Four Products at GLOBE 2010 Innovating Ways to Build Greener

As an owner/builder, I’m always on the lookout for new products that make a difference in how we build or use materials. Walking the tradeshow floor at Globe 2010, I found four products that caught my eye as we look toward the future of the built environment. [...]

The Green Green Owner/Builder: The sustainable marriage test.

When the road to building a “green” house is paved with a little mud.
by Jen Pennington

The sustainable marriage test.

Okay so my husband and I know enough about construction projects to make ourselves very dangerous. Though we’ve never actually built a house before, Bob is extremely mechanically inclined and I’ve done my fair share of art installations, and light construction on other people’s homes. We’ve both read a bunch of owner/builder books, articles, and said to ourselves, “pishaw…we can do this.” Continue reading The Green Green Owner/Builder: The sustainable marriage test.

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