Category: Green building

A neighbor, Joel Feinstein, forwarded me a case study from the Center for Neighborhood Technology. While reading the report, I spent the entire time thinking, Yes! That’s so true! That’s our problem! But I also found a few surprises. I invite you to take a look and see …

My neighbors suffered from frequent backyard and basement flooding. But recently they added a backyard extension to the house, along with a new drainage system, and it seems to be working out great. How’d they figure it out? Their contractors checked the soil by taking core samples, drilling …