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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Environmentally Sustainable Construction is a philosophy for designing and constructing homes and communities. By incorporating these principles, architects, designers, builders and tradesmen can create a living environment that is truly sustainable. Each chapter in the DVD is devoted to separate concepts that combine to contribute to the overall philosophy.
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Language
English
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"Every aspect of creating a beautiful, sensible, and healthy home is explored and demonstrated with elegance and clarity." —Martin Hammer, architect, co-director, Builders Without Borders
An EcoNest is not just a home—it is a breathtakingly beautiful structure that nurtures health and embraces ecology. This unique approach to construction combines light straw clay, timber framing, earthen floors, natural plasters, and other natural...
An EcoNest is not just a home—it is a breathtakingly beautiful structure that nurtures health and embraces ecology. This unique approach to construction combines light straw clay, timber framing, earthen floors, natural plasters, and other natural...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
DVD How-to Video on green and sustainable straw bale house design, adobe, cob, and other alternative and green building materials; the design of structures to create a sense of place, detailed construction techniques, passive heating and cooling, solar energy, rainwater cisterns, earth and mud plaster, cob, rubble trench foundations, thermal mass walls, passive heating and cooling, off-the-grid photovoltaic electrical generation, movies, inspiration,...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Can the designers of the Druk White Lotus School in remote Ladakh, India, help preserve the region's cultural identity for future generations? Could architect Thom Mayne's new San Francisco Federal Building be the prototype for tomorrow's workplace? Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, transformed one of the world's most chaotic cities into a model of sustainable and civic-minded urban planning. Third-generation develop Jonathan...
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The first season of this series examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The first program, The green apple, uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode, Green for all, features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni as he works to provide design solutions to regions suffering...
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