Articles tagged “Green Building”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

World's Greenest Homes Episode: Eco Manor By Team Planet Green IN Worlds Greenest Homes Oct 2 2008 Manny visits the home of Ted Turner's daughter and her family, a brand new, sprawling Tudor mansion in Atlanta that is one of the largest eco-homes in the US. Next, since zoning laws prevented them from building up, a... + READ MORE

Ron Shank: A Voice From Greensburg By Team Planet Green IN Greensburg Sep 30 2008 Ever wonder what it is like to see your home, town and business torn asunder by a monster tornado? The clatter, the crashing, the stomach-knotting fear, the destruction, the desolation, the despair, the loss. Then to see it all rebuilt... + READ MORE

Interview with Jodi Murphy, Host of Planet Green's Total Wrecklamation By Team Planet Green IN Wrecklamation Sep 30 2008 Planet Green: What did you do before you became the Diva O? Deconstruction? Jodi Murphy: I've always run my own business, because...c'mon who would work with me? Who could work with me? I barely can! Entrepreneurship started innocently enough with... + READ MORE

Learn from Seattle: 3 Green Reasons to Build A Drainage System and Prevent Erosion By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 30 2008 Some people live in Seattle. This is a fact. You can go to Seattle and people will be there. They will be in shops, driving cars, playing badminton and relaxing near displays of frozen custard. It's like a real city. Rain continuously falls from the sky there. You'd think a place like that would be nearly inhabitable, but over 500,000 wet people call it home. + READ MORE

Keep Your Home Green and Dry: 5 Easy Waterproofing Tips By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 30 2008 Water is the universal solvent. It is also one of the most important resources on the planet. Water is dichotomous. It can destroy cities, drown swimmers and capsize boats, but it can also sustain crops, refresh the thirsty and clean anything. Water is a force of nature. + READ MORE

Check Out 3 Cutting Edge Insulations By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Sep 30 2008 Traditional housing insulation can be pretty scary. Even as a child, when I would venture into our unfinished attic the chemically loaded insulation made me itch. Those chemicals that made me itch are also hard on the environment. Avoid insulating materials that include chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) because they are ozone-depleting compounds and a source of pollution. Whenever possible, consider insulating materials made from recycled materials. + READ MORE

Jodi'isms By Team Planet Green IN Wrecklamation Sep 30 2008 Total Wrecklamation's Jodi Murphy is known for her high-energy pursuit of the greatest finds any about-to-be-demolished building has to offer. In the midst of an auction she has also been known to use her own vocabulary, one that borders on... + READ MORE

3 Reasons Building a House of Stone is Eco Friendly By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 29 2008 Some of you might be thinking about building a house. Remember the Three Little Pigs? One of the pigs built a house out of straw, another sticks and another stone. Straw, in an ironic twist, turned out to be a rather good building material, but stone has always been a good building material. Sticks, however, are a horrible building material, unless you are a muskrat. Here are three reasons to build a house made out of stone. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Adaptive Reuse By Team Planet Green IN Tech & Transport Sep 29 2008 As the term implies, adaptive reuse can be defined as "the adaptation of an existing structure for a use different from its original or previous use, e.g. the conversion of an office building into apartment units." While it's not green in the strictest sense of the philosophy, the concept of adaptive reuse inspires and provokes humans to rethink the seemingly endless cycle of tearing down and rebuilding. + READ MORE

3 Ways to Green Your Rental Apartment Without Getting Evicted By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 26 2008 There are many downsides to renting. Landlords can be a real pain. I had this landlord who would complain because I was always almost late with my rent. That means, technically, I was always on time. There's just no accounting for some people. + READ MORE

Inside the Alter Eco House (Slideshow) By Team Planet Green IN Alter Eco Sep 26 2008 Features of the House: Certification: US Green Building Council LEED "Platinum" Home Candidate ? Highest rating in the world for a green home. Flooring/Carpeting: Reclaimed hardwood flooring from Carlisle Floors in Beverly Hills Reclaimed Jerusalem stone floor in the... + READ MORE

Greensburg Season 1, Episode 13: Back on the Map By Team Planet Green IN Greensburg Episodes Sep 25 2008 The town has a lot to celebrate when a once-in-a lifetime national award puts Greensburg back on the map. The last days of summer see the opening of a pool and a blow-out 4th of July party as Greensburg looks... + READ MORE

Raise the White (Light Reflecting) Roof—Fight Global Warming By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 24 2008 In grade school, we all learned that white reflects heat and black absorbs it. There would always be that one kid on the playground who would chide you for wearing a black shirt on a hot day. Did you listen to that kid? Probably not. He seemed weird with his white shirt and Square One lunch box, but he was actually ahead of his time. + READ MORE

Renovation Nation Episode: Maine, Steve Thomas's Barn Roof By Team Planet Green IN Renovation Nation Sep 23 2008 Today Steve will show you how he's building green. Steve proves that wood is good by building an eco-friendly timber frame barn in his own backyard. He'll get the lumber farm a local sustainable lumber yard, but getting it... + READ MORE

Why Use Fiber Cement Siding Instead? By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 15 2008 Fiber cement siding is just one of many home-improvement materials that have been featured on Renovation Nation. It?s not a miracle product that fixes holes in the ozone or brings the dodo back to life. It?s just a practical cladding for your house. Think of it as coveralls for your home but pretty, like the coveralls Will Smith used to wear on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. + READ MORE

Build a Smaller, Greener Home By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 15 2008 For the longest time, bigger houses were considered better houses. This makes sense. In the olden days, the days before the Industrial Revolution, people would marry very young and have copious amounts of children. These children were expected to help out the family farm. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins may have also lived and worked on that farm. A large family required a large house. Even in cities families would clump up and survive or fail as a whole. It may have been a wonderful, loving thing that we have lost, but even still, I'm glad I don?t live with my entire family. + READ MORE

Alter Eco Episode: Work of Art By Team Planet Green IN Alter Eco Sep 5 2008 Boise takes a turn supervising construction at the Green Team's HQ as the workers prep for a key city inspection. Angela & Darren green over Rick's favorite downtown art gallery with LED lighting, high-end sustainable furniture and a giant eco... + READ MORE

G Word Episode: Ice, Ice Baby By Team Planet Green IN G Word Sep 4 2008 In this episode - an enormous deep freeze holds ice samples with clues to our atmosphere's past and future; ancient building material straw gets the 21st century eco-friendly treatment; Robert Kennedy Jr. leads us through an amazing school dedicated to... + READ MORE

Greensburg Webisode, Vol. 11: Shane's Car By Team Planet Green IN Greensburg Sep 4 2008 This webisode finds Shane Engelken hard at work building a cabin for his 82-year-old grandfather. Since he did not qualify for the low-income apartments in town, Shane's family decided to build him a log cabin, something Shane's grandfather has always... + READ MORE

Renovation Nation: Insulation Tunnel By Team Planet Green IN Renovation Nation Sep 2 2008 Host Steve Thomas visits a renovation project building a cistern to hold harvested rainwater. We learn that, once collected, the rainwater can be used to satisfy the gray water needs of the neighboring house. When Steve climbs into the tank... + READ MORE