We’ve designed 8 green home projects. A hybrid ‘Earthship’ in Taos in 1992 which heats itself through freezing winters maximizes sustainability and resource use.  We work with LEED consultants, focusing on biomorphic designs that combine green technologies with organic architecture.  We also do energy for living in balance.

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We work in any county with projects in LA, as well as Kern County where we’re designing a healing community on 8 acres from the ground up.

Shubin+Donaldson Architects have completed 50 green home projects since 1990.  We are pivotally involved in the development of many residential, commercial, and service projects at Loreto Bay, Baja Mexico, where design attitudes towards energy and resource efficiency are held paramount.  The development’s green sensibilities extend across all project types, attempting to preserve local tradition and culture while being enhanced by the use of smart technologies, advanced building systems, and the sensitive selection of appropriate and environmentally conscious materials.  Two of our staff are LEED Accredited, and we are affiliated with the USGBC and Los Angeles Business Council (Energy Committee).

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Los Angeles and Santa Barbara areas

We approach all our designs from a green perspective; we utilize local, renewable and recyclable (or recycled) materials and design with a passive solar approach to maximize efficiencies while integrating more active systems where appropriate. Principal Tracy Stone has been involved with sustainable design since 1982. She is a member of the US Green Building Council, the AIA Committee on the Environment, and teaches sustainable design at Art Center College in Pasadena and at Woodbury University. She received her LEED Accreditation in February of 2003.

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Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo

Translation of Space is an architectural collaborative made up of architects, interior designers, landscape designers, developers, and real estate professionals.  Our goal is to promote sustainable, modern design that directly reflects the needs of our clients.

Arkin Tilt Architects is an award-winning firm specializing in energy and resource efficient design. We have extensive experience with alternative construction systems, including straw-bale and rammed earth, renewable energy systems, greywater, and non-toxic and recycled materials. Our projects include residential and commercial, park buildings, religious facilities, and Eco-Resort planning and design. We have won the Acterra Business Award for the Sustainable Built Environment, an AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Project Award, and numerous design awards.

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Alameda, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, Trinity

My ecological design experience began thirty years ago, when I chose my architecture school and focused my studies there on ecological considerations. In subsequent years, while the market had other interests, I researched and wrote about the impacts of buildings on humans and the biosphere. As public interest grew, I designed passive-solar homes of rammed earth, straw bales, and other green materials. Eventually, I was able to focus my practice solely on ecological building projects. In addition to practicing architecture, I have continued to write and teach about ecological design all over the country, most recently focusing on classes for homeowners on ecological remodeling.

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Sonoma

Chris Benedict currently has fifty-six green multifamily projects completed, under construction, or on the boards. Her first green housing project, the substantial gut rehabilitation of eighteen small multifamily buildings in Brooklyn, New York was completed in 1998. In 1999 she was awarded Energy Professional of the Year by the International Association of Energy Engineers for the project.

299 East Third Street is a good example of Chris’s work. This thirty-eight apartment new-construction project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan uses 15% of the energy of a typical apartment building for no additional construction cost. Chris thinks holistically, outside the normal “green” box, and does not use “guidelines” and “point systems” for her designs. Her projects do not need grants or additional funding. Chris is a licensed architect in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., and is not affiliated with LEED, USGBC or the AIA. 

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New York area

I incorporate/integrate “green” into every project I design. In addition to the dozen or so straw bale projects I’ve done (some of them off-grid, earth-plastered, etc.), I incorporate"green" considerations into the General Notes for all of my projects. The final built result, however, does not always embody my own personal set of standards and criteria because I don’t have complete control. I am a LEED-AP (Accredited Professional), and a founding Board Member of the Redwood Empire Chapter of the USGBC. I co-teach a year-long series of classes at Sonoma State in a Professional Certificate Program in Green Building.

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Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma, Trinity