American society must realign its values when it comes to house size. With builders over-building, buyers being taught to embrace excess, lenders focusing more on size than value, each link in the chain weakens the one that follows.
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So, you’re about to do some home remodeling, but you’re on the fence about making the upgrades eco-friendly. Today, I’m here to help you off the fence and send you on the path to sustainability with absolute confidence in your choice. How? With a little myth-busting because people make a lot of erroneous assumptions about what it takes and what it means to have an eco-home. And you’ll probably be surprised once you see how completely wrong they are.
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Building a home from the ground up is an exciting, but often overwhelming process. Add in the fact that you want it to be eco-friendly and you have a recipe for potential analysis paralysis. That is, you’re faced with so many decisions you start overthinking the available alternatives and possible outcomes to the point that you can’t make any choices at all. We’re here to prevent that.
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Did you know that building a 2,000 square foot home creates up to 8,000 pounds of waste? And, despite the fact that about 85 percent of it could be reused or recycled, most of it is ending up in landfills. It’s a staggering, shameful waste. Fortunately, reclaiming, reusing, and recycling is becoming more common in the construction and renovation industry.
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There’s a reason that a key component of green building is water efficiency and reuse. Nationwide water use statistics are nothing short of staggering. And some experts estimate that as much as 50 percent of water used for irrigation is wasted due to evaporation, wind, or runoff caused by inefficient irrigation methods and systems.
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You probably know that eco-friendly building involves many components, like energy efficiency and sustainable manufacturing. But where do you go from there? As long as you know these mistakes to avoid when you’re building or remodeling a green home, you’ll be golden.
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IceStone began in 2003 with a simple concept; transform waste glass into something beautiful. Co-founders Miranda Magagnani and Peter Strugatz set out to create a business that integrated sustainable, responsible practices from process to product, and to provide a high design solution that would address a real problem. To date, IceStone has diverted over 16 million pounds of glass from landfills.
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Blu homes are the architectural embodiment of premium prefab living. Built in half the time of conventional custom homes, Blu homes feature soaring ceilings, walls of glass ‘letting the outdoors in’, luxury quality finishes, and integrated high-performance technologies for convenient and comfortable living. Folding technology allows for more efficient building and shipping, preserving resources.
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