Blu Homes – Continued Growth in a Down Economy
Tue, 17/11/09 – 22:34 | Comments

It is no secret that real estate has been in a state of decline for a while now and that decline has extended into what seemed to be a booming rebirth of prefab homes.  The …

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daily stuff – October 30, 2007 – 21 things you didn’t know you could recycle.
Tue, 30/10/07 – 9:01 | Comments
daily stuff – October 30, 2007 – 21 things you didn’t know you could recycle.

This is new today over at Sustainabuild.com and I feel that it is a very worthy topic for today’s daily stuff.

Ellen Reid over at Sustainabuild has posted the
21 things you didn’t know you could recycle. …

daily stuff – October 29, 2007 – Green homes CAN be affordable.
Mon, 29/10/07 – 9:47 | Comments

A wonderful article was published in the Arizona Daily Star last week. According to the article 24 student architects are building 5 affordable homes that are using passive design features to create 5 affordable green …

daily stuff weekend edition – October 26, 27 & 28, 2007 – Hello from Planet Bob
Sat, 27/10/07 – 7:27 | Comments

Yes, this is a 3 day weekend edition. It is my birthday this weekend, so I am taking a day off! Woo Hoo!
Enjoy today’s video clip and Greetings from planet Bob. Taxonomy is …

daily stuff – October 25, 2007 – Read the primers and make the commitment.
Thu, 25/10/07 – 20:36 | Comments
daily stuff – October 25, 2007 – Read the primers and make the commitment.

Over at the Hinkle Chritable Foundation Website they have launched the Pure Waste Series Challenge. The idea behind this challenge is that you commit to the three changes they ask and they will donate …

Japanese Wall
Wed, 24/10/07 – 20:27 | Comments
Japanese Wall

I stumbled upon this this evening over at materialicious.com. This is a do it yourself type project where you can create a non-toxic stucco or plaster for both inteior or exterior walls. It …

daily stuff – October 24, 2007 – Rainwater Catchment
Wed, 24/10/07 – 17:13 | Comments

Have you ever wondered where all that water goes once it runs off your roof? Maybe you think that if only you saved a little from the last rainstorm, you could keep those flower pots …

Aldo Leopold Legacy Center – A very cool building.
Tue, 23/10/07 – 10:22 | Comments
Aldo Leopold Legacy Center – A very cool building.

I came across this building in a post at treehugger.com. It is beautiful and amazing and will produce 110% of it’s own energy needs. It features everything from Active Solar to Earth Tubes …

daily stuff – October 23, 2007 – What can we do? The right thing! That’s what.
Tue, 23/10/07 – 9:45 | Comments

As I read the news today and see the horrors of the fires in California, the melting of the ice caps and the stories of the drought in Georgia, I wonder really what we can …

daily stuff – October 22, 2007 – Would you live in an airplane?
Mon, 22/10/07 – 17:32 | Comments
daily stuff – October 22, 2007 – Would you live in an airplane?

Well, it seems that the topic of late has been of alternative methods of building and I have found yet another. A Student pavilion made from an old 747.

Designed by LOT-EK, this …

Build the bulk of a home in a day.
Sun, 21/10/07 – 13:31 | Comments

There are pre-fab homes and stick built homes and then there are pre-fab stick built homes like the one in the vdeo below.
I stumbled upon this video over at materialicious.com and thought it was pretty …

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