Playing catch up: Sustainable salmagundi

Take a moment to dig in to this delicious, nutritious green home news medley filled with CFL dissenters, photovoltaic thieves, and more.

Fri, Oct 23 2009 at 3:23 PM

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Green Architecture, Green Building, Green Design, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Michelle Kaufmann congratulates the winners of the Chain of Eco-Homes design competition in Greensburg, Kansas. Take a look at all of the frontrunners — including first place winner, the Meadowlark House, pictured below — and be inspired.

The San Francisco Chronicle explores a hot new (indoor) gardening trend: terrariums.

Dwell chitchats with Matt Grigsby, the co-founder of Ecolect, the world's largest database of sustainable materials. Ecolect is sponsoring the Materials Petting Zoo at the Better x Design conference in Providence, R.I.

TreeHugger is on the same page as Dwell with a slideshow highlighting sustainable materials: "Green Materials Guide: Your Guide to Materials for Green Home Improvement, Remodeling and Renovation."

The Los Angles Times profiles Frankfurt, Germany's Ulf Erdmann Zeigler, a rather extreme CLF dissenter who has hoarded over 3,000 incandescent light bulbs in his apartment ever since the EU banned their manufacture and import. He hopes that they'll last him a lifetime.

Re-Nest excuses itself to the restroom for a quick list of "DIY Fixes for 5 Common Bathroom Issues."

Design Milk digs 'Hangers,' a series of coatracks designed by Jade Barnes-Richardson that are constructed from old steel clothes hangers.

Jetson Green takes a peek at the recently completed green prefab "villa" from love-him-or-hate-him architect Daniel Libeskind.

The Wall Street Journal delves into the world of solar panel theft-protection devices. Apparently, photovoltaic theft is on the rise, not just in the US but across the world.

The Globe and Mail takes a tour of the neighborhood that I call home: Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Image: Steven Learner Studio

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