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A company built a house to show off soy products and other environmentally friendly building techniques for the modern home and they have chosen to donate their model home to Habitat for Humanity.
The Soy House was built to showcase environmentally friendly, soy-based products used in home construction. It includes products such as spray foam insulation, [...]

Want to get the low-down on something that could be above your head? Well here’s what you’ve been looking for: an introduction to green roofs!
Roof types
There are two basic types of roof greening covers: intensive (roof gardens) and extensive. Intensive planted roofs have a greater depth of growing medium to support a wider range of [...]

Providing a safe place to lock up bicycles can increase the rental and property value of a home or apartment complex.
To a cyclist like myself this seems painfully obvious, but to people living in the world of the car I guess, well, they don’t understand and need to be told this be a real [...]

Today I’ll cut right to the chase: car free cities are thriving in Europe. Awesome.

A quarter of households in Britain – more in the larger cities, and a majority in some inner cities – live without a car. Imagine how quality of life would improve for cyclists and everyone else if traffic were removed from [...]

Good news everybody! Your old pants could be worth more than you thought!
Students at University of Memphis have been collecting used denim for insulation in housing for Habitat for Humanity. So hang on to your old clothes so you can make somebody else’s house a little warmer.
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“It’s a project called ‘Cotton: From Blue to [...]

When I started Things Are Good many years ago I also wrote a short paper on creating a company based on selling shingles for roofs that have solar panels in them. I think DOW read my paper ;) because next year they’ll be selling solar shingles.
$20 million invested in the company from the American government [...]