September 2010

How would you like to save more than $100 a month on your electric bill? The Home Builders Association of Greater Little Rock is showing people how to do it.

The architect from Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood gives the political party its first candidate for countywide office after struggling for years to gain ballot access.

Palm Beach State College will present its third annual Green Expo from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Education and Training Center building on the Lake Worth campus, 4200 Congress Ave., Lake Worth.

Skilled and unskilled volunteers from the Building Goodness Foundation, a nonprofit that provides construction know-how to community projects, began work on the triangular play space on Saturday morning.

The starting point for anyone wanting to make a home greener is to focus on sealing the building envelope, which includes everything comprising the shell of the house — windows, doors, floors, walls and ceiling.

After three years, Calvary Ministries on Old Moon Road is adding a second phase to its three-year-old Green House at Calvary, a residence for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s. The existing building has 10 private bedrooms; phase two will mirror it and should be finished in February.

PAUL SMITHS – A new Paul Smith’s College building dedicated to the environment has won a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification, acknowledging its sustainable and environmentally friendly design.

Starting Monday, six North Trenholm Road area congregations will begin building the first “green” Habitat for Humanity house in the Midlands in a lead-up to the Sept. 25 Forest Acres Green Festival, an event that leaders of the faith communities hope will spur interest in environmentally friendly building practices and sustainable living.

The Green Building Summit Sept. 29-30, presented by the Oklahoma State Home Builders Association and the Association of Energy Engineers, will showcase benefits, strategies and resources available for sustainable building in Oklahoma,

Parade of Homes is going on and one of the homes featured is a green home. Built by Doug Martens Construction, the green home features different appliances that makes the house energy efficient.