A countertop made from a composite of recycled, compressed paper costs about the same as one made of granite. In his small way, Michael Schaeffer hopes to change that. Schaeffer, a longtime California ...

RYE — Most people dream of going to work everyday to do something they love. Ethan Korpi and Peter Robie of Eco Sound live out their passion each day by helping people renovate and build homes that ...

NEW ORLEANS – Environmentally friendly building, long the province of nonprofits and crusading celebrities, is moving into the dollar-and-cents world of commercial building. In the past month, two New ...

Green Builder Media recently announced its 2015 Eco-Leaders report naming nine outstanding companies who are paving the way towards sustainability. This year's Eco-Leaders have developed business ...

In the last two installments of ourGreen Guide to Prefab series on Inhabitat we highlighted thehistory of prefab design and the evolution ofmobile homes into modular prefabricated homes. Within the ...

NORTH HAMPTON — When Peter Robie decided to build a new, energy-efficient house on his family's rolling North Hampton property, he didn't have to stray far for inspiration. Together with Ethan Korpi, ...

Home builders would have called it risky to put up eco-friendly homes 15 years ago. The costs to build that way were too high. Today, some of the area’s thriftiest home builders consider it risky not ...