Articles tagged “Green Building Supplies”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

The Greenest Green Schools Around the World By Rachel Cernansky IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 14 2011 Sustainability is on the rise worldwide, and schools are no exception. From Bali to Brazil, green schools are on the rise, physically and academically. + READ MORE

Five Colorful Ways to Bring Boring White Walls to Life By Craftster.org IN Home & Garden Nov 9 2010 If you live in an apartment with strict no-painting rules and you are tired of white walls, here are a few innovative ways to bring color to your space without doing permanent damage to your walls, or your pocketbook. + READ MORE

Meet Greg Memo, CEO of GreenWave Reality By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect Jul 1 2010 As GreenWave’s CEO, Greg Memo is passionate about putting his tech smarts toward sustainable home efficiency. Memo started his undergraduate studies in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University before leaping into several computer savvy stints at Apple, Compaq, Alta Vista, Gateway and Cisco. + READ MORE

Energy Efficient Homes Are The Stars Of The Future By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Apr 23 2010 Are you in the market for a new home? If you are, you are not alone. Millions of new homes are built every year. How will all of the materials needed to build and sustain these new homes accommodate our dwindling and limited natural resources? + READ MORE

Recycled Metal Tiles Make An Impact By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Jan 15 2010 Recycled Metal Tiles are an impressive eco-choice for kitchen backsplashes and countertops. + READ MORE

Top 10 Myths and Misconceptions About Green Building By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Nov 2 2009 Find out the biggest misconceptions of green building. + READ MORE

How Sturdy are Solar Panels? By Steve Thomas IN Home & Garden Aug 21 2009 Can solar panels survive hurricanes and other forms of severe weather? Steve Thomas, host of Renovation Nation, explains. + READ MORE

How to Shop for Green Building Materials By Steve Thomas IN Home & Garden Jul 15 2009 Green building has unified as a number of separate disciplines into one rubric which we call green building. LEED has emerged as the standard nationwide. Therefore, products are being developed to satisfy these LEED green building standards. + READ MORE

How to Convince Your Family Contracting Business to Go Green (Video) By Steve Thomas IN Home & Garden Jun 15 2009 On the Tucson episode of Renovation Nation we featured a father-and-son contractor team. The son, Nathan Kappler, was poised to take over his father's business. Working with your father can be rewarding. However, from a business standpoint, working with your father is always challenging, because you're going to want to establish your independence as a young man. + READ MORE

Scavenging Makes for an Affordable Eco-Renovation By Steve Thomas IN Home & Garden Jun 5 2009 Corey and Deb Omie from the Rock, Paper, Scissors, Concrete Episode, were doing really interesting stuff. While they were renovating their home, they were concerned about staying within the home's existing footprint. + READ MORE

Teaching Kids the Sustainable Lessons of Bamboo By Steve Thomas IN Home & Garden Jun 5 2009 I cannot stress enough how much of a game changer bamboo is. There are 15,000 species of bamboo. It grows all over the world, except in the Arctic and the Antarctic. + READ MORE

Support Green Buildings with Steel Framing By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden May 18 2009 When you picture most domestic homes being built, you probably think of people raising mighty wooden beams. This is the way that many houses are built. Nowadays, you can frame your home with steel. Although steel framing doesn't instinctively sound eco-friendly, it can help a home last for generations. + READ MORE

Building with Bamboo is Changing Everything (In a Good Way) (Video) By Steve Thomas IN Home & Garden May 7 2009 What's amazing about bamboo is that it will quickly grow to full maturity, so it is harvestable in three or four years. The new stalk begins growing immediately, so they'll shoot up about sixty feet in the course of a year. The bamboo then spends the next three years getting thicker and stronger. + READ MORE

What You Need to Know About Composite Decks By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden May 7 2009 If you're thinking of building a deck for your backyard, then may be considering composite decking. You may have heard that composite decking is resistant to rot, made without toxic chemicals and is environmentally friendly. Composite decks can, theoretically, be all of those things, but there are some drawbacks and some pitfalls that you must avoid in order to get a long-lasting, problem-free composite deck. + READ MORE

Add Personality to Your Home With Repurposed Lumber (Video) By Steve Thomas IN Home & Garden Apr 29 2009 Steve Thomas is the host of Planet Green's Renovation Nation, a program that focuses on making green renovations to homes across the country. In his regular column on PlanetGreen.com, Steve goes behind the scenes of the show and offers additional tips and insight on green renovation. + READ MORE

Build a Fence with Biocomposite Wood By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Apr 21 2009 Let's say you want to build a fence or a porch. What material would you use? I don't know you, but I am going to guess that you would use wood. Makes sense. Wood is a strong material, organic, pleasant to look at. Whoa, there! Don't go to the lumber yard just yet. There is a new porch and fence material on the market that might be a bit greener than wood. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Light Switch By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Mar 30 2009 Remember when you were a kid and you'd flip the lights on and off really fast and your mom told you that it would start a fire? Apparently, that's mostly superstition. Although theoretically possible. + READ MORE

Eco-friendly Casino Tables? By Seth Leitman IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 5 2009 When I met Eric Hansel and learned about his company EGM Green and his product, I realized that the casino industry does green its lighting as much as it can; yet it is not really known for its poker tables being green. EGM Green also has a consulting side to the business which is split into 2 major parts: energy consumption,... + READ MORE

Steve Thomas to Appear on EcoMan and the Skeptic Radio Show Today! By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 19 2009 Steve Thomas, host of Renovation Nation, is scheduled to make a guest appearance on the sixth episode of EcoMan and the Sketpic, a web radio show about sustainable design and green building. The live show airs today—February 19th, 2009—at 3 PM on the Green Talk Network. + READ MORE

Recycle Your Broken Surfboard, Get the World's First Recycled Board By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Travel & Outdoors Feb 18 2009 Somewhere in between catching that sweet wave and hauling yourself up onto the shore, your surfboard suffered a quick death. But instead of chucking the board in the nearest dumpster, let Oceanside, CA-based ReSurf Recycling make it into something new. + READ MORE