In 1988, Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino bought a run-down house in the Millstone borough of New Jersey. A house that was designed by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright. Turns out, that Wright had been thinking of the environment back then. The home, along with about 100 others, was designed in his Usonian style a style that utilized admirable green building principles, including smaller footprints, lower cost, passive solar and radiant heating. The couple, principals of architecture and design firm, Tarantino Studio, renovated it, which won an award from the New Jersey chapter of the A...
Next week I am off to Boston for GreenBuild, the US Green Building Council's premier event. Greenbuild International Conference and Expo was launched in 2002 as the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. This year attendee...
Next week I am off to Boston for GreenBuild, the US Green Building Council's premier event. Greenbuild International Conference and Expo was launched in 2002 as the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. This year attendee...
The demand for education in green building practices is outpacing the building industry's ability to provide it, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. A few of the highlights: Builders who aren't familiar with eco-friendly const...
