L.A. Green Building
Providing healthy, Energy & Resource efficient building improvements in Southern California We also take great pride in our customer's satisfaction.
LA Green Building offers custom solutions to make your home or building healthier, more comfortable and durable. We are truly passionate about sustainability and its benefits to the community and environment. Let's make the world a better place together!
A Portuguese Glass House Uses Surrounding Foliage as a Privacy Screen
Love this glass house.
dwell.com A transparent hillside abode outside Porto swerves around existing trees and takes advantage of the lush canopy for privacy.
Love this. Even the golf cart has a module on top.
Passive House Explained in 90 Seconds
It is that simple. Let's start building smarter.
vimeo.com Ever wondered if your heating or air conditioning in your house is really necessary? Passive House (Passivhaus) is a design approach to buildings that reduce the…
Deck with a view: done.
29 Secret Gardens and Green Spaces Hidden Around LA
We were going to share this a few days ago and then we thought: "If we do that, those gardens won't be a secret anymore". But now we realize the cat was already out of the LA Curbed bag... So here you go.
la.curbed.com The word on Los Angeles is that's it's all asphalt and fenced-off yards, but joke's on the haters, 'cause we've got Griffith and the Getty and, even better, a network of little under-the-radar...
Per California building code, house numbers must be plainly visible and at least 4 inches tall. It does not say they can't be 4 feet tall.
Norway Will Spend Almost $1 Billion on New Bike Highways
When will we be able to bike our way around LA, where it is always sunny?
citylab.com They're part of a massive national transit plan to slash emissions by half.
Here are all the after pictures from a remodeling project we worked on in Venice.
Natural Swimming Pools: 9 Myths Busted: Myth #1: They’re Expensive
Natural Swimming Pools are beautiful and have lots of advantages over chlorinated pools... read on to find out more... And when you are ready to build one, contact LA Green Building.
Build local. Think global.
houselogic.com Natural swimming pools have a lot of advantages over traditional pools. Learn about the beauty and advantages of natural swimming pools at HouseLogic.
Room of the Day: A Salvaged Bathroom Full of Fresh Ideas
Looking for ideas. Check out this bathroom remodeled with salvaged materials.
houzz.com Entwined pipes as faucets, old doorknobs as towel hooks and swaths of concrete bring function and attitude to a master bath
Hashem Al-Ghaili
Southern California coastal areas could use this amazing technology.
Harvesting fresh water from fog is now 500% more efficient.
Rammed earth in Tibet is a community affair. The workers beat the rhythm with wooden rammers while singing and dancing to make a happy house.
Tale of Tibetans #27
The building song lyrics goes like this:
"Joys and happiness in the upper part. In the happy upper part we build a golden gate, adda gate to welcomes the great Lama( Buddhist) with ocean of knowledge, thus shall the house fills with joy and happiness.
Joys and happiness in the middle part, in the middle part we build a silver gate, a silver gate welcomes great leaders with power of kindness, thus shall the house fills with joys and happiness.
Joys and happiness in the lower part, in the happy lower part we build a conch gate. The conch gate welcomes brotherhood and sisterhood with st strength of solidarity, thus shall the house fills with joys and happiness. "
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Green America: Living Green: Is a Green Roof Right for You?
Green roofs offer benefits for you and for the planet. What's not to like?
greenamerica.org Green American magazine includes articles on green living, purchasing, and investing. Live better, save more, invest wisely, make a difference. Get the answers to your living green questions - about recycling, organics, Fair Trade, avoiding sweatshops, green investing, climate protection, nontoxic p…
A tiny guest house we built a couple of years ago. 312sf of awesomeness.
LA is so great for all its different architectural styles. We are working on a gorgeous mid-century house this week.
Kitchens Down Under: 20 Design Ideas to Inspire You
Thinking on remodeling your kitchen. The first step to designing your dream kitchen is to figure out what you like. Here are a few ideas.
houzz.com These popular Australian kitchens have exciting ideas to borrow no matter where you live
Help spread the permaculture word... | Permaculture Magazine
Brad Lancaster explains how using rainwater, his neighborhood went from a desert-like street to a living orchard.
In urban areas of concrete and tarmac, rain not only causes flooding but is often a wasted resource, running off into drains.Here Brad Lancaster shows how he and his neighbours harvested rainwater to ...
Natural Swimming Pools Designed With Nature - Landscape Architects Network
Natural Swimming Pools are amazing. They are beautiful, and the absence of chlorine means no dry skin or red eyes. Contact LA Green Building to get your own.
landarchs.com Claudia Schwarzer from Bio Piscinas gives us a detailed account of her own experience of designing and creating natural swimming pools.
Rammed Earth: Sustainable Design's Eco-Chic Flower Child
Rammed Earth is the perfect sustainable choice for construction in Southern California's hot and dry climate. It is strong and sturdy, quiet and confortable. It's warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
It's made out of raw earth and will last for centuries... Hmmm... Like
architizer.com Like a bushel of raw, unprocessed vegetables at your neighborhood farmer's market, rammed earth is to sustainable-minded architects what organic kale and koh...
Lumos Solar
This house adds an amazing solar canopy to give it a more modern look
L.A. Green Building
Read the full Lumos Spotlight: http://www.lumossolar.com/news/spotlights/2016/2/10/masterful-upgrade-of-a-backyard-canopy-with-lsx
Modules: (20) LSX Solar Module - clear backsheet
Racking: LSX Rail 1.1
Solar powered air conditioning
How about some Solar Air Conditioning? Anyone interested?
CSIRO has invented a new three in one solar air conditioning system that provides hot water, cooling and heating. It works by using heat from the sun and emp...
Earthly powers: why rammed earth is this year’s hottest new interior
Rammed Earth: London's hottest design trend.
standard.co.uk Move over marble, push off paint and polished plaster: this year’s hottest new interior trend is rammed earth. London’s smartest stores, restaurants, offices and homes are shoring themselves up with soil that’s been dried, dyed, moulded and compacted — literally rammed — to form walls, benches, ceil…
7 Inspiring Water-Wise Landscapes
Since we live in a desert in Southern California, considering drought tolerant landscaping is essentially... smart. Contact L.A. Green Building, we can help you.
dwell.com These drought-tolerant yards point the way forward for sustainable horticulture.
Self-Filling Water Bottle Converts Humid Air into Drinkable H2O
Absolutely brilliant. Water out of thin air.
livescience.com When water is scarce, why not pull it out of thin air? An industrial designer in Austria is hoping to do just that (well, sort of).
Gray Water Gets Stylish
westphoria.sunset.com Most Western gardeners these days strive for sustainability, incorporating eco-friendly elements like low-water plantings, permeable paving, composting systems, and furniture made from recycled lum...
LSX inspires a "cohesive ensemble" of solar
Featured on the Lumos Solar website back in March 2015.
lumossolar.com Designed and installed by LA Green Building to integrate LSX frameless solar panels "into an entire property and make it a cohesive ensemble." The design divided the array into 3 synergistic parts: * (3) modules on the front porch * (16) modules over the back patio * (6) modules as the awning aroun…
Natural Homes
Ever heard of a reciprocal roof? It is a self-supporting spiral of timbers where each timber rests on the next and needs no central support.
Tony Wrench has built cobwood roundhouses all over Europe and has lived in his own in Wales since 1997. This beauty was built in 2014 in France [VIDEO].
LivingHomes' zero-energy Joshua Tree prefab house is now on sale
"Zero energy buildings combine energy efficiency and renewable energy generation..."
inhabitat.com LivingHomes has unveiled the new version of the C6 prefab house located on a 20-acre site north of Joshua Tree National Park in southern California.
Natural Pools or Swimming Ponds
How would you like to swim in a natural swimming pool?
Chemical free tempts you, contact [email protected]
inspirationgreen.com Natural Pools or Natural Swimming Ponds
14 Power Facebook Tips to Build Your Brand and Business
entrepreneur.com It's time to start using your personal Facebook to build your brand, business and awareness.
A fully transparent solar cell that could make every window and screen a power source
offgridquest.com Little does he know, this technology has already been around for a few years, and the first factory will soon be under way.... Like EPowerGlass and new updates will be posted there. Researchers at Michigan State University have created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any win…
Powerwall | Tesla Motors
The solar revolution is here. This is a big game changer.
teslamotors.com Powerwall is a home battery that charges using electricity generated from solar panels, or when utility rates are low, and powers your home in the evening. It also fortifies your home against power outages by providing a backup electricity supply. Automated, compact and simple to install, Powerwall…
Solar patio designed and built by LA Green Building.
It has multiple benefits. Besides being visually pleasing, it provides much needed shade, and covers the electricity needs for the house.
The best place to install photovoltaic modules is not the roof. Call us to find out about solar patios, solar awnings, or solar carports alternatives.
Our latest project: an awesome little guest house featuring two rammed earth walls