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Green Building : Jetson Green
www.jetsongreen.com
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A daily updated magazine that's obsessed with green building and everything related to it, including sustainable architecture, good design, green prefab, and eco-friendly development.
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Light 12-Glazed Window on the Horizon

In the USA, most windows are probably single- or double-glazed and some builders will use triple-glazed windows for Passive House and other high-performance homes. But in Hanover, Germany, a 12-glaze...

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Teragren Grows Strand Bamboo Floor Line

Teragren, one of the largest manufacturers of bamboo materials based in North America, recently expanded the popular Portfolio line of floating, strand bamboo flooring with the addition of “Por...

1 day ago

Reclaimed Wood with a Rainscreen Install

I’ve been following Matt Risinger’s blog for about a year, because he’s sharing great videos about high-performance homes in Austin, Texas. Take this video about using old pine sidi...

1 day ago

Starck Sweeps in with Emeco Broom Chair

Broom is another chair made by Emeco and Philippe Starck, but this one isn’t made with aluminum. As explained by Starck: “Imagine … a guy who takes a humble broom and starts to clea...

2 days ago

Green Appraisal Guide, Banning Plastic, Designating Prefab, + Build Eco-Friendly

New guide helps green appraisers. Fab idea: designating a prefab steel house. LA becomes the largest city to ban plastic bags. Old or new houses: which are most energy efficient? LEED homes lead the ...

4 days ago

Warburg is Simple, Modern, and Efficient

There’s something about the traditional yet contemporary “house-shaped” form of this design that just resonates with me. The home was designed by an Alberta-based studio called Bioi...

6 days ago

Micro Guest Cottage with a Green Roof

Continuing the theme of tiny structures this week, I think this office cottage on Bainbridge Island is just awesome. The compact, 200-square foot space was designed by Russ Hamlet and built by Geoffr...

6 days ago

Built in Germany, Assembled in Eight Days

Here’s a time-lapse video of one of the first Huf Haus prefabs in the country. Offered through Cleveland-based DotGreen, these homes are precision built in Germany and shipped in containers to ...

24 may 12

New Blueair Air Purifier Just Makes Sense

This the new Blueair Sense designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune. It was designed to shatter barriers in the bland world of air purification with a contemporary design, touch-less control, compact size,...

23 may 12

Tiny Modern Leaf House in the Yukon

Speaking of tiny houses, check out Version.2, which is the second tiny house built by Leaf House and Laird Herbert in Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon, Canada. Herbert appears to be on a roll because...

23 may 12

Ohio Modern Tiny House for the Lofty

Adam Leu has the height of an NBA small forward, 6′ 7″, and wasn’t satisfied with just a standard tiny house. So he modified a couple plans by tiny-house enthusiast Michael Janzen a...

22 may 12

Philips Has a Neat LED Flood Light Too

I spent some time in the home improvement stores this weekend and noticed a newer bulb from Philips designed to replace the standard flood light. The BR30 LED bulb is Energy Star compliant, delivers ...

21 may 12

Bright Home Ideas, Dishwasher Efficiency, Simple Cost Savings, + Home Solar Subsidies

Goodbye, Watts. Hello, Lumens! The latest bright idea for home lighting. Savings are as easy as changing a light bulb. Green features in a wheelchair-friendly footprint. DOE released new efficiency r...

20 may 12

Live Screen Vertical Garden for the Home

The Live Screen will make its debut at Wanted Design in New York City this weekend. It was designed by Danielle Trofe and relies on a hydropic, self-watering configuration to create a stylish and sus...

18 may 12

LEED BeachHaus I Prefab in White Rock

This is BeachHaus I in the White Rock area of British Columbia. The home (like the neighbor, BeachHaus II) is on the market, should you have an interest in a luxe, modern, prefabricated home with inc...

18 may 12

Debate: Mechanical vs Passive Strategies

The stage was set for rowdy debate of the tensions between mechanical and passive green building techniques at the recent Congress of the New Urbansim. Steve Mouzon, designer and author of The Origin...

17 may 12

Nido is a Finnish Micro Cabin on the Lake

News of this 96-square-foot micro cabin was first published at Tiny House Listings a few months back, though you may start seeing it on sites all over the web. The tiny house was conceived and built ...

17 may 12

Paar House Takes National Green Award

This home by North Carolina-based Chandler Design-Build was named Project of the Year in the Small Volume Single Family category of the 2012 National Green Building Awards. Certified to both Energy S...

16 may 12

Low-VOC Light Sheetrock for Easy Install

It turns out lighter gypsum wallboard sells well. In July 2010, USG Corporation tested the market for Sheetrock UltraLight panels, which are anywhere from 15-24 pounds lighter per panel depending on ...

16 may 12

Clayton Homes Intros Home Energy Guide

Clayton Homes, maker of the popular i-House, is the largest producer of homes in the country and accounted for 7% of homes constructed in 2011, according to the annual report of parent Berkshire Hath...

15 may 12

SpinRay Offers UL Listed Solar Appliance

This is the first and only UL-listed, 120-volt, plug-and-play solar kit in the world, according to SpinRay Energy. The DeckPower120 comes with one, 240-watt solar panel and can be hung on a deck or e...

14 may 12

Efficient New Homes, Enormously Overbuilt, Container Contention, + Ecological Games

Game over for our climate. Upset over a shipping container house. Planners say U.S. is overbuilt in big houses. Path dependence and the stupidity of LED light bulbs. Does a green credential matter fo...

13 may 12

Reclaimed Barn Wood that is FSC Certified

If you like the look of reclaimed wood — and you might, it’s really popular right now — then Pioneer Millworks should be on your radar. The company, located in Farmington, New York ...

11 may 12

Connect Homes to Reinvent Modular Prefab

Today, two prefab veterans launch their website for a new company called Connect:Homes with a mission to “deliver modern homes that are affordable, green, and available wherever your are.”...

10 may 12

GE Debuts 100-Watt Replacement Bulb

Today GE introduced a new and innovative 100-watt replacement bulb that uses only 27 watts with the help of LEDs and jet technology. The Energy Smart bulb won’t be available until the first hal...

09 may 12

Efficient Round Prefab in British Columbia

This is the first Energy Star qualified home in British Columbia, according to builder Mandala Homes. The company’s been around since 2000, and this is their new, round showcase with passive so...

09 may 12

Live from CNU 20 beginning Wednesday!

While typically focusing on the dwelling unit here at Jetson Green this week we’ll widen our lens to the urban realm and context of our communities at the 20th Congress for the New Urbanism in ...

08 may 12

Design to Embed Value in a Home [Interview]

I caught up with Brian Phillips, principal of Interface Studio Architects, in Miami recently while he was down as a visiting critic at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Based in Philade...

07 may 12

Energy Efficiency is Pervasive These Days

In findings presented at the NAHB’s National Green Building Conference and Expo in Nashville, McGraw-Hill Construction said more than 80% of builders and remodelers responded that energy effici...

07 may 12

Lean Green Eco-Home, Anti-Solar Utilities, Container Living, + Energy Audit Savings

A lean and green eco-home. Energy efficiency is pervasive in new homes. An energy audit can save thousands of dollars. Old Victorian home gets a LEED Platinum makeover. Don’t let utilities unde...

06 may 12

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