According to Jeffrey Earl Warren, in his San Francisco Chronicle Op Ed piece just before Thanksgiving, the San Francisco Air Quality Management District announced pro forma public hearings before it takes what everyone is aware is the “Done Deal” act of banning wood fires in its district.
Nobody who heats their home with wood is particularly […]

“Sick house syndrome.” Also known as “sick building syndrome.” A growing crisis in indoor air quality. And until recently I, and many other contractors — even contractors whose business focus is remodeling — didn’t know it.
Like most green builders, I did know that there were indoor air quality problems in many new and remodeled buildings. […]

“I have had X contractors look at my project and none of them want to do it. Why?” I’ve heard some form of this several times in the last few months — sometimes as direct question, sometimes as an offhand comment — so it seems only appropriate that I address the issue here.
When a contractor […]

Deforestation and predatory logging practice being the major concern of many that it is, regular old sawn lumber is rarely considered a green product. But for everything there is an exception. And my summer project ended up being one of them.
Every stick of lumber used on two of the three projects completed was […]