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Elemental Green Submissions

Thank you for your interest in submitting an article, project, or product for Elemental Green! We’re on a mission to educate and inspire people to create their dream green home – whatever size, shape, or place it may be. There’s...

What Makes Windows and Doors Energy Efficient?

What makes it ENERGY STAR? ENERGY STAR qualified, windows, doors, and skylights: Are manufactured...

Flor Eco-Friendly Carpet Tiles

Through research, design and technology collaborations, they discovered that the fishing nets – made of nylon – could be recycled to create beautiful new carpet.

7 Green Technologies That Are Changing HVAC Sustainability

Companies in the U.S. and worldwide are involved in research to create more energy-efficient traditional systems as well as new types of systems that run off alternative energies, such as geothermal or solar. Here are 7 technologies leading the way.

9 Gorgeous Green Countertops for Eco-Friendly Homes

Whether you’re working on a green building or remodeling project, you want to choose materials...

Behind the Scenes Look at Building a Shipping Container Home

Tim Steele is the founder of Tim Steele Design LCC, working in three distinct but related disciplines: art, interiors, and structures. Collaborating with architects, he has created four custom houses made of recycled shipping containers and is developing a line of modular container structures that can be used in urban and rural environments.