Home and Building Articles
Exploring new ways to build and heat homes that are realistic in a growing world population. Green building, eco villages and new technologies need to be implemented to support our resources and natural world for the future.
What is Hot-in-Place Asphalt Recycling Technology?
Hot-in-place asphalt recycling technology is not a new method to rebuilt roads. In fact, it has been around for more than six decades, yet despite its many benefits, it is…
Could Plastic Roads Help Our Garbage Problem?
The idea isn’t exactly brand new as scientists have experimented for several decades to find a way to use waste plastics in the construction of roads, but it’s one that…
3D Printer May Be Key to Helping Solve the World’s Housing Shortage
3D Printer May Be Key to Helping Solve the World’s Housing Shortage
Repurpose Old Wood to Benefit the Environment.
Reduce, reuse and recycle has become the mantra of the green movement. Many people in the craft and construction industry are taking that one step further by adding a fourth…
Rocket Stoves and How They Can Help Our Forests
The largest portion of energy requirements for an average household comes from cooking, heating water and heating the interior of a home. Rocket stoves can cover all these needs while…
Hay Bale Housing
As the world grows more populous and the gap between the highest and lowest socioeconomic levels of society grow wider, one of the great challenges to human rights activists and…
Rain Catchment Systems for the Home
Many sociologists and environmentalists predict that in the coming decades, the natural resource over which countries go to war will not be oil but water.
Eco-Construction for Greener Homes
A wise homebuilder will want to build a home that addresses the need for sustainable living. There are a number of ways for a homeowner to go about this important…