Many people are unaware that the blue jeans worn by your favorite celebrities may end up in your walls. No, not as trophies from an auction house, but as insulation to keep out the cold.

Of all people, we’d expect David Gottfried to max out on alternative energy and water conservation. After all, he founded the U.S. and World Green Building Councils, and his Oakland, California, home recently earned the highest-ever LEED Platinum certification and GreenPoint Rating.

Bamboo. Can’t go a day without somebody telling us he’s walking on it, sleeping on it, cooking with it, knitting with it, writing letters on it, or wearing it.

Unless you’ve been living in a dirt-floored cave for a decade, you already know that bamboo is a great, green alternative to hardwood flooring. Classified as a grass, bamboo can grow as much as 12 inches a day, and after being cut, will renew itself in as short a time as three to five years—much [...]

There we were. Our first winter in our straw bale home, gloating over its super-efficient R46+ insulated walls—that’ll keep those cold Canadian winters out! But winter came, and at night the house cooled off more quickly than we expected. So what gives? Turns out, our windows were the culprits. Pretty quickly we learned that windows [...]

We do house tours here at the Nolalu Eco Centre in Ontario, Canada, and whenever a group comes into the garage, I can pretty much count on someone looking up to the ceiling and asking, “what is that gray stuff up there?”

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Great floors do not just serve a function. Natural cork happens to be a floor covering option that substantially enhances the ecological sensibility of the space. Cork is a renewable resource that is harvested from the bark of the tree every nine years, causing no damage to the tree.
The cork oak tree primarily [...]

Innovative Mix Reduces Use of New Resources by 70%
NORCO, Calif. – In the constantly evolving building industry, there is more pressure than ever for builders to adhere to green-building standards and to qualify for The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System project points.
To easily make at least one aspect of [...]

Leading bamboo producer teams with Grammy-honored John Mayer, Barenaked Ladies, Guster, Sixthman and Reverb for environmental education and rock cruises
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. — Cali Bamboo, the company committed to saving the planet one customer at a time, is co-sponsoring the Barenaked Ladies’ Ships & Dip III and Mayercraft Carrier music cruises with Reverb. [...]

Green building supplies, services and solutions now readily available for commercial and residential builders and homeowners in New Jersey
NEWARK, N.J.–Green Depot (www.greendepot.com), the Brooklyn-based supplier of environmentally friendly and sustainable building products, services and solutions, today announced the opening of its newest showroom space in Newark, NJ.