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zBoards: The Answer To Our Plywood Prayers?

Published by Vanessa Brunner on September 11, 2009

In the never-ending search for answers to a sustainable lifestyle, home building and decorating is often a source of confusion and compromise. However, some innovative designers have decided to not only green their products, but to make them better than their less eco-friendly counterparts. zBoards is a product born of this kind of innovation.

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The Healthy Home Corner: An Introduction

Published by Paula Baker-Laporte on February 02, 2009

For this first in a series, I would like to tell you a little about myself and the journey that has led me to specialize in the design of biological homes.

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The Real Cost, The Real Deal

Published by Martha Danly on November 21, 2008

Michelle Kaufmann is the real deal. Recent winner of the Social Venture Network’s 2008 Innovation Award, Michelle is known for her prefabricated green home designs that brilliantly balance our need for sustainable design, beauty, and affordability. For Michelle, there’s no need for tradeoffs when operating within the right set of principles.

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Transforming the Prefab Home Using Principles of Sustainable Design

Published by Marina Hoag on October 14, 2008

Prefab – the word itself evokes 1950s suburban Levittown, cheap-and-cheesy, practical plywood boxes. Emergency housing at best, drab habitation for human hamsters. But look now: pre-fabricated buildings are having a Cinderella moment. Driven by the sustainable design movement, ‘Prefab 2.0’ is a vast improvement over the dreary mass construction methods of the past.

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HDR Architecture Reinvents the Patient Experience for Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Published by Green by Design on April 16, 2008

San Francisco, CA – The groundbreaking in January 2008 for the new Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD) Hospital, United Arab Emirates, inaugurated the much-anticipated hospital of the future. The CCAD hospital is a steward for the architecture of humanity, a building that employs the latest technologies, patient-centered care and evidence-based design to assist in healing [...]