This week I attended the Environmental Design Research Association Conference in beautiful Sacramento. EDRA is a professional organization for anyone who works to improve the physical environment for people. At the meeting architects, planners, interior designers and researchers discuss how to make the places we live, work, and play more comfortable and sustainable. Thursday [...]

Crunchy Chicken has declared June 1-7 Low Impact Week. You can head on over to her blog to hear about her progress or participate yourself. If you need more goals or inspiration check out No Impact Man. Let us know how it goes.
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I love this article from The New York Times Magazine about 200-year-old houses. An excerpt:
If by “green architecture” we mean buildings designed to exist in harmony with environmental conditions, to conserve fuel and regulate temperature by “natural” means, then it is easy to forget that this did not begin with the invention of [...]

Container residence (and photo) by LOT-EK

There’s an interesting discussion going on in the comments of this post at Inhabitat and at Archinect about repurposing shipping containers as housing construction materials. Some folks find the resulting homes ugly; others suspect they’re unsustainable. You can learn about other container projects at Brand Avenue. [...]