Keeping an “uninhabited” building under 200 square feet, means no permits are necessary. What it also means, is it frees me up to be experimental with materials and construction methods.
This greenhouse, is really a greenhouse, the kind for growing tomatoes and such. The windows are all salvage windows of various types. [...]

As green building radically changes the systems of the building in terms of heating, ventilation, and daylight, it really changes the overall form from the look that we’ve become accustomed to in large buildings during the last one hundred years.
The new San Fransisco Federal Building (watch the video to see it, it’s not [...]

The Bend Bulletin- April 6th 2009
Diverting water from the Deschutes into Tumalo Reservoir would help meet future demand and make it ‘hugely cheaper’ to pump groundwater, say the plan’s backers….
Honest to Pete Insanity!
It’s probably about time that we folks of the High Desert woke up and realized we can’t waste water like an average [...]

Indoor Air Quality, often referred to as IAQ, is a fundamental issue of green building. For many years we’ve realized that the variety of toxic chemicals from household goods concentrates in our buildings and leads to respiratory problems like asthma and allergies. Much of our professional response has been to [...]

The first meeting of the High Desert Green Building Council- LEED AP Study Group is this week!
The group is studying for the LEED New Construction 2.0 test. We plan a 6 week study group. The USGBC is requiring those that are registered to take the exam be taken by June 30th [...]