Design Today

Even small changes can help to restore balance and peace. Soon you may feel the positive Qi energy flowing around and improving your life. The feng shui living room needs to have a healthy stream of Qi, which is achievable. How can this be achieved? Start with the basics – look around your living room [...]

The U.S. Green Building Council’s definition of Green is “a high performing home that’s energy and water efficient, has good indoor air quality, uses environmentally sustainable materials and also uses the building or site in a sustainable manner.”
Now that we all understand the definition of green building, let’s take a closer look at a few [...]

What’s green, plastic, transparent, huge, possibly good for energy savings, and makes your house look like a spectacular amazing fun room designed by Pee Wee Herman? That’s right! It’s two new designs from Farsad Ghaffarian! One of them is a roof for your home made out of simple, rollable plastic. For energy savings. Then the [...]

Excerpts from a Residential Renewable Energy workshop offered through CU Boulder’s Sustainable Practices Certificate Program. This course was taught by green building expert and author Dan Chiras. For more information about this and other Sustainable Practices courses visit www.cugreenbuilding.com

With the political environment today, with an emphasis on, everything went not so green as possible, the use of material micro-design of sustainable buildings is an idea whose time. The use of photoluminescent exit signs and other indicators illuminated emergency exit is an easy decision, given all the benefits they can afford. Let’s take a [...]

At the other end of the design spectrum from the energy sucking gizmology that now pervades our lives; simple tech is quietly bringing back simplicity and sustainability as a worthwhile goal for industrial design. Here’s a good example; a low tech kitchen appliance that would go well beyond a simple energy star rating for efficiency.

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Wind power is one of the fastest growing forms of alternative energy in the world. More and more, wind power mills are seen in the countryside, in large wind farms and for the most part, away from city life. But a new form of wind power is now designed to work in an urban environment. [...]

One of the new variants for lead in recent years, not only in building design in Chester, but around the world, the concept of “Äúgreen, UA buildings. Only a few decades ago, if somebody one told you that you have a green building, they assumed you were using an army of painters to produce an [...]