Vanadium: The Next Big Thing for Solar Energy Storage
In some circumstances you really can have too much of a good thing, or so utility company representatives are saying. With the cost of energy continuing to rise, more homeowners…
Innovative Rolling Flowerpot from Spain for Healthier, Happier Plants
Just when you’re thinking one can not re-invent a flowerpot… it happens. Some genius Spaniard, while sipping on Sangria during noon siesta, looks at the plant that is half bathing…
Old Greenwich Home Project Reveals Surprising Benefits of Building with Styrofoam
While Styrofoam may be just about the last thing that comes to mind when it comes to eco-friendly materials, it turns out that it can be used to build a…
How Dutch Integrate Photovoltaic Cells (Solar Skin) into Building Materials to Preserve History
The innovative Dutch have once again prevailed with an impressive green technology that they’ve unveiled to the world. In the Netherlands’s constant effort to encourage cultural energy-neutrality, a team of…
Unorthodox Urban Luxury or an Insane McMansion Built from 31 Shipping Containers
Talk about a place worthy of Guinness Book of Records and you might as well add a 6000 square foot house in Graceville, Australia that was built out thirty one…
The New Compressed-Earth-Blocks are Earthquake Resistant, Energy Efficient and Cheap, but Will they Pass the Longevity Test?
In our quest for a greater sustainable living we have looked to the future for the clean, green technologies to provide us with the requirements of an ever-expanding human population.…
Homes from Marijuana Plant – Exponentially More Efficient and Sustainable Than Lumber
Eco-conscious lifestyles are no longer the choice of just “hippies” and “tree-huggers.” More and more folks are changing their way of living in order to leave a smaller footprint and,…
The Ultimate Urban Recycling Project – Bay Bridge to be Reborn as a House
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, metal to… a new house? When the city announced plans to demolish the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, many mourned the…
Radiant House Opts for Bamboo as the Renewable Source of Material
A team of students from Santa Clara University designed the 980-square foot Radiant House which was entered in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2013 Solar Decathlon. While their entry did…
Prefab Straw-Bale Buildings are Out to Conquer With Efficiency and Comfort
You can huff and puff but you won’t blow these straw houses down. Prefabricated straw bale construction might sound like something from “The Three Little Pigs” but it’s an innovative…