GreenBuildingAdvisor is hosting a free online discussion by author and green building innovator Alex Wilson.
Alex will be discussing leading-edge strategies for achieving net-zero-energy homes, transportation energy use associated with where we live, the looming challenge of water, passive survivability as a residential design criterion, and thoughts on incorporating food production into the built environment. Today's economic crisis makes this discussion all the more important and points to the ...
by Kate Dellas - Apr 10, 2009
Here at Small House Style, we celebrate all things sustainable design. So it goes in keeping that we provide examples of sustainable living practices suitable for those that can’t simply pack a suitcase and shack up in some sweet little cube in the woods.
Designers Site-Specific and Buatalah Studio designed an exhibition that extends the bubble, welcoming families into the trends of small house living. The “Green Home Effects” ...
by Rosalind Chaplin - Apr 9, 2009
If you’ve ever wondered whether small house living has a place in university life, students in Germany say, yes! Since 2005, the Technical University of Munich has hosted a student “village” of Micro-Compact Homes (otherwise known as m-ch). Each term, six students and professor/architect Richard Holden populate the tiny village of transportable prefabricated dwellings.
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