Don't drop your wallet in this toilet. Or your pants.
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The toilet from St. Thomas Creations in the video below doesn't qualify for GreenSpec — it's a 1.6gpf toilet (the federal minimum), and GreenSpec requires 1.28gpf or less — but it sure is fun to watch it flush stuff. (More fun than miso in condoms, anyway.) What do I mean by "flush stuff"?
BuildingGreen Bulletin: More Than Buildings — March EBN
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Twice each month, BuildingGreen publishes an email news bulletin with current news and product information briefs. Sign up here — it's free. We will never share or sell your email address, and you may unsubscribe at any time.
Read the current bulletinSustaining the Existing Building Stock
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Greening our existing building stock has taken new prominence recently, both as the green building community grapples with the general economic slowdown along with the new construction slowdown, and as we get more real about what it will take for the building sector to slash our carbon emissions.
If you're coming to the AIA convention in San Francisco April 29 – May 2, I want to invite you to a wo
Cleaner and More Efficient Wood Burning
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A CENTRALLY LOCATED WOOD STOVE and an open floor plan work together to heat this well insulated home. Tending a stove is not as convenient as turning up the thermostat, so homeowners have to be willing to do the extra work. On the right site, a well managed woodlot could provide a perpetual source of fuel that costs no more than the labor to cut and stack it.
Wood is a renewable fuel and, assuming that new trees grow up to replace those cut for firewood, it is carbon-neutral, meaning that it doesn't have a net contribution to global warming.
Redux: What do you do when a good product has bad stuff in it?
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About three weeks ago I posted here about a product that decreases heat loss, decreases installation time, provides a termite shield, prevents damage, is cost-competitive, and is partly made with PVC. We ended up listing this product in GreenSpec, and to our members' credit, we got some pushback.
Stuff is "Partisan and Liberal"
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In December 2007 I posted about a video called The Story of Stuff.
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
The Aftermath: Congressional Briefing about Strawbale Construction
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This is the second post about strawbale building today. The other is Building Science for Strawbale Buildings.
Regular readers may recall that post back in June about the straw-bale construction briefing organized by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) that was held in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington DC.
Building Science for Strawbale Buildings
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Over at buildingscience.com, the online home of Building Science Corporation (where you can benefit from the big-brained research and synthesis of Joe Lstiburek, John Straube, and others), there are tons of great articles like Can Highly Glazed Building Façades Be Green?,