College Saves $33,000 on Energy a Year

If you knew how to save $33,000 on energy every year, would you keep the secret? Morrisville State College in the USA certainly won’t keep the secret. They have just created a Renewable Energy Training Centre where they will teach the students about many ways to harness the alternative energy and live...

Cave Houses – The Ultimate Green Design

There are many ways to approach green home design. Probably one of the cheapest and the most sustainable is to live in a dwelling provided by nature. Let’s get back in caves. Honestly, we are no better than the Neanderthal man – about the only difference is that we have learnt to use the internet...

Burn a Corpse, Save a Tree

What is East Sussex up to? They plan to turn a crematorium into a power plant. Hastings Crematorium will have a £800,000 system installed that would convert the waste heat from filtering devices into reusable heat or electricity. So you see, it is not as grim as it initially looked. There will be no such...

Saving Money with Green Buildings

The general perception is that building green means higher operational cost and delays in schedules. This is just a perception and in most cases it is wrong. If you do it correctly and stick to the initial plan and budget, it can be quite beneficial in a long run. We are talking here both commercial...

Green Home Rebuilding

Although we have seen an advance in modern building technologies, majority of us still live in pre-war buildings and the question of green remodelling becomes more and more actual. According to some marketplace estimations, we in Britain spend over 20 billion pounds on refurbishments, house improvements and...