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- Sustainable Living Resources (EarthEasy.com)
"With every activity of our daily lives, we connect with the interdependent web of life on Earth. The health of our environment is a reflection of the choices we make." 06-07
- The Small House Society (ResourcesforLife.com)
"We are a cooperatively managed organization dedicated to the promotion of smaller housing alternatives which can be more affordable and ecological." 06-07
Papers
- Editorial: Sustainable Architecture (Wikipedia.org)
"Sustainable architecture is framed by the larger discussion of sustainability and the pressing economic and political issues of our world." 04-07
- Poured Earth Construction (MichaelFrerking.com)
The design includes a modern element, placing a layer of insulation 4 inches inside of the exterior of the walls. 04-07
- Shipping Containers for Homes (MSNBC News)
"Used to import almost everything we use and wear, shipping containers are now a new concept in affordable housing." Sometimes these are called cargo contrainers, 05-07
- Smaller Homes Coming Back (Christian Science Monitor)
"Even in this era of foreclosures and wallet- draining utility bills, plenty of suburban subdivisions still sprout 4,000-sq.-ft. McMansions. But between 2005 – when the average floor area in a new home hit a peak of 2,434 sq. ft. – and 2006, US architects reported less demand for increases in the square footage and volume of homes, says Scott Frank, a spokesman for the American Institute of Architects. He cites 'a reversal of the decades of expanding home sizes.' " 05-07
- Sustainable Architecture (GreenHomeBuilding.com)
"I have come up with a list of thirteen principles of sustainable architecture (listed as links on the left) that can guide you in your housing choices." 04-07
- Sustainable Architecture Resources (UC Berkeley Library)
Provides resources to support sustainable architecture. 04-07
Purchase Resources
- Cargo Containers (AllStateContainer.com)
Provides shipping or cargo containers. Awesome Library does not endorse these products but provides them as examples. 07-07
- Cargo Containers (CargoContainers.net)
Provides shipping or cargo containers. Awesome Library does not endorse these products but provides them as examples. 07-07
- Cargo Containers for Houses (FabPrefab.com)
"There is growing interest in the use of shipping containers as the basis for habitable structures. These "icons of globalization" are relatively inexpensive, structurally sound and in abundant supply. Although, in raw form, containers are dark windowless boxes (which might place them at odds with some of the tenets of modernist design...) they can be highly customizable modular elements of a larger structure." Awesome Library does not endorse these products but provides them as examples. 07-07
- Green Homes to Buy or Sell (SustainableABC.com)
"List your green, healthy or eco home for sale at Green Homes for Sale. GHFS is the only Internet venue to buy and sell homes that have been built or remodeled with ecology and health in mind. Until now green, eco and healthy homes have been almost impossible to find. Now folks with environmental leanings can find wonderful and safe places to live." 04-07
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