Green Monday 15
Green Buildings: Alternatives to Conventional Construction
May 24, 2010
Presented by the Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute with support from the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce and a generous grant from Progress Energy.
Panelists
Russ Martin, former Mayor for the City of Asheville.
Anthony Brenner, founder, Push Designs. Push intends to build the healthiest homes possible, and their designs rely on the principles of research. Currently Push is in the finishing stages of the very first home in North America built with Industrial Hemp and Pure Panel.
David Madera, co-founder of Hemp Technologies LLC in Asheville, NC, which builds and distributes Tracical ® Hemcrete ® from Limetechnology UK Ltd. With two Hemcrete houses complete in the USA, Hemp Technologies has five more houses slated for construction this year and two more proposed.
David Mosrie, a veteran of the sustainable building industry, works as a builder, designer, consultant, and broker. He is the published author of several articles, including one in the April 2010 edition of Environmental Design and Construction.
Clark Snell, Managing Director, The Nauhaus Institute (NHI), a not-for-profit research organization that develops, shares, and popularizes affordable carbon neutral building and living solutions. Clark is the author of two books on alternatives to conventional construction, The Good House Book and Building Green.
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Audio
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