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Plastics may be convenient and inexpensive, but they come with many hidden costs. Should we collect and recycle them, or rethink the whole experiment?
By popular demand, here's the Green Building Pyramid we developed last year to clarify the meaning of building sustainably.
Study: The depth to which nails are driven impacts how durable the structure will be over time.
Simple “caps” for attic stairways offer an affordable way to reduce air infiltration and protect indoor air quality.
In response to demand for tighter more foolproof insulating jobs, some big insulation companies have cleverly merged old and new products and techniques under one roof.
Air conditioning upgrades are not always an easy sell, but if you factor in rising energy costs, resistance fades away.