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Growing Green Communities: Eco-villages & Co-housing(0)

November 16, 2009

by Laura Silver
One of the things I like best about the green-building movement is that it looks at more than carbon footprints, energy use, healthy and renewable construction materials, (all of which are both necessary and laudable). It also rethinks the basic tenets of why and how we build.
Green construction has taken the concept of [...]

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A Different Kind of Tree House

by Laura Silver

I’m mildly obsessed with trees — real trees, images of trees, and almost anything with a leaf motif. So it’s no wonder I keep going back to my November/December 2007 Natural Home magazine, with its article on Chrysalis Farm — a sustainable home designed by whole-tree architect, Roald Gunderson.

Gunderson’s designs use whole young [...]