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A great TED talk by inventor, surgeon and all-around brainiac Catherine Mohr on building green. In a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house — looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter most? Not the ones you [...] A feel-good elevator short, this film brings together local Washington state and national leaders in green building, climate change, manufacturing, and work-force development to make the case for green buildings capacity to create jobs and boost the economy while not further imposing on our environment. The transcript is available here. For more info about the [...] KJ and I just watched Gargabe Warrior and we recommend it to all interested in green building. Oliver Hodge’s award-winning documentary chronicles the life and work of visionary Michael Reynolds, the radical architect-engineer who has been designing and building self-sustaining, eco-friendly homes out of disposable materials for 30 years. Battling opposition from bureaucrats, politicians and big [...] Jay Shafer doesn’t like to vacuum… so he lives in a Tiny House. Here’s a short tour (it’s a small house, so the tour is quick). I especially like the very end when the videographer giggles a girlish giigle and says, “Show me your ass.” But that’s just me. What do you like about the Tiny [...] From Inhabitat: The final results just rolled in from this year’s Solar Decathlon, and team Germany’s sleek surPLUShome finished first in an incredible upset victory! The German team took top honors in the Net Metering and Engineering categories this morning, steamrolling the competition to secure their second Decathlon win. This year’s home features a sleek, dark [...] Here at Smart Energy Advisor we haven’t made a big deal out of it, but Karen is an alumni of the national Sustainable Building Advisor program. As her blushing groom to be, I like to brag about that from time to time and the NSBA program folks just handed me the opportunity, as their marketing [...] I produced this video tour of the Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Garden at Washington State University. It’s a cool garden, and I love it that I was able to give two interns work on this piece. For the sake of efficiency, I’m a big believer in mimicry, in not reinventing the wheel. In what is ultimately a pitch for his new book (which I’ve ordered and will review here), Jerry Udelson implies our thesis, that there’s an urgent need for a rapid knowledge transfer from Europeans to Americans as regards smart [...] Cool, 11-minute film from San Diego public TV, providing the basic rationale for green building in a visually appealing elevator speech. An explosion in green building is underway, with cleverly engineered libraries, office buildings, even public housing projects popping up across the Bay Area, and championed as much by landlords trying to cut energy and water [...] Check out the Caveman Energy Caucus (from whence the quote below) and then write them to give them hell. When it comes to America’s energy future, there’s a simple choice to be made between OLD and NEW. The members of the Caveman Energy Caucus made the wrong choice. They chose OLD energy when they voted no on [...] |
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