| Advanced Building Technologies:
- Ways to make buildings more
energy/resource-efficient.
Comet Studios:
- An environmental architecture firm.
David
Vandervort Architects:
- A Seattle-based firm which incorporates sustainability
into each
of its designs.
Denver
AIA Committee on the Environment:
- A wonderful guide on how to design green.
Earth
and Sky Architecture:
-An architecture firm that designs sustainable
buildings.
Earthships:
- Use "trash" and packed earth to build a
house.
Eco-Architecture:
- A project for a class in the southwest. Students are to
design a
"green" home, by looking at ways
that local animals and plants
adapt to the environment.
Environ Design
Collaborative:
- Tips and strategies for "planning
green," also has a list of green
products, as well as project overviews
and resources.
Environmental
Building News:
- An online monthly newsletter with tips and
information on how to
"build green."
Environmental
Design and Sustainability:
- A website for a course from the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute.
Includes case studies, images, a
bibliography and web links.
Environmental/Sustainable
Links:
- An index of links to environmental sites.
Envirosense
Newsletter:
- News, links, and information on the latest
environmental products.
Green
Architecture:
- Links from About.com.
Green
Architecture and Sustainable Living Links:
- Links to websites that discuss sustainable
architecture.
Green
Design:
- A bibliography and link page from Berkeley.
Green Home:
- An organization based in Washington D.C. that collects
information
about building designing green houses.
HOK
Sustainable Design:
- What one design firm is doing in the area of
envrionmental architecture.
Indoor Air Quality:
- Hazards of poor air quality and how it can be
improved.
North Carolina
Solar Center:
- Information and resources for using solar power
in buildings.
Northwest
EcoBuilding Guild:
- Information on sustainable design in the Pacific
Northwest.
Oikos:
- A directory of environmentally friendly building
products, plus
news, and an online bookstore.
Our
Environment - Building a Sustainable Future:
- A newsletter from Hawaii.
Residential
Environmental Design:
- A website focused on how homes can be designed to
fit better in
the environment.
Solstice:
- Information on renewable energy & sustainable
living, plus news.
Straw-Bale
Construction:
- An interesting way to build a house in a dry
climate to be more energy
efficient, and environmentally
friendly.
Straw
Bale Construction - An Overview:
- More information on straw bale construction.
Sustainable
Architecture:
- Information from a university student.
Sustainable
Architecture and Building Design:
- An overview of sustainable development.
Sustainable
Architecture Building & Culture:
- A great deal of infromation from air & water
quality to building
materials to the principals of
sustainability.
Sustainable
Architecture - Eco Design and Landscaping:
- A site from Hawaii.
Sustainable
Buildings Industry Council:
- Lots of information.
Sustainable
Business Network:
- Organizations, news, educational resources and
more.
Sustainable
Development:
- A long list of web-links provided by the World Wide Web
Virtual
Library.
Sustainable
Housing:
- Has some great info. Go to "Exemplar
Projects" to see some real
examples of what people are doing to build
environmentally.
Sustainable
Sources:
- Articles, sustainable building info, and related
sites.
The Hannover Principles:
- Commonly accepted principals of sustainable
design.
The Natural
Step:
- An organization with thoughts about what people should
do to take
better care of the earth. |