Spartan-style tiny homes are popping up everywhere across the country. Call it what you will: a shift towards sustainable living; a natural response to a recessed economy; a necessary move by a generation burdened by enormous debt. Whatever it is, the movement is...
We can't get enough tiny homes here at Renovate Your World. For starters, they require clutter-free living. And we're all about zero clutter. They're also super-green, which is world is in dire need of. So we turn our attention to husband and wife team Shane and...
It gets 100% of its energy from solar panels and 100% of its water from rain harvesting. It's the Bullitt Center office building in Seattle, and with its recent opening it is being considered the greenest office building in the world. The 50,000 square foot building...
The architects at 1:1 Arkitektur would like us to believe that they have built a home of the future. And we may just believe them. It's not so much the home itself that is futuristic but the manner in which it was built. And that manner itself does not involve...
According to Builder Magazine (online), the arrival of two HUD programs that attract private investors to energy efficient incentives spells headway for the green mortgage industry. One program is called the Energy Innovation Fund, which will award $25 million in...
Caving under member pressure and stakeholders, the USGBC recently announced that the ballot for LEED 2012 has been pushed back to June 1, 2013. It will also be renamed LEED v4. A message from USGBC President, CEO & Founding Chairman Rick Fedrizzi lays out the reason...
There's an interesting backlash against LEED that's underway. If you follow TreeHugger, you'll remember a recent piece about the Sustainable Forest Initiative's movement to get the Federal Government to drop LEED. Now there's coverage of the Plastics industry making...
Home Depot and the USGBC recently announced the launching of an online green home products database. The site is leed.homedepot.com and will be a "microsite" on homedepot.com that will feature products within the green home building family. Some of these products will...
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced its annual LEED for Homes Awards, which recognizes projects, developers and home builders who have "demonstrated leadership in the residential building marketplace." The awards will be presented today during the...
Congratulations to The University of Maryland on winning the Solar Decathlon 2011. Maryland placed first out of 19 teams, edging out the runner up (Purdue) by a little under 20 points. My alma mater, Middlebury, came in a respectable 4th, climbing up from their 8th...
