sustainable housing

"[The Ambiente Housing owners Simon and Malcolm (Simon's father)] invented the composite material process and product that makes up Ambiente Housing’s homes, which are 85-percent recycled glass. No wood, drywall or

metal is used in the construction of [these] homes. 'We take old beer bottles and other recycled glass, grind them up and create a composite material that is formed into panels, which create the walls, foundation and roof,' Simon Parrish said. 'They look just like normal walls, but they are six times stronger than steel.'"

Would you live in a house made of empty beer cans, old tires and discarded soda bottles? Garbage like this is what renegade architect Michael Reynolds transforms into "earthships" -- eco-friendly homes with surprisingly pleasing aesthetics and tiny (or nonexistent) power bills.

LJUrban is a team of eco-urbanists aspiring to dream big, live small, and do good.

They're real people who make a living building places for real people to live.And they are passionate about empowering others to do something to make a difference.

There is a new housing community in Poway California, Solara, a 56-unit family project completed earlier this year in this San Diego County community.

Incredible example of sustainable housing.

A green building project in Austin Texas viewed in relation to the requirements of Austin's Green Building Program.  

MD Custom Homes and Renovations is committed to helping new home owners go green with green building practices and building materials. This article on their site details how they do that. Plus, another page on their site - Step-By-Step - shows images and provides descriptions of how to build a custom home. Many of the techniques they use are green.

Review of green building website

While intergovernmental negotiations hobble forward and political parties snipe, the rest of us can make an impact in practical, every day ways to live green and live smarter. Here are fifty things (more than fifty, I counted) to do without a ton of money or scientific expertise to green up your contribution to life on earth. It turns out that our own homes (well, everyone's own homes combined) account for more than 30% of resource use, pollution and carbon load.

Welcome back to the Urban Core International Blog for the third and final installment of our mini-series on container housing. Today we will explore a few more designers worthy of mention for their outstanding efforts in a fascinating industry.
We came across the name Jennifer Siegal last week and almost wrote a separate blog post just about her. She is among theJennifer Siegal most talented prefab home designers in the world...

These are Earthships, a form of entirely off-the-grid, fully-sustainable houses that are made from natural and recycled materials, and which can provide a family with a steady, comfortable interior temperature regardless of how hot or cold it is outside.