Here’s one instance of green-washing that we’re 100% behind. The Reverse Graffiti Project imbues the guerrilla tactics of street-art with an eco-friendly element, detourning the definition of graffiti by actually cutting through and cleaning up grit to leave a lasting impression.

Green building is gaining acceptance, but right now there are growing pains to grapple with if you're a do-it-yourselfer.

What do you do after your straw bale walls go up? Get plastered! (Oh ho ho!)

When I wanted sunshine, I got rain: But now that I'm a straw-bale evangelist, whats a little moisture to me?

Hay is for horses; straw is for building test walls in a three-day straw-bale building course.

Hey, did you hear the one about Jay Leno and his eco-friendly Burbank garage?

JAY LENO likes anything that rolls and explodes and makes noise, and his Big Dog Garage offers proof. Its 17,000 square feet are packed with rolling, exploding and noisy things -- most of them four-wheeled, rare and expensive.

Some people like dancing. Some people like parties. I like parties where I can talk green building while other people dance.

Philip Higgs is reusing the materials from an old studio on his property to build a new one. (Take that, New York Times!)

The deconstruction continues. Over the weekend we almost had the roof off – but then the rains came

Make way for the new: The old, decrepit studio is now wall-less, soon to be roofless, so ruthless am I in its deconstruction.