Inspiration for green homes can be found everywhere. Where, you ask? Well for starters, we at GreenHomeImprovement.com found it with the World Green Building Council, during World Green Building Week in September. Along with hosting green building conferences and round-tables on 6 continents, GBCs all over came together in the report Tackling Local Climate Change: Meeting Local Priorities. This informative and hope-inspiring report gives us a picture of green building efforts from Brazil to Japan, and shows how we homeowners in North America are part of a massive world-wide push for greener living. (more…)
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Green Homes Everywhere You Look! (new inspiration from around the world for going green)
Friday, October 8th, 2010World Green Building Week is coming up!
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010As we here at GreenHomeImprovement.com attempt to “think globally, act locally”, we want to consider world events going on in support of green building. In this way, we remind ourselves that a green home should always be built to make the best use of its specific environment, but that indeed, inspiration for a green home can come from anywhere in the world!
This month, from September 20-26, the World Green Building Council (umbrella organization for the US Green Building Council and many councils worldwide) is celebrating World Green Building Week (more…)
More innovation in renewable energy: Using the tides to power homes
Monday, August 23rd, 2010We were excited to read that the world’s largest tidal turbine ever built was unveiled in Scotland last week. This twin rotor turbine (Atlantis Resources Corporation) will be installed at the bottom of the North Sea at Orkney, Scotland, where experts predict that the strong tides and powerful blades will produce enough energy to power 1,000 homes! (more…)