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Japanese Shell House Saving Trees

This unique project by ARTechnic architecture studio from Japan is not classified as a green home mainly due to the concrete used for its dome shell. The reason why I’m showing you this picture is to illustrate how one can work around the trees in a way that’s not intrusive to the environment and...

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Simple Tips for a Greener Home Office

With a growing number of people now working from home, the onus lies increasingly with freelancers as much as giant corporations to cut their carbon footprint in the workplace. Whether you’re looking to set up a new home office or want to green up your existing home...

Random Pattern in Parquet Flooring

A California-based architect studio Sutton Suzuki Architects has showcased an amazing villa that they’ve built in Hawaii. It’s a magnificent building but the thing that caught my attention was the lounge/diner area. If you look at the parquet flooring, you’ll see...

How to Shop for Green Roofing Materials

In our attempt to reduce our carbon footprints as greatly as possible, many are looking to various ways to update their homes whether it be solar panels or more efficient insulation. While these are great ways to reduce the amount of money spent on utility bills and...

Leaf Blower is Worse than a V8 Off-Roade...

According to a very exciting experiment by Edmund’s Inside Line, a leaf blower is extremely unfriendly for the environment. For this test session they picked a Ford F-150 Raptor 4×4 with a 410BHP V8 engine, a small “eco-friendly” Fiat 500 with a...

Now is the Time to Install Solar Panels ...

With the conventional gas and electricity prices on an inevitable rise, the question of sustainable energy future is on the agenda of many families. Although just a few years ago solar panels were considered scientific fiction, today thousands of households in Britain...

Green Home – Green Car Concept in ...

In mainstream sustainable construction, we are still dreaming about carbon neutral homes. In Germany, they’ve built an experimental house that claims to be a surplus energy house. Not only it is self-sustainable, thanks to the massive photovoltaic elements on the...

Wooden Sink for your Eco Bathroom?

This luxury wooden sink is produced by a Swiss company Ammonitum from specially prepared wooden rings that are glued and pressed together. To achieve water resistance, the sink is dunked in mordant solution and then covered with 10 layers of special varnish. The latter...

Architecture and Global Population Timel...

We’ve come up with this infographic showing the timeline of the global population and architecture. Here you can see how urbanisation, deurbanisation and various architectural styles has gone hand in hand with the population numbers. We start at 10,000 BCE with 1...

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Eco Homes

Although the concept of eco houses has been around for decades it's only the recent years that green home design methods are being actively explored and applied. Building eco houses is great fun and it makes sense both for the sake of environment and from the point of living-space quality. Living in a green home is much healthier and more comfortable. Regardless of whether you're a DIY enthusiast or actively researching issues related to eco houses, on this site you'll find valuable advice and inspiration for sustainable construction. We have a great guide on eco friendly materials and a convenient map of architectural salvage yards in Britain.