Links

The following are a list of links I think you may find informative and interesting.

Contractor/Suppliers



http://www.polarbearconstruction.com
Polar Bear Construction - Barrett Burr and Doris Faltys-Burr at (360) 866-1456.


email: petechramiec@mac.com
Bicycle Building Company Homes! Not bikes... a small homebuilding company that builds energy efficient, beautiful houses.


http://ecobuilding.org/
The Northwest EcoBuilding Guild: a great resource for green building.


http://www.beechtreebc.com/
Beech Tree Building Co. offers high quality wood cabinets, furniture and specialty finish work.


http://www.fortresssupplies.com/
Fortress Supplies offers small concrete structures and low energy equipment for small homes.


http://home.comcast.net/~k.haffner/site/
South Sound Solar.


http://www.510interiors.com/
510 Interiors offers everything in interior green finish materials.


http://www.windfalllumber.com/
Local reclaimed and certified wood lumber company.


http://spshabitat.org/restore/
The ReStore: reclaimed and reusable building materials run by and benefiting Habitat for Humanity


http://www.olympiasalvage.org/
Olympia Salvage: diverts building materials from the landfills and environmental impacts, providing affordable building materials.


Informative/Interesting



http://www.goodgrub.org/index.php/page/show/home
GRuB (Garden Raised Bounty): Cultivating Youth, Kitchen Garden Project and Farmhouse. See link http://www.lucid9design.com/07grub/grub.php


http://www.usgbc.org/
US Green Building Council: everything you want to know about LEED


http://www.builtgreenomb.org/
The Built Green Program in the Olympia area


http://nbnetwork.org/
Natural Building Network: Information and resources for Natural Building principles.


http://www.spshabitat.org/ & http://www.spshabitat.org/Projects.php/
Links to South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity.


http://www.notsobighouse.com/
This link to Sarah Susanka’s popular influence on sustainable design is a great place for ideas and inspiration.


http://www.patternlanguage.com/
A Pattern Language was developed by Christopher Alexander. His work is a thought provoking look at how we relate to building design and how those structures and their environment reflect humanity.


http://www.hypatiainthewoods.org
The link to the Holly House—see community page.