Our job sites are cleaner than most. We barely have any of the normal toxins. Formaldehyde, nasty glues, paints, thinners and all the other chemical toxins are pretty much absent from our job site. We buy stuff that is free of those toxins when possible. And if not then we find a way not to […]
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What makes a Brownstone green? Eco Brooklyn focuses on building green brownstones in Brooklyn so this is a question I ask on an ongoing basis. Below is a changing and non-hierarchical list of what I think makes a Brownstone green. The list contains things that fulfill the following things: Less monthly costs to the owners
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OK, so you’ve built a nice green kitchen. You’ve got your recycled wood cabinets, your Energy Star appliances, and your cork floor. You’ve invited some friends over for organic pasta. So just like Grandma used to cook pasta you fill a large pot full of water, right? WRONG! Grandma also smoked two packs of cigarettes
Here is a cool app courtesy of NaturalHomes.org. It shows all the natural homes in the world (at least the ones they know of, which is probably one tenth the real number). The map at first only shows the US, but we’ll forgive them their nationalism in light of our recent and proud presidential election.
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I just posted the straw bale web site as “web site of the week”, but that poses a problem because I find more than one good web site a week. So this one is web site of the day: NaturalHomes.org Great site. Check it out. ‘Nuf said!
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Hemp is touted as a wonder plant that cures all and builds all. Apparently you can make pretty much anything from it: soap, cars bodies, walls, glue, boats, you name it. Not that I would know since hemp is the forbidden plant cursed to spend it’s life with pot heads (a very dreary existence believe
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You might not have heard of the Ontario Straw Bale Building Coalition, in fact you may not even realize you needed to know about them. But the truth is that the world is a better place with them. Knowing such an organization is out there protecting straw bales world wide should give you a warm
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I found this great survey on toilets. Veritec, a testing company, tested 700 toilets for flush power, water savings, bowl size, flapper size etc. Now this might not excite most people but when you are looking for the most water efficient toilet that also actually flushes everything down this study is amazing. 13th-edition-full-toilet-veritec-report It shows
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Dumpsters, Job Sites, Garbage Night Streets, Damaged Store Stock, Craigslist, Neighbours, Salvage stores, Ebay, our building… these are some of the places we get our materials from. The rules are simple: it needs to be dangerously close to being sent to the dump or once used. Here are some of the things we have saved:
We have these old rickety stairs in the show house. They are good craftsmanship but have had to endure a hundred years of big Italian boys bouncing up and down them. And they are old, old and tired. We need to keep them, though, because the space is too steep and windy to be accepted
