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‘Green Building / Design’ Links:
20 Most Unusual Houses In the World
People Laughed At His House Until They Went Inside
Video, 26 min, Top Discovery YouTube channel
3D Printed Home for $4000
Housing charity org. and construction tech company are building these
650 square feet and built in a day, video 3 min.
Aircrete Dome House
Why did I build an aircrete dome house?
Discover the beauty and sustainability of dome house
YouTube video, 26 min, OmDome channel, Santiago Sacatepéquez
Alternative Culture Directory
(Arizona)
Alternative building technology, eco design
Alternative Culture Directory
(Arizona)
Alternative building technology, eco design
Architect Bjarke Ingles
Danish architect produces innovative and & ambitious designs & projects
Architect Raimond de Hullu
Building green designed homes in the trees near cities
Dutch Architect envisions urban forests w/ houses that look like trees
Buckminster Fuller Institute
(Brooklyn, NY)
Building earth dome houses
Published by the Mind Unleashed
Building Green / Environmental Building News
(Brattleboro, VT)
Articles, green specs, case studies, references, calendar, bookstore
California Straw Building Association
(Angels Camp, CA & international)
Nonprofit to exchange experience, testing, research
ClickArchitect.com
Directory of architects, sustainable design
Clingstone House
Jamestown, Rhode Island
Architect Henry Wood designs a house on an island he bought for $3600
Cob Cottage Company
(Cottage Grove, OR)
All about cob building, photo gallery, books
Damanhur, Italy
Hall of Earth, Artistic Colony
A Laboratory for the Future of Humantical
Design Renaissance: Earth’s Future
(Santa Cruz, CA)
History,Technology & Art. Nexus of design for business and ecology.
Earthship Homes — Sustainable Housing
Are Earthship Homes the Future of Sustainable Housing?
Sustainable homes built in Taos, NM generating their own power, water
YouTube video, Abode channel, 45 min
EcoCity Network
(New Zealand & international)
Sustainable development around the world
Endeavor Sustainable Building and Design
Ontario, Canada
Sustainable building & design; innovative learning, building, living
Resources, workshops, newsletter, free 100 page green building book
Flying Concrete
(San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
Incredible photos, structural & sculptural forms
Foster & Partners design
Innovative architecture and integrated design practices, sustainable and environmentally-friendly
Frank Gehry designs
Award-winning architect who has been designing for over 50 years
Green Directory – Building Materials & Green Links
Santa Cruz, California
Green links for building materials & info by Marilyn Crenshaw, Architect
Green Guerillas
(local New York City, NY)
Turning vacant lots into vibrant community gardens
Green Home Building
(Mexico, Western states)
All types of design & technique, illustrated
Habitat 67
Housing experiment built for World’s Fair, 1967, by Architect Moshe Safdie
The goal was to combine the best of urban & suburban living, video, 30 min
Heatherwick Studios
The works and projects of Thomas Heatherwick spanning 4 continents
Combining craft, design, architecture and urban planning in one workspace
Hybrid Adobe / Pioneer Phillip Mirkin
(CO, New Zealand & international)
Natural building of hybrid adobes by builder & Pioneer Philip Mirkin
Currently works in Fiji, US, New Zealand using local resources
Iconbuild
Icon built the first permitted 3D building home in America
Island made from plastic bottles
Spiral Island is a floating island built in Mexico by British artist Richart Sowa
Kirsten Dirksen
Videographer; subjects include simple living, self-sufficiency, craftsmanship
Her videos can be found on YouTube and faircompanies.com
Tiny House Blog with Kirsten & other contributors
Ghost Town Pioneers: Restoring a home a ghost town in Italy
YouTube video, 29 min
Ghost Town buildings connected in a Maze, YouTube, 17 min
“Land was Barren. He Dug a 10-acre underground village & orchard“
— Baldassare Forestiere 1906 endeavor, YouTube, 46 min
He Quit All to Build Off-Grid Village, Mountain-long Earthship
Near the California/Oregon border
YouTube video, 45 min
They Built Dream Hobbit Home Themselves
YouTube video, 33 min
Young Architect’s Home Inspired by Nature’s Spirals
YouTube video, 36 min
Couple Builds Dream Natural Roundhouse with Hempcrete, Cob, Lime
This house is among California’s first permitted hemp homes
YouTube video, 38 min
Strawbale Home is a Bioclimatic Marvel
Strawbale Walls are fire-resistant, YouTube video, 22 min
Earthships: Self-Sustaining Homes for a Post-Apocalyptic Land?
A tour of the “Earthship survival pod” home in the Earthship community
YouTube video, 40 min
Lamboo
Develops and supplies lamboo (structurally engineered bamboo).
