A very cool modern looking home in Madison Wisconsin, love the design. It was one of the first Platinum rated LEED homes in Wisconsin. It was designed by the Atlanta-based architecture firm Richard Wittschiebe Hand, a collaboration between Carol … [Read more...]
The Depressing Demise Of Flexible Solar PV
Sadly, as we've been going through all of our files on green energy and renewable technologies we came across what was at one time touted as the best design idea for solar, since, well, ever. One of the biggest problems that every architect or home … [Read more...]
Piling The Roof With Solar PV
First of all, we want to make it abundantly clear that anyone who takes the time and effort and the thought and writes the check for putting solar on their house gets a big round of applause from us. That said, we are even better fans of those who … [Read more...]
The Air Stalagmite For Helping to Clean Up City Pollution
Not so much architecture in the traditional sense of this is where we live and work, but architecture as practical application or tool, the Air Stalagmite is conceived as a tool for helping to clean up pollution. The conceptual project makes quite an … [Read more...]
A Very Typical And Nicely Done Solar Installation
As we roll out our first couple of articles and posts on renewable energy and climate change, those planned are not so much super exciting, relatively plain in fact. While there are some very cool ideas for integrating solar and wind power in to our … [Read more...]
The Treehugger View Of Elon Musk’s Master Plan
Treehugger has taken their own version of breaking down the bigger picture ultimate vision of how Elon Musk see's our future. This is one of those articles that's just better if you read the whole thing. … [Read more...]
Just Officially Started Our Green Living Section
So it's well in to 2016 and it's just now that we're officially launching our Green Living section, kind of sad right? Well, better late than never. It's not for any particular reason that we haven't had a green living section as of yet, more to do … [Read more...]
California Desert Garden And Planters
Yeah, so most of California and a whole heck of a lot of the rest out west is actually a desert, maybe we’ve forgotten that after all these years of greening the West Coast. In the past couple years the drought has really done a number on gardens and … [Read more...]