I had the distinct pleasure of meeting the lovely Anna Lee today at Humboldt County’s new Alternative Building Center on 4th Street in Eureka.
She and Hector have done a grand job of making available a broad spectrum of green building products. From Ice Stone counter tops (a product with which I’m familiar) and Ultratouch Cotton […]

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Sacramento — Illegal operators who showed up at a sting house in Jackson this week were swept up by the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) and arrested for contracting without a license. Members of the CSLB’s Statewide Investigative Fraud Team (SWIFT) posed as homeowners and invited suspected phony contractors to a duplex to […]

One of the inevitable consequences of our legal system is a reluctance to adopt technologies and building systems that are perceived as “new”. Most of the new technologies being deployed today are perceived as new not because they are, but because it has taken decades for them to begin to be accepted by builders. […]

If you like architecture and history, then there are some potential jobs that just make you drool. The possibilities represented by the recent gutting of Tippett Hall as reported on August 17, 2007 by the San Diego Union-Tribune is one of those things.
The story reports the sad fact that: […]