Guest post: Shedworking’s Five Favourite Green Building Bloggers

Whilst I am on blogging “sick leave”, I have invited anyone who fancies it to write a guest blog post. If you’re interested in contributing a self-build, green or cat-related post, please email me! Meantime, many thanks to Alex Johnson for this contribution.

Shedworkers are green workers and this is reflected in the interest on the Shedworking site whenever we feature a green issue, technique or supplier. Consequently, we keep a keen eye on the best of the environmentally-oriented bloggers who focus on architectural issues, of which our favourite five (actually six if you count carefully with some others suggested but that’s not such a snappy title) are:

1) Lloyd Alter at Treehugger
Lloyd is not only a decent chap, he is arguably the most influential blogger on green architecture (and we’re proud to have brought his cracking outhouse to the world via Shedworking). He is readable, intelligent, has a fine sense of humour and isn’t afraid to be controversial when needed.

2) Jetson Green
Run by Preston Koerner who calls it a ‘web magazine’, it covers anything to do with “green building, sustainable architecture, good design, clean technology in the built environment, and eco-friendly development”. It covers mainly American builds and issues but does reach out elsewhere sometimes. Preston is also on Twitter.

3) The Green Workplace
Run by Leigh Stringer who works global architectural firm HOK, it calls itself “the leading blog for those who design, manage or occupy green workplaces” which is quite true. Wideranging and well researched, this is another place I go to on a daily basis.

4) Mary’s Greened House Adventure
Though slightly in abeyance at the moment, this is an excellent blog which follows Mary’s construction of a green garden office from pre-drawing board to actually chopping up the straw bales for the walls herself. A personal but also useful blog, Mary is an international environmental consultant

5) Tiny House Blog and Tiny House Design
Not specifically green but all about the delights of living small rather than wasting big

I’d also recommend regular visits to Inhabitat (especially their Prefab Friday posts) and materialicious (again, not obsessively green but with a green sensibility).

- Alex Johnson