Smart Building Choice for Fire Endurance

Smart Building

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101484″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”181375″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”109615″] Insulated Concrete Blocks – The Smart Building Choice One of the most devastating forces of nature is fire, whether it’s a naturally occurring wildfire or otherwise. Fires can quickly destroy homes and businesses, sweeping through an area far more quickly than many realize. When it comes to construction of…

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Texas School Cedars International Academy Goes Solar

commercial solar panels

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery el_id=”gallery-161348″ type=”carousel” medias=”101580,101581,101582,101583,101584″ carousel_lg=”1″ carousel_md=”1″ carousel_sm=”1″ gutter_size=”3″ carousel_interval=”3000″ carousel_navspeed=”400″ carousel_loop=”yes” carousel_nav=”yes” carousel_nav_mobile=”yes” carousel_dots=”yes” carousel_dots_mobile=”yes” carousel_dots_inside=”yes” carousel_dot_padding=”2″ stage_padding=”0″ single_overlay_opacity=”50″ single_padding=”2″ uncode_shortcode_id=”173488″][vc_single_image media=”101587″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”172322″][vc_column_text] “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Richard Buckminster Fuller Texas School Goes Solar From…

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Green Building Progress – April 2016

Green Building Progress

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101724″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”206179″][vc_column_text] NATiVE Green Building Progress – “Works in Progress April 2016” Welcome to the first release of our Monthly Work In Progress Photo blog where we visually reveal our green building in progress projects. Please enjoy these images and stay tuned for next months edition where we explore more of our…

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Tecolote Farm Goes Solar

Tecolote Farm

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101749″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”133125″][vc_column_text] Only a few miles down the road from the 30MW Webberville Solar Farm that energizes Austin, there is another groundbreaking solar farm, and this one produces clean energy as well as delicious organic vegetables. Located just thirteen miles east of downtown Austin, Tecolote Farm (tecolotefarm.net), long known as an organic produce…

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Zero Energy Home

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101754″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”193089″][vc_column_text] It’s been a little over a year since we first met UT literature professors Liz and Alan. They had spent over 30 years living in the same house without doing much to it. The house was showing the wear of 30 years of raising a family and building two successful…

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Solar Powered Farm – Milagro

Solar Powered Farm

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101766″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”124559″][vc_column_text] Milagro Farm Goes Solar by Amy Olsen At 5:00 every morning we stumble out of bed, grab our headlamps and start our days. Kris heads out to the pasture to feed our chickens, we’ve lost count at over 4,000 of them now. The low hum of the silo and the…

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Building a Net Zero House…Part Two

net zero home

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101826″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”202640″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”193767″] “It is amazing to see the lot without the house, quite weird, really. Are we brave or crazy? People are asking. We say brave.” – Liz We say brave too. Not everyone would decide to build a net zero house, sign off on the plans, and then leave to London…

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Going Net Zero

Net Zero

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image media=”101890″ media_width_percent=”100″ shape=”img-round” uncode_shortcode_id=”413862″][vc_column_text] August 27, 2014 We arrived at Liz and Alan’s Tarrytown (a small Austin community located west of downtown) home early in the morning. The air was humid and the sun was already beginning to peek through the trees. The house was set back from the street surrounded by a wooden…

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