Organizations
Ecological Design Institute: Van Der Ryn Architects - The Ecological Design Institute and Van der Ryn Architects create design solutions that link nature, culture, and technology.
Rocky Mountain Institute - A non-profit research and educational foundation; the institute creates and helps individuals find new techniques for resource efficiency.
Sustainable energy systems in architectural design: a blueprint for green building / Peter Gevorkian. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2006. Includes solar power systems and materials.
CAS Stacks TK1005 .G47 2006
Sustainability at the cutting edge: emerging technologies for low energy buildings / Peter F. Smith. Oxford; Boston: Architectural Press, 2007.
CAS Stacks NA2542.3 .S65 2007
Building inside nature's envelope: how new construction and land preservation can work together / Andy Wasowski, with Sally Wasowski; foreword by Darrel G. Morrison ; photography by Andy Wasowski. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
DAAP Stacks TH4812 .W36 2000
Certified Forest Products Council: Forest Certification Resource Center - Information about sustainable forestry, includes a directory of sustainably harvested lumber.
Earth construction handbook: the building material earth in modern architecture / Gernot Minke. Southampton [England]: WIT Press; Billerica, MA: Computational Mechanics, c2000.
ENGR Stacks TH1421 .M665 2000
The ecology of building materials / Bjorn Berge; translated from Norwegian by Filip Henley with Howard Liddell. Oxford; Boston: Architectural Press, c2000.
ENGR Stacks TA403.6 .B4713 2000
Forest World - Includes links to sustainable forest marketplace and woods of the world database.
Gaiam Real Goods solar living sourcebook. Hopland, CA: Gaiam Real Good; White River Junction, VT: Distributed by Chelsea Green Pub. Co., 2005.
ENGR Reference TJ810 .G345 2005
See Also: Real Goods solar living sourcebook and Real Goods solar living book.
Global Directory for Environmental Technology - Site by Eco Source International. A guide to environmental products & services, national and international, organizations, conferences and publications from experts.
Green building handbook: a guide to building products and their impact on the environment / Tom Woolley.[et al.]. London: E & FN Spon, 1997-2000.
DAAP Oversize TA403.6 .G74 1997
Green building materials: a guide to product selection and specification / Ross Spiegel and Dru Meadows. 2nd. ed. New York: Wiley, 2006. Includes green product selection, specification, construction processes, LEED requirements, specifications process, and construction waste management.
DAAP Reserves TH455 .S65 2006
DAAP Stacks TH455 .S65 2006
Green Building Materials Resource Guide (PDF) - City of San Francisco guide.
Green Building Resource Guide / John Hermannsson. Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 1997. Access a database of over 600 green building materials and products selected for their usefulness to the design and building professions, rather than merely their green material content.
CAS Reference TH455 .H47 1997
Green Seal - Directory of certified products.
Greenhomebuilding.com - Private site that focuses on the design and building of residential buildings.
Greening federal facilities: an energy, environmental, and economic resource guide for federal facilities managers / written by Sustainable Systems, Inc. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2001-2005.
Electronic Resource Available Online
Herman Miller Furniture - Environmental report and products.
Material ConneXion - Internet site for the newest building materials and processes.
The Sourcebook for sustainable design: a guide to environmentally responsible building materials and processes / Andrew St. John, editor. Boston, MA: Architects for Social Responsibility, c1992.
DAAP Stacks NA2542.35 .S68 1992
Sweets Catalog - Products for general building and renovation. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, annual.
The technology of ecological building: basic principles and measures, examples and ideas / Klaus Daniels. English translation by Elizabeth Schwaiger. Basel; Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, c1997.
DAAP Oversize NA2542.35 .D3613 1997
The whole house book: ecological building design and materials / Pat Borer and Cindy Harris. Machynlleth: Centre for Alternative Technology, 2005.
CAS Stacks TH4812 .H27 2005
Buildings of earth and straw: structural design for rammed earth and straw-bale architecture / Bruce King. Sausalito, CA: Ecological Design Press, 1996.
DAAP Stacks TH4818.A3 K56 1996
Hot dirt, cool straw / James Grayson Trulove; Nora Richter Greer; Dennis Wedlick. NY: HarperCollins, 2001.
DAAP Stacks TH4818.A3 T78 2001
Sustainable Building Sourcebook - Strawbale Construction - Austin, Texas, Green Builder Program. An online resource for green building. Includes construction techniques, case studies, and materials use.