Tag: recycled
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Caverly Couple Creates Clothesline Tiny Homes
Carrie and Shane Caverly built their first tiny home last year to reduce their overhead from a $1500 per month mortgage payment to $350 per month, which includes land rent, electricity, and water. The Caverly’s eco-friendly 204 square foot home is built on a 5th wheel gooseneck trailer and features passive solar design, closed cell…
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Certified Passive House in Oregon Maximizes Reduce-Reuse-Recycle Concepts
The founder of Oregon-based STUDIO-E Architecture, Jan Fillinger, is a Certified Passive House Consultant and LEED AP who has over twenty years experience in sustainable design, including the use of sustainable and non-toxic materials, integration of energy-efficient building systems, and the design of site- and climate-responsive buildings. Switzerland born and raised, with a Master of…
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The Sarah House Project Will Provide Shipping Container Shelter for Low-Income Families
Jeffrey White, a real estate agent who resides near Salt Lake City, Utah, is spearheading the Sarah House Project, a nonprofit, community-based organization that aims “to provide fast, green minded, safe, affordable homes for the underserved.” Built from converted, recycled shipping containers and named for a San Francisco artist who succumbed to cancer, the homes…
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Everything Old is New Again: Furniture with a Repurpose
Here are some of our favorite designers who salvage and repurpose discarded materials into art that functions as furniture. Take some inspiration from these artists and get creative in your workshop. There are lots of ways that you can make everything old become new again! Gruba Repurposes Wooden Roller Blinds Gruba is Argentinian architects Gabriel Pires…
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Sustainable CAFquiet Studless Wall System Provides Eco-Friendly Acoustic Protection
Sustainable construction materials manufacturer, Stramit USA, has introduced an interior partition system called CAFquiet™ Studless Wall System, made from their proprietary compressed agricultural fiber (CAF) board, which requires no studs to install unique, noise-insulated interior environments. Included in the GreenBuilder Editor’s Choice Hot 50 Products for 2013, CAFquiet walls are manufactured from agricultural waste to…