I've been spending some time on the Living Homes site recently, they have a great online tour of the first Living Home designed by Ray Kappe. (I've visited this house and it is amazing!) The tour goes through the house room by room with some entertaining commentary by company founder Steve Glenn. Here is a list of some of the more interesting green suppliers I want to look into further as options for Kydd House.
Kitchen
Environmental Monitoring System (Lucid Design Group)
Paperstone Counter Top (Kliptech)
Cork Flooring (Natural Cork)
Composting system (looking for this one)
Lounge/Studies
Cedar ceiling (Eco Lumber Co-op) (Forest Stewardship Council)
LED ceiling lights (Permlight)
Radiant Heat Flooring (ACME Environmental)
Interior Designer - Heidi Toll
Polycarbonate Glazing (Polygal)
Low VOC paints (AFM Safecoat)
Low-E insulated glass doors (Pilkington, Fleetwood)
Ethanol-burning fireplace (Ecosmart)
High R Value Insulation - Recycled Denim (Bonded Logic Ultratouch)
Insulation - low VOC encapsulated fiberglass (Johns Manville)
High R Value Insulation - roof - blown in cellulose (Green Fiber)
Chadwick Task Chair (Knoll)
Bathrooms
Recycled glass tiles (Oceanside Glasstile)
Dual flush toilet (Sterling Plumbing)
Kohler low flow faucets (Kohler)
Simple door handles (Omnia)
Eco resin shower door (3-form)
Low flow shower heads (Bricor)
Local exhaust with timer (Panasonic Whisper Green)
Reccled porcelain bath tile (Coverings Etc)
Outside
Predictive Irrigation System (Wick)
Gray Water Storage & Recycling System (Bill Wilson)
Neutra House Numbers (DWR)
Rain Water Reclamation System (Bill Wilson)
Solar Water Heating (Apricus)
Photovoltaic System (Permacity - installer) (Schott Solar - panels)
Fencing (Trex)
Tigerwood (hard wood for outdoor decking) (Environmental Home Center)
Teak Outdoor Furniture (Henry Hall)
4 comments:
As far as I know, LA bldg safety doesn't have a code for grey water recycling. Therefore, it seems basically "illegal" to install a greywater system.
This strikes me as a shocking indictment of how clueless the city is regarding green development. In other cities (Denver for example) it is illegal to "hoard" city water.
Where are you getting your system? Are you building it? Is Bldg/safety approving it.
Let's don't give Kappe too much credit for being "green". That house is built with a ton of steel and the way you make steel is, rip down a mountain in Australia, ship it to China, burn the iron ore into steel, ship it to Long Beach.
Green?
Dual-Flash Toilet helps to reduce the demand from the public water supply by up to 67%. See the amount you can save just by using this kind of toilet
"the way you make steel is, rip down a mountain in Australia, ship it to China,"
Wrong, structural steel universally has extremely high recycled content, over 80% always AND shipping is extremely cost and fuel efficient. More economical in both ways to ship steel by ship from China than train or truck from the midwest.
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