Sustainable Architecture Resources

Linking you to 19 of the best Sustainable Architecture resources we've found.

• Topics: green materials
• Resources: publications: The Architectural Resource Guide, which includes extensive regional and national contact information for manufacturers and distributors of sustainable construction materials; and New Village Journal, a semiannual journal documenting progressive leadership in planning, architecture, and community revitalization. Also: library, research service, green materials display and database available to the public at 2000 Center Street, Suite 120, in Berkeley.

Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
1200 18th St NW, #900
Washington, DC 20036
202/530-2202; fax: 202/887-0497 e-mail

• Topics: green materials; green design
• Resources: publications, databases, links, listservs, and software (Green Building Advisor)

Educating Architects for a Sustainable Environment
e-mail

• Topics: architecture education
• Resources: recommendations, implementation strategies, model curricula, and links

Energy Design Resources
e-mail

• Topics: energy analysis, energy efficiency, lighting
• Resources: publications (newsletter), free software, workshops

Environmental Building News
122 Birge St., Suite 30
Brattleboro, VT 05301
802/257-7300; fax: 802/257-7304 e-mail

• Topics: green design; green materials
• Resources: archive of back issues of the newsletter, listserv, and event calendar. Includes an excellent "Bibliography of Green Building Resources."
  

Environmental Support Solutions
210 North Center Street, Suite 101
Mesa, AZ 85201
800-289-6116 or 602/694-5043; fax: 602-834-4319 e-mail

• Topics:indoor air quality, refrigerant compliance management software, training and consulting
• Resources: Information on workshops, products and services, and links.

Good Cents Energy Services
241 Ralph McGill
Bin 10196
Atlanta, GA 30308
800/653-3445. e-mail

• Topics: energy efficiency; green design; green materials
• Resources: workshops, software, publications; hotline

Harris Reports
1583 Pacheco St. #125
Santa Fe, NM 87505
888/844-0337 e-mail

• Topics: green materials
• Resources: computer disks containing databases of building resources from "material waste exchanges" and from manufacturers that specialize in used construction materials
  Group licensing of this directory will be available on the Web sometime during Summer 1999. After that, the computer disks will no longer be distributed.

Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
120 Wall Street, Floor 17
New York, NY 10005-4001
212/248-5000 ext. 117; fax: 212/248-5017 e-mail

• Topics: lighting
• Resources: publications and software

Iris Communications, Inc.
P.O. Box 5920
Eugene, OR 97405
541/767-0355; fax: 541/767-0357 e-mail

• Topics: green design; green materials; graywater heat recovery and recycling
• Resources: weekly Green Building News newsletter, videos, software, publications, database of green green materials

Jade Mountain
P.O. Box 4616
Boulder, CO 80306
800/442-1972; fax 303/449-8266
technical support: 303/449-6601 e-mail

• Topics: solar, micro-hydro, wind generators, composting toilets & greywater systems, lighting; appliances
• Resources: technical assistance; design and sizing of renewable utility systems; newsletter; catalog: access to 6,000+ renewable energy products

North Carolina Solar Center
Box 7401
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7401
919/515-3480; fax: 919/515-5778
toll-free in NC: 800/33-NCSUN e-mail

• Topics: solar; daylighting
• Resources: Toll-free hotline and technical assistance to NC residents, free publications, curriculum materials for teachers, training workshops, tours of the demonstration Solar House, online database of financial and regulatory incentives for renewable energy, and a reference library

Passive Solar Industries Council
1331 H Street NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005
202/628-7400; fax 202/393-5043 e-mail

• Topics: daylighting, solar heating, low-energy cooling, energy efficiency, appropriate technology
• Resources: weather data for U.S. cities; case studies and other publications; videos; free downloadable newsletter; workshops; software

Rocky Mountain Institute
1739 Snowmass Creek Road
Snowmass, CO 81654-9199
970/927-3851; fax: 970/927-4178 e-mail

• Topics: solar; energy efficiency; green design; appliances
• Resources: publications

Sinan Company
P.O. Box 857
Davis , CA 95616-0857
530/753-3104 e-mail

• Topics: natural insulation
• Resources: product catalog

Solar Energy Industries Association
122 C Street, NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20001-2109
202/383-2600 e-mail

• Topics: solar
• Resources: publications: manual and fact sheets; slides on solar thermal, photovoltaics, hydropower, wind, and passive solar technologies. (Also sells materials published by other solar organizations and the U.S. government.)

Solar Energy Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1303 Engineering Research Building
1500 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1687
608/263-1586 e-mail

• Topics: solar; energy efficiency
• Resources: publications, links, computer programs

U.S. Department of Energy/Office of Building Technology
e-mail

• Topics: solar; energy efficiency
• Resources: technical assistance; publications (such as case studies and success stories); software; rules, standards, codes; links to online resources

Vital Signs Curriculum Materials Project
Professor Charles C. Benton
U-C Berkeley
Center for Environmental Design Research
390 Wurster Hall, #1839
Berkeley, CA 94720
510/642-0669 e-mail

• Topics: architecture education; energy efficiency
• Resources: free curricula: resource modules and case studies, incl. field evaluation of existing buildings

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