The C Street Co-op packs a punch: Affordable Housing at 60% AMI? Check. Affordable homeownership? Check. Permanently affordable homeownership? Check. Net Zero Energy? Neighborhood walkability? And all this with about…
This is a story about a family’s determination to effect a cleaner future by building a certified passive house – a giant collection of the very big and very small…
My Green Roof 16 years later and I am still hanging in there with it I was on a team that proposed a green roof at the Department of…
Concrete is the worlds second most used material behind water and this material alone accounts for almost 8% of the entire world's GHG emissions. This is even before considering the…
Above all else, this is the story of how to do what you can, where you can, when you can. Being a good environmental neighbor to our human and non-human…
This home is a triumph in several respects. It represents the first time that a straw bale project has been permitted in the Portland area under the prescriptive load bearing…
Cities continue to wrestle with solutions to the ballooning cost of housing. Over the past couple of years, policies have been enacted, and in some respects the building code community…
When a Bainbridge Island client approached her about working on the home they were building to reflect their lifelong passion for art and environmental sustainability, Hoda Sheikh, founder and owner…
Have you ever taken a plunge into the unknown with little more than determination to see you through? That’s what Mark did when, in the middle of a pandemic, he…
We have dual climate and affordable housing emergencies bearing down on us as a community and a world. In order to be truly sustainable, our communities must make note of…