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Mascord Efficient Living Green Building Made Easy! Alan Mascord Design Associates, a national leader in groundbreaking design, presents Efficient Living over 50 new and innovative house plans that meet and exceed Energy Star and national green building standards, including LEED® for Homes, National Green Building ...

The Northwest Green Home Primer The essential, real-world, green home manual. Everyone can make green home decisions on a budget with this inspiring, informationpacked guide. Whether you are building, remodeling, buying, or just curious, here are real-world strategies for getting the greenest results from your budget, with ...

The New Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options (Chelsea Green Guides for Homeowners) Shelter, like many other elements of human existence, comes at an extraordinary cost to our planet and its inhabitants. In the U.S. alone, construction of 1.2 million new homes a year results in a massive drain on Earth's natural resource base. Today, nearly 60 percent of all timber cut in the ...

A private owned holiday sustainable home located in Cantabria, Spain. Designed by Madrid-based Nolaster Architects, Casa OS. This lovely home has a high-end technique, low-impact accommodation and integrates green building design. The irony is that the original design scheme wasn’t intended to be a green building, but the architects employed many green features for [...]

Nice country house located in Calera Tango, Santiago, Chile is the house project for a marriage with no children that was done by Felipe Assadi Architects at a 4.5 Ha land area.Calera Tango is a commune located one hour from the capital. It is located in an intermediate situation between the Andes Mountains and the [...]