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Green Building: Not Just for Freaks?

Posted by Philip Higgs on December 4, 2007 - 8:45am.

Green building is gaining acceptance, but right now there are growing pains to grapple with if you're a do-it-yourselfer.

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Straw Bale Building 102: Getting Plastered

Posted by Philip Higgs on November 27, 2007 - 8:00am.

What do you do after your straw bale walls go up? Get plastered! (Oh ho ho!)


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Straw Bale Building: I'm A Believer

Posted by Philip Higgs on November 20, 2007 - 7:30am.

When I wanted sunshine, I got rain: But now that I'm a straw-bale evangelist, whats a little moisture to me?

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Straw Bale Building 101

Posted by Philip Higgs on November 14, 2007 - 9:29am.

Hay is for horses; straw is for building test walls in a three-day straw-bale building course.


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The Green Room

November 12, 2007 - 9:57am
from Los Angeles Times

Hey, did you hear the one about Jay Leno and his eco-friendly Burbank garage?

JAY LENO likes anything that rolls and explodes and makes noise, and his Big Dog Garage offers proof. Its 17,000 square feet are packed with rolling, exploding and noisy things -- most of them four-wheeled, rare and expensive.


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Weekend with Nerdy

Posted by Philip Higgs on November 5, 2007 - 2:42pm.

Some people like dancing. Some people like parties. I like parties where I can talk green building while other people dance.

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Recycling the Whole Studio

Posted by Philip Higgs on October 23, 2007 - 9:30am.

Philip Higgs is reusing the materials from an old studio on his property to build a new one. (Take that, New York Times!)

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Tear the Roof Off the Sucka!

Posted by Philip Higgs on October 17, 2007 - 12:10am.

The deconstruction continues. Over the weekend we almost had the roof off – but then the rains came

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Tearing Down the Walls, For Real This Time

Posted by Philip Higgs on October 9, 2007 - 9:45am.

Make way for the new: The old, decrepit studio is now wall-less, soon to be roofless, so ruthless am I in its deconstruction.

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The Enemies of Green Building

Posted by Philip Higgs on October 2, 2007 - 7:29am.

Living in giant homes is not green—no matter how much reclaimed wood you nail up.

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