Website has product solutions, resources, and design ideas — lamboo.us
Living Big in a Tiny House w/ Bryce Langston
Explore the world of tiny houses and small space designs, 53 videos
Home-Made Eco-Friendly truck folds out into castle, video, 12 min
Young Woodworker Crafts Stunning Off-Grid Tiny House, video, 15 min
Living Cities National Community Development Initiative
(NY, NY)
Partnerships for good neighborhoods, great cities
Lloyd Kahn homestead
Northern California
Self-sufficient and self-reliant half-acre homestead
Megalith Home Among Boulders
Home created from boulders in Cascade Mountains, YouTube video, 19 min
MOME/Bridge Street Project
(San Luis Obispo, CA)
Modern sustainable mixed use living project
Monolithic Dome Institute
(Italy, TX)
Strong fireproof sculptured or dome structures
Mother Earth News
(Topeka, KS)
“The Original Guide to Living Wisely” Newletters, books
Natural Building and the Natural Living World
Articles, info, resources, photos, workshops on natural homes & living
naturalhomes.org – “Natural building and natural living journey starts here”
Natural Building Network
(Eugene, OR, international)
Extensive links on all topics of natural building
Natural Homes by Sun Ray Kelley
Buildings made out of natural materials by artist/builder Sun Ray Kelley
Nautilus natural Shell house
Beautiful shell house that looks like a snail
Designed by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain of Arquitectura Organica
Owen Dell & Associates
Sustainable Landscaping – Humor, silliness, good info, valuable links
Portland Sustainable Development
(Portland, OR)
Clean energy, economic development
Post Carbon Cities
(Portland, OR)
Preparing local governments for energy & climate uncertainty
Presidio Alliance
(San Francisco, CA)
Restored buildings w/ environmental organization
Ra Paulette Cave Carvings
New Mexico
Ralf Budwell Creations
(European locations)
Designer specializing in unique plaster techniques
Rebel Architecture – Santiago Cirugeda
Seville, Spain
Cirugeda has dedicated his career to reclaiming urban spaces for the public
Video (25 min) – “In times of crisis, people come together to find solutions”
Refugee Tents Collect Rainwater & Store Solar Energy
From Egyptian Streets.com, “Weaving A Home” design
Created by Abeer Seikaly, renowned architect, artist, designer, producer
Resource Furniture
Space saving furniture and storage solutions from Resource Furniture
Rockstar’s Magical Woodland Cabin
Remote Woodland Home in the forest in Olympia, Washington
Filled with organic design and natural elements, video, 9 min.
San Francisco Urban Alliance for Sustainability
(San Francisco, CA)
Network of green businesses & members creating sustainability models
Smart Growth Network
(Washington, DC)
The smart growth movement, restoring community & vitality to cities
Sprawl Busters, Home Town America Fights Back
(Greenfield, MA)
An international clearinghouse on big box anti-sprawl information
Steve’s Dome Home
Stickworks.net — Construction with Tree Saplings
Patrick Dougherty combines carpentry with his love of nature
Small to monumental creations with tree saplings illustrated (250 pieces)
Storybook Cottage by the Sea
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Tiny home built from natural materials using old-fashioned techniques
Stunning and practical dwelling with all creature comforts, video, 10 min
Strawbale Central
Renaissance in the way we build houses
Sustainable Niagara
(Ontario, Canada)
Full metasite, portals, articles, related links
Sustainable Sources Directory
(Austin TX)
Publications, green building & database, water, energy
Terracota house
Villa de Leyva, Colombia
Built by Colombian architect Octavio Mendoza
The City Repair Project
(Portland, OR)
The City Repair Project
Grassroots organization helping people reclaim urban spaces
Mark Lakeman You Tube videos
Mark Lakeman – Origins of Permaculture
Mark Lakeman – The Chronology of City Repair
Mark Lakeman – Bioneers, Importance of Community Activism
Communitecture
Designs beautiful, sustainable places to bring people together in a community
The Gibran Center — Domegaia
Innovative, low-cost, sustainable, ecological housing solutions
The Last Straw
(Lincoln, NE)
The International Journal of StrawBale
Tiny House for Us
Tiny Houses design and construction
Transforming a Rundown Apartment to a Penthouse
Lisbon, Portugal
João Gameiro created a dream apartment using traditional craftsmanship
Rundown garret becomes tiny penthouse perching over Lisbon, 19 min
Treehouses around the world
Photos and info on ingenious treehouses around the world
Truck into living space
How to turn a truck into a nice living space
Tsunami–proof houseboat
Designed & built by former art director Chris Robinson
Veteran’s Community Project
Kansas City, MO
This Non-Profit founded in 2016 set up a tiny homes village on their 5 acres
Serves as temporary housing for veterans
Veterans Community Project
A project gives temporary tiny homes to veterans
Video tour, 7 min, of the tiny home community and a home
West Coast Green Residential Building Conference
Whole Earth Catalog
Access to Tools, Ideas, and Practices
wholeearth.com
William McDonough & Braungart Design Chemistry
(Charlottesville, VA)
designing complexes for large corporations
Wisconsin Green Building Alliance
(Madison, WI)
Promotes development of ecologically sustainable materials
World Green Buidling Council
(international)
Promotes sustainable building practices on global scale, articles, links
WorldChanging
(Seattle, WA)
12,000 articles, Redesign of cities, Books, Articles; A cornucopia of solutions
www.worldchanging.com