Horigan Urban Forest Products
8110 Monticello AvenueSkokie, Illinois 60076847.568.1340www.horiganufp.com Looking for salvaged wood but don’t know where to go? Horigan Urban Forest Products may be one of the best salvaged wood ...
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Bio Tray Module for Green Roofs
The new California Academy of Sciences is an incredibly innovative green building. The green roof was created by a leading landscape consulting firm, which developed a biodegradable module system int...
The Rainscreen Clip
West Coast Green 2008
Ever wondered how you install that super-cool modern siding you're seeing on all the hot new prefabs? You know, the siding that is simple horizontal planks with just a bit of space between each one? ...
Why It's Green: FSC-Certified Wood
"FSC-Certified." The phrase is thrown around quite a lot in the green building and green product worlds. A piece of furniture made from FSC-certified wood is greener than one made from traditionall...
Why It's Green: Cool Roofs
It's one of those things we remember learning at some point during grade school -- wear a black T-shirt out on the playground and it will get hotter than a white T-shirt. Same goes for your roof a...
Green Screens from Bamboo
Looking for a room divider? What's not to love about one made out of bamboo! Here are a few options to choose from....
TerraMai: Reclaimed Woods From Around the World
TerraMai is a great resource for reclaimed woods – they source a variety of places such as railway ties, warehouses, mills, barns, wine barrels, tanks any other previously used wood that may be salv...
EcoRock: Greener Drywall
Humble drywall is one of the key materials in modern construction: it's relatively lightweight, inexpensive, and requires less skill than plaster to install. It helps make wood buildings safer in fir...
Pallets as Building Material?
Every day I pass a local hardware store on my bike home and in the corner of their parking lot, next to the street, sits a pile of shipping pallets. The pile slowly dwindles throughout the week as peo...
Green Decking: Bear Board
From time to time, Re-nest will be looking at green deck materials. This post is the first in the series. Bear Board is decking made from recycled HDPE plastic. That's high-density polyethelene&mdas...
No Stone Unturned: Using Existing Resources
(Hello to Dany, one of the bloggers trying out for a spot on the Re-Nest editorial team. Comments are welcome!) Instead of shipping very heavy stone, or using faux stone, we chose to use stone from o...
Water Not Required: Green Roof Blocks
With the hot weather and everyone beating a path up to the roof, here's a really nice way to keep it cool, green and growing. We can all help create the green city of the future with these guys. ...
Awnings
Sometimes, we get so caught up with the high-tech solutions to green building that it's easy to overlook the simple solutions. Awnings are a simple way to keep summer sun and heat out of your house. ...
Renovo Wooden Bicycle
We were surprised by this wood bicycle displayed in the airport in Portland, Oregon. First, we thought of the cardboard bike Stephanie posted last week. Then, we realized this bicycle is a thing of ...
Tankless Water Heaters: Worth the Extra Work?
Hello to Trent, one of the bloggers trying out for a spot on the Re-Nest editorial team. Comments are welcome...My girlfriend and I recently purchased our first house, built in 1950 and not updated si...
Reflective Roofing
A crazed raccoon dug a hole in our aging roof last week. We had been waiting as long as possible before replacing the roof, but now we've got to take action. ...
Fly Ash
If you're planning to build a new house, or looking into concrete countertops, you should know about fly ash. It's a waste product from coal-fired power plants, and it can help make your concrete muc...
IKEA Numerär Butcherblock
We've been working on a project with butcherblock from IKEA and have a few insights on what makes them so affordable... and (perhaps) more green than other butcherblock....
The Many Uses of Kirei Board
We'd seen Kirei board (an eco-friendly wood substitute) on the pages of magazines - but this was the first time up close. It is complex and interesting to look at, extremely light, and can function pr...
PrairieFence
Quite some time ago, we got a question about green fencing material. We didn't have a lot to offer, but did come across some bamboo fencing. As we all know, there are some questions about how gree...
Green Idea: Local Wood
If you've decided that there might be something to the locavore thing, wouldn't it make sense to practice the same ideas when it comes to building products? North America is fairly rich in wood resou...
Some Smith & Fong Bamboo to be FSC Certified
Bamboo is one of those products about which it's easy to make assumptions. It's easy to assume bamboo is green. It's easy to assume bamboo is renewable. It's easy to assume that because it's natura...
Rammed Earth Bathroom Walls
We love this rammed earth construction by Terra Firma Rammed Earth Builders. It's uncommon enough to see on a home's exterior. But would you believe you can also use the material in bathrooms? Check...
Sculpture or Furniture?
This is one way around the problem of a throwaway culture we blogged about yesterday: take things other people think of as junk, then transform them into beautiful and valuable pieces of functional ar...
EcoUrban Homes
EcoUrban Homes is a St. Louis-based startup building factory-assembled, green homes. We were encouraged to see green features in a reasonably well-designed and affordable home, and one that was certi...
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