Welcome to Live-Edge-Building.com

• Our approach is developing low-environmental impact healthy housing

• We utilize energy producing and energy-efficient design

• We emphasize the use and re-use of on-site, local, non-toxic materials

• We build soil and restore healthