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...Portable Power The egg-shaped Solio portable charger opens up to reveal solar panels that will charge your iPod, cell phone, digital camera or other small devices. Available for $79.95 from solio.com...
...clients more likely to insist on a green house are people who care about nature and who want something more appealing to the eye than a tract house with a few solar panels slapped on top. That would describe the couple who commissioned Nathan Good, an architect based in Salem, Ore., to design their weekend home in Cannon Beach, a small town on that state's northern coast. The clients, who prefer not to be identified by name, have a long history as advocates for environmental awareness. After losing their weekend cabin in a fire, they began to envision...
...couple hired Good, who had worked on other environmentally sensitive houses. "But this project was by far the most aggressive in its use of green elements," he says. Two decades ago, a green house was one that had a couple of solar panels. Since then, the formula has become a lot more detailed. The preferred lumber always comes from sustainably harvested forests, meaning woodlands that have not been clear-cut. For some parts of the Cannon Beach house, including the interior heavy timber framing and flooring, the wood is actually from windfallen trees. The exterior shingle walls of the house...
...house that they completed last year has three bedrooms, 2½ baths and an open-plan kitchen-dining-living area with a cathedral ceiling. It also has a pair of stepped roofs aligned in parallel curves, each serving a different environmental purpose. The lower roof is covered in solar panels. The notoriously cloudy coast of Oregon might not seem like the ideal place to draw power from the sun, but because of a combination of serious insulation with sophisticated systems for generating heat and storing it in geothermal wells?basically warm holes in the ground?over the course of a year...
Broader sustainability extends to every corner of the corporation, from the floor tiles (which are made of 50% postconsumer waste) to the company's composting efforts to its four solar stores (and one all-sustainable store, which received the rigorous LEED?Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design?certification from the U.S. Green Building Council) to a Green Mission Team, which provides input on every new store...