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A super source for green building materials, Environmental Home Center's selection includes non-toxic paint, natural carpets, sustainable wood products, energy-efficient insulation and people-friendly cleaning supplies. A handy how-to guide and list of faq's help you stay smart and build/paint/renovate green. They know that together, we can build a better world. [Environmental Home Center]

Dogwood Initiative helps people in British Columbia change the balance of power to create healthy, prosperous communities by promoting dialogue and facilitating collaborative action. They help communities gain more control of the land and resources around them so they can be managed in a way that is sustainable for future generations. [Dogwood Initiative]

Led by sustainable design superstart Cameron Sinclair, AFH's mission is to promote architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crises. Recently, this has included work with tsunami victims in Sri Lanka and India and a project to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Emily in Grenada. Whatever they're up to, Architecture for Humanity creates opportunities for architects and designers from around the world to help communities in need. [Architecture for Humanity]

Vista is a micro-thin protective layer for windows that helps control the environment in any room, improving the temperature, energy use and lighting, and cuts down on fading on interior items. Made in an ISO 9001-certified factory, their products let light and energy in, help keep glare out and won't let too much heat or cold escape. [VISTA Window Film

Ecology is the foundation Rana Creek's work. As an environmental restoration and consulting firm, they attempt to replicate nature's cycles, structure, function and diversity; the goal is to restore biodiversity and preserve healthy ecosystems through an integrated design/build processs. They employ scientists, ecologists, planners, designers, contractors and horticulturalists to tackle just about any sustainable design project. [Rana Creek]

With offices in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Columbus, New York, London, Beijing and Shanghai, NBBJ is a truly global architecture and design firm that believes that ideas change everything. As the third largest design firm in the country (and fifth-largest in the world), NBBJ has experience with just about everything, and they do it all with a smart growth approach and a goal of fostering meaningful, socially reinforcing communities. [NBBJ]

The Glidehouse modular home is a modern home designed for clean, simple living in collaboration with nature. It offers an affordable, low-maintenance, well-designed green housing alternative. Built in a factory, Glidehouse uses the most modern and environmentally-friendly building methods and materials. It can be built in as little as eight to fourteen months, at a cost comparable to or below traditional site-built homes. [Glidehouse]

Encompassing architecture, urban planning, landscapes and interior design, Mithun has embraced resource-efficient and sustainable design for over a decade. Their portfolio includes projects from campus and workplace planning to residential and mixed use projects for clients from REI to Duke University to Seattle's Pier 56. Definite leaders in sustainable design and architecture. [Mithun]

Awarded the 2005 Home Builder Award in the BuiltGreen Design Competition, energy-saving and healthy-air features are standard on all Martha Rose structures. They are a member of "Built Green," a program that was implemented by the Master Builders Association to encourage builders to construct and renovate homes in a more environmentally compatible way. It is a holistic approach that covers design, site work, material choices, energy conservation and education of the workers and consumers. [Martha Rose Construction]

The Loftcube Project asks you to imagine the endless possibilities of living on a rooftop. They imagined a temporary, minimalistic domicile suited to a nomadic lifestyle in a dense urban environment, and placed in an "undiscovered treasure of sunlit property" -- rooftops. These personal penthouses can move with its inhabitant, or stick around to provide shelter for anyone seeking to live the high life. [The Loftcube Project]

Living Systems Design offers an integrative philosophy to on-site water management issues. Their goal is to advance environmental stewardship by promoting economically viable solutions to environmental problems with individuals, businesses and government entities; they'll design a roofscape, hardscape or landscape for any hydrological situation. [Living Systems Design]

Founded in 1969, Jones & Jones hopes to give a voice to the landscape and its inhabitants through integrating architecture and landscape architecture. They received the first ever Firm Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2003; in everything they do, Jones & Jones strives for architecture that springs out of living places. [Jones & Jones]

iGreenBuild provides green building and construction industry professionals and concerned citizens with information and resources about environmentally responsible, sustainable building. In addition to articles about green, sustainable building design for commercial and residential building construction, iGreenBuild offers news about green building and sustainability and green building materials, products, product reviews, books and samples. [iGreenBuild]

FlatPak is a system of pre-fab components that ship flat and is assembled on-site, designed to create a living space as unique as the person building it. Each component is 8 feet wide; at the end of each section, the builder and designer make a decision: all glass, some glass, no glass. The result is a tailor-made, resource-efficient home. [FlatPak]

Recipient of the National AIA Honor Award and the National AIA COTE ‘Top Ten’ Award, Croxton originated and developed much of the practice of environmental, sustainable and human-centered architecture and design. The NRDC, National Audubon Society, Environmental Defense and US Environmental Protection Agency have been all beneficiaries of Croxton Collaborative's research into the nature of materials, levels of toxicity and high quality, benign alternatives. [Croxton Collaborative Architects]