Stepstone Inc. has produced high strength, precast concrete products for over 30 years. Today’s hardscape designs demand paving options that are versatile, enduring and have minimal environmental impact. Stepstone, Inc. is pleased to expand the design community’s permeable paving options by offering our new Pervious Pedestrian Pavers. Combined with our
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CELOTEX® PREMIUM INSULATING SHEATHING, as manufactured by BLUE RIDGE™ FIBERBOARD (http://www.blueridgefiberboard.com/pages/green-building.php) is a key component of a superior exterior building envelope design. An R-value of 1.3 per ½” provides superior insulating qualities in comparison to standard O.S.B. and plywood sheathing, thus providing an excellent thermal break. The indoor air quality
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GreenFiber is the only national manufacturer of natural fiber insulation. With eight manufacturing facilities across the country, GreenFiber uses recycled materials from local sources, low-energy manufacturing, and short-haul transportation to offer an environmentally responsible choice for homeowners.
GreenFiber Natural Fiber Insulation consists of certified 85%
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Net zero energy means harvesting as much energy as you use on an annualized basis. It is our key objective because there a lot of prescriptive standards our there, but most are not performance based. Net zero energy gives us a verifiable target that tells us how the building
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Materials & Design
GreenPoint Rating, LEED and Energy Star and Living Building Challenge guidelines will ensure that sustainability is built in wherever possible.
Materials have embodied energy – the energy it took to manufacture, load, ship and assemble them on site. We will reuse and recycle as much as possible
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We want to save as much of the existing classic mid century post and beam existing structure as possible so we reconfigured the floorplan to save all the foundations and simply swap the kitchen and bathroom locations where there was already plumbing.
Existing First Floor
Reconfigured First Floor
How much space do we actually need? Is bigger really better?
We chose not to fully build out our lot or our second floor. Building a large second floor would destroy the character of the current home. Additional square footage on the second floor would not only mean
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3V Signs & Graphics is proud to support the Green Idea House! Their efforts to renovate a residence and strive toward a “0 carbon footprint” is a commendable endeavor. To contribute to their efforts we supplied their banner made of recyclable materials. As a result of our interaction with Robert
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12/16/2009 This weekend we bought our living Christmas tree. We weren’t sure quite what to expect; but we are very happy with our tree, the service and the message behind it.
Through our house project, we met Scott Martin who started The Living Christmas Company. His incredible vision for what could
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