Eco-Friendly Alternative To Treated Timber

What a brilliant invention this is. I highly recommend checking out NAC Flex if you’re looking for a safer alternative to treated timber. The video covers not only the benefits of the product, but also the dangers of treated timber. The timber is treated with arsenic, among other things. Andrew Duncan, the inventor of NAC Flex points out that treated timber is used in playgrounds, where kids are touching it, and it’s so toxic that it can only be disposed of by burying in a landfill where it continues to leech toxins for generations.

NAC Flex (NAC standing for Natural Alternative Composite) is a safe, viable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly alternative to CCA treated wood.

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How To Build An Eco Friendly Home on a Budget

This is a guest post by Cynthia Booth from architecture career opportunities blog.

New Jersey school of architecture professor shows us how to build an environmental-friendly house cheaply

Do you know two NY based designers designed an asymmetrical home with fixed cost of $250,000?

Designers and Jersey City citizens Richard Garber (assistant tutor at NJ-New Jersey Institute of Technology’s University of Architecture and Design in Newark) and Nicole Robertson of GRO Architects in NYC rose to the difficult task of designing and managing the building of a single-family house that’s a real proof of both innovative design and eco-friendly technology. Read more..