• An eco-designer eyes clean tech -- "William McDonough is an eco-innovator. ...The renowned architect and designer has made the notion of sustainability central to everything he builds."
• Guidelines and Principles for Sustainable Community Design -- "A study of sustainable design and planning strategies in North America from an urban design perspective" (1996 Master's thesis)
• Advanced Building Technologies -- "A building professional's guide to more than 90 environmentally-appropriate technologies and practices. Architects, engineers and buildings managers can improve the energy and resource efficiency of commercial, industrial and multi-unit residential buildings through the use of the technologies and practices described in this web site."
• NAHB Research Center -- Green Guidelines
• IceStone® -- "durable surface material is made from recycled glass and concrete."
• Structural Insulated Panels -- "SIPs are high-performance building panels for floors, walls, and roofs in residential and commercial buildings. Each panel is typically made using expanded polystyrene or rigid foam insulation sandwiched between structural skins of oriented strand board. The result is a building system that is strong, energy efficient, and cost effective."
• National Association of Home Builders Research Association -- "America's Housing Technology and Information Resource"
• ToolBase Services -- Zero Energy Homes..."A ZEH combines state-of-the-art, energy-efficient construction techniques and equipment with renewable energy systems to return as much energy as it takes on an annual basis. Specifically, when renewable resources cannot provide all the home's power, e.g., at night or on a cloudy day, the homeowner purchases energy from the utility. When renewable resources produce more than the house is using, e.g., during sunny days when no one is home, power is sent back into the utility grid. Some utilities operate the home's electric meter in reverse, essentially providing the homeowners full retail value for their energy."
• Design-a-Closet -- CAD Software from Better Homes and Gardens for designing a closet
• Visual Thinking School -- "a course designed to help you learn how to think and communicate better using the visual part of your brain"
• soda play -- "sodaconstructor: the online toy where you can build and play with things made out of masses, springs and muscles" (see also soda race).
• Herman Miller -- "In 1993, Herman Miller helped fund the start-up of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). This non-profit organization is dedicated to understanding and promoting sound environmental building practices."
• Ikea -- "affordable solutions for better living"

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