BuildDirect Green Blog
Posts about green building, green living, and green lifestyles


Sustainable Vehicles, Pt. 5: Today?s Electric Cars
Despite continued resistance from the oil industry, politicians and the media, the electric car is finally back on the road. Batteries, driving ranges and prices continue to improve to appeal to a ...

Sustainable Logistics: Pearl Jam & Carbon Reduced Rock Shows
Logistics is a big part of every business to one degree or another, especially when you’re shipping heavy goods across countries, or even continents. For example, we at BuildDirect have our hand in...

Sustainable Vehicles, Pt 4: Electric Car Comeback
In my last post about car culture and the ’70s energy crisis, several events came together in the early ’70s to get cleaner and more efficient cars on the road. Japanese and European cars became po...

Pedestrian-Friendly City! 5 Articles About Walkable Cities
Our economies and our lifestyles are becoming more and more dependent upon the health of our cities, and outlying suburbs. In an article I read recently about how pedestrian unfriendly community de...

Sustainable Vehicles, Pt 3: ?70s Car Culture & The Future
I?ve already written about how electric cars were pushed aside to make room for gasoline vehicles in the early 20th century. I also wrote about how highly renewable hemp was outlawed at the same ti...