USEFUL GREEN LINKS

AECB
http://www.aecb.net
The Association of Environmentally Conscious Builders-UK

Big Green
http://www.biggreen.org/
The Big Green Discussion Group

EASCA.
http://www.easca.ie
The Irish association for ecological construction companies

BRE Building Research Establishment
http://www.bre.co.uk/
UKs leading research organisation on sustainable building and building generally.

Construct Ireland Magazine
Irelands premier sustainable construction periodical
http://www.constructireland.ie/

Breeam
http://products.bre.co.uk/breeam/default.html
BRE's assessment method.

Centre For Alternative Technology.
http://www.cat.org.uk
The legendary CAT in Wales, 25 years of inspiration and on the job learning in green building.

Chartered Institution Of Building Services Engineers.
UK CIBSE
http://www.cibse.org/
Useful source of many types of information on the technology of green (and other) buildings

City of Dublin Energy Management Agency.
http://www.codema.ie/
CODEMA provide invaluable information on energy efficiency and water saving appliances

Terre

http://terre.grenoble.archi.fr/accueil.php
Frances innovative earth building centre.

In Situ Rammed Earth Co
www.rammed-earth.info
A new UK company specialising in this most pleasing form of earth friendly building.

Ecological Design Collaborative
http://www.ecodesign.org

Sim van Der Ryn’s ecological design collaborative based in California. Sim Van Der Ryn is the founder of the discipline of ecological design.

Energy Research Group: University College Dublin
http://erg.ucd.ie/
00 353 1 269 2750

Cultivate Centre

http://www.cultivate.ie/
Irelands fantastic sustainability education centre in Dublin.

Environmental Building News.
http://www.buildinggreen.com/
Site of the US publication Environmental Building News.

Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects
http://www.feildenclegg.com
Feilden Clegg Bradley, prominent UK design architects for large scale energy efficient and ecologically designed buildings

Forestry Stewardship Council FSC
http://www.fsc.org/en/
Website of The Forestry Stewardship Council, the worlds leading network for sustainable forestry accreditation group

GAIA Group
http://www.gaiagroup.org/
The Gaia Group of ecological Architects across Europe

Green Builder Programme
Austin, Texas. USA
http://www.greenbuilder.com/general/BuildingSources.html The City of Austin Texas's innovative Green Builder Programme.

Greenmaps
http://www.greenmap.org
Home of the worlds green maps for cities

Green Roofs
http://www.greenroofs.com/
The homepage of Linda S. Velazquez with comprehensive studies of green and grass

International Dark Sky Association
http://www.darksky.org/
Web page containing the International Dark Sky Association's guidelines on reducing light pollution.

Living Machines
http://www.worrellwater.com/products_lm.html
Website of Living Machines Inc one of two companies who hold patents on the Living Machine water treatment systems of Dr John Todd.

John T Lyle Centre For Regenerative Studies
http://www.csupomona.edu/~crs/
The excellent demonstration and education centre in southern California.

Oberlin University
http://www.oberlin.edu/ajlc/ajlcHome.html
The remarkable Lewis Centre for Environmental Studies, Ohio.
With a new building designed by William MacDonough and Partners

Perma-culture
http://www.permaculture.co.uk/
The Magazine dedicated to the other way of being an ecological designer.

Real Goods
http://www.realgoods.com/
Real Good’s Solar living Centre and shop, a holistic passive solar landscape and retail building hewn from a disused rail yard in Northern California, designed by Sim Van der Ryn Architect.

Sustainble Energy Ireland
http://www.sei.ie
Comprehensive information on energy consumption, conservation and renewables across all sectors in Ireland. Grants too !

Rocky Mountain Institute. RMI
http://www.rmi.org/
Website of the Rocky Mountain Institute, A constant source of facts and data as well as inspiration by Hunter and Amory Lovins' group in the US.

Source Guide
http://energy.sourceguides.com/businesses/index.shtml
Database of renewable energy products and professionals across the world

Healthy Buildings Consultancy
Email: ecohouse@iol.ie

Natural Step
http://www.naturalstep.org/com/nyStart
The Natural Step (TNS) offers a sustainability blueprint for society become more sustainable.

Van Der Ryn Architects
http://www.vanderryn.com/
Website of Van Der Ryn Architects in California. Sim Van Der Ryn's group practise ecological design and sustainable planning based on their proprietary 'Eco-Logic' methodology.

Yestermorrow
http://www.yestermorrow.org
Vermont's Yestermorrow, school of green construction and design

Waste Management
http://www.wastechange.com/
recycling, waste exchange, waste management

Repak Ireland
http://www.repak.ie/
Investigate whether a retail  business has its packaging recycling system in place. Co2 calculator also.

Bioregional / Bedzed
The UK based (in BEDZED) environmental consultancy that makes BEDzed work!

http://www.bioregional.co.uk/

 

Passive House institute (Germany – in English) http://www.passiv.de/07_eng/haupt_e.html

Mosart Design

Wicklow based architects and designers specialising in passive houses

www.mosart.ie

O2

International network for sustainable design
http://www.o2.org/

Ecobuild Network.
The US based ecological building network.
www.ecobuildnetwork.org

vBill MacDonough And Partners
http://www.mcdonough.com
One of the US's leading Green Thinkers

CIRIA
The UK Construction Industry’s Research and Information Agency
www.ciria.org.uk

Feasta

Irish Foundation for a sustainable economy.
www.feasta.org

The Low Carbon Trust UK
UK based not for profit company raising awareness of the links between buildings, the working and living patterns they support, and global warming.
http://www.lowcarbon.co.uk

Bill Dunster Architects

Founder of the Zero Emission Developments approach and designers of Bedzed.
http://www.zedfactory.com

Ecotect Software

Excellent early design stage software for low energy analysis -now owned by Autodesk

http://ecotect.com/

Bioneers

Amazing US organisation dedicated to inspiring and connecting all who work on sustainable solutions. The fantastic Bioneers conference is held every October in the Bay Area

http://www.bioneers.org/

PLEA

Passive and Low energy Building design. This top organization hosts a high level conference every year in a different country. The 2008 conference was in Dublin

http://www.plea-arch.net/PLEA/Home.aspx

 

The Living Building Institute

Initiators of the Living Building Challenge –an initiative to move sustainable building on form being less bad to being truly helpful to nature

http://www.ilbi.org/

TED

The highly influential forum for ‘ideas worth spreading’

http://www.ted.com/

 

Biomimicry

The approach to design (of all kinds) that sees nature as model, measure and mentor

http://www.biomimicry.net/

 

Code for Sustainable Homes

The UKs new sustainability in homes design system

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/professionals/en/1115314116927.html

 

LEED

US leadership in energy and environment design scheme

http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1988

 

Car Sharing

Irelands premier car sharing club

http://www.gocar.ie/

 

Cradle to Cradle Thinking

This ground breaking protocol (from the famous book of the same name) for how to categorise materials so that they are used in a way that is truely in harmony with nature  - and prove it - is the future of material selection.

http://www.c2ccertified.com/

Eco-minimalism.

Howard Liddell of Gaia Architects Scotland gives his take on doing more with less, choosing simple green design strategies over eco fix technologies and reviews what has worked and failed over 4 decades of building greenly. He has recently published a book on the same subject that’s a must read. 

http://www.seda2.org/articles/Ecominimalism.html

SOLEARTH CLIENTS AND PROJECT LINKS

 

Emerald Project - Announcement on go ahead to construction

http://www.brl.ie/pdf/nletter_81.pdf

 

Spiritual Care Centre (Dechen Shying) Dzogchen Beara

http://www.spcare.org/

 

Solais Bhride

http://www.solasbhride.ie/ (see Development Page)

 

The Village
http://www.thevillage.ie
Irelands first and most exciting Eco Village project designed by Solearth. Under construction, sites available  (July 2009). Get in now !

 

Wildfowl and Wetland Trust

http://www.wwt.org.uk/


   
 
   

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