Planet Green
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Steve Thomas goes to Portland, Oregon to help the Moon Brothers with their goal of building the greenest house in America. They used salvaged materials and reclaimed wood to make their project a green one. Then, Steve helps a Boulder, Colorado couple update their home's style from rural to urban, with sustainable building materials from their own backyard.
Get Behind the Scenes Info and Project Ideas from this Episode:
- Steve installs steel wall frames and wood reused from pallets.
- Steve checks out a composting toilet.
- Steve cuts down a tree from the homeowner's own forest and mills it for a windowsill.
See photos from the building process in Building the World's Greenest Home and a Rural to Urban Renovation
Read more about this episode in Steve Thomas's Journal
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Products and contractors featured in this episode:
Phoenix Composting Toilet System
Reserve Steel
res communis
Dan Odell: Sawmill
HumaNature Architecture, LLC
Ecoscape Design
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