green home // Posts tagged as "green home"
Greenbuild 2011 Video
Last fall, I posted about my presentation at Greenbuild 2011 titled “Reinventing Habitat for Humanity: How sustainability can be affordable for everyone.” Read my initial post by clicking here. When we gave the presentation we knew that our session was one of a few that had been selected to be filmed and offered on the ...
Size Does Matter in Sustainability
I just got done reading a short article on Inhabitat that described the new “home” (read mega-mansion) being built by Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen. Read the article here. This little piece of the American Dream is 22,000 square feet for the couple and their son and appears, from pictures, to more closely resemble a ...
Habitat for Humanity’s “Green Model” is Under Construction!
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As I posted in March (here), I am thrilled to be the architect for Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity’s new “Green Model”. This new home model strives to prove that sustainability and affordability are complementary, not conflicting concepts. Ground was broken for the home late last month and as of my site visit today, the foundations, ...
Habitat for Humanity House is in for Permit
Last summer, my colleague Jessica Farmer and I entered and won a competition to design a new “green” model for our local Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity chapter to build in our community. (Click here to read about the competition and click here to see our entry) Once the competition was complete, Jessica and I began ...
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