series on home efficiency, I spoke with Mike Cronomiz of Re:Vision Architects. Revision is an award winning firm that’s been involved in sustainable architecture well before most people heard of it. The firm watched as their clients went from needing to be educated about sustainability to seeking out and [...]
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By Rob Fleming on February 23, 2010
Over the years I’ve watched families attempting to green their home and lifestyle, only to see them become annoyed and frustrated with relatively small achievements and incremental progress. To those families, I offer the picture of green living as a marathon, not a sprint. The Marathon Green living comes along slowly as a combination of [...]
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