An artist's conception of the green new Transbay Terminal being built in San Francisco. Image via Inhabitat.

One of my favorite things to do in Turkey is go down to the main otogar (bus station), ask around for buses to interesting destinations, and hop on.

Bamboo is round and hollow while floors are flat and solid, so to make bamboo floors they cut the stuff up into strips and compress it with resin into solid chunks, that can be sliced into flooring. They make a lot of it in China; they also make a lot of regular furniture and produce a lot of waste.

Photos: Jasmine Van Hevel, Mauro Brigham and Olivier Papegnies via archdaily

A landmark water tower in the Belgian village of Steenokkerzeel has demonstrated again that almost any structure can be repurposed; in this case it has been converted into a single fami

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While following the development of small green prefabs, It has become increasingly clear that you cannot separate the home from the context, and that what we really need is a sort of green trailer park, where people can own their unit but share common resources. It turns out that it exists, and has since 1962; Dr.

All images from Push House

In much of the world, hemp is thought of as a useful building material; Warren recently showed us an interesting house from Australia and it is common in the UK.

It is a tough environment for brick-and-mortar retailers right now. It is tougher still if you are in a niche market, like green bricks, mortar and eco-supplies.

We're big fans of Sarah Wigglesworth, the English architect who mixes green design with high style. Dezeen shows the James Leal Centre in Redbridge, London. Its defining feature is the monitor roof, which has solar thermal collectors on the south pitch, and monitor windows on the steeper north pitches.

Mainstream Greenhome

Four years ago when I trashed the Mainstream green McMansion, which even Bill McDonough praised "a new milestone in mainstream green construction," just about everybody thought it was a fine idea.

Not exactly Scott Adams' new green home, but the one he designed for Dilbert.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams writes about his new house in the Wall Street Journal:

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built.

Preston at Jetson Green shows us Clayton Homes' i-house 2.0, a larger version of their green modern prefab introduced two years ago (and seen in TreeHugger here). It is a handsome design, beautifully presented.