Something for Nothing
New-home blue prints go green, and are free for the asking.
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Flex Your Mortgage
Get more bang for your homebuying buck with an Energy Efficient Mortgage.
Little Boxes
Turning around the big home trend–and a few who are taking small living to the extreme…
My Green House Is Bigger than Yours
Eco-mansions are helping to relieve guilt from the Hamptons to Palm Beach.
A House Made From Paper
Forget the old saying that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Now you can live in a “papercrete” house (made from recycled paper and Portland cement) that’s so strong stones won’t make a dent.
The Hydrogen House: Fueling a Dream
In Scottsdale, Arizona, Bryan Beaulieu, an engineer and inventor with 20 patents in structural systems, recently built a $2 million solar-and-hydrogen-powered "dream" house. Though not Scottsdale’s most expensive residence, the 6,000-square-foot luxury home is—by far—the most environmentally sustainable.
New Life for Old Floors
New Life for Old Floors: Alternative Materials Add Character to Home Designs. Have you considered wood, cork, linoleum or bamboo?
The Green Scale
In sizing up a prospective house, more and more homebuyers are asking themselves how the property rates on the green scale…
Greening Habitat for Humanity
In the fall of 1995, a group of architects, environmentalists and builders converged on Atlanta for a symposium on encouraging low-cost green home design in the non-profit sector. "There’s nobody out there really focusing on affordable green housing," says Global Green USA Executive Director Matt Petersen, whose group co-sponsored the conference with Habitat for Humanity, the Department of Energy (DOE) and several private foundations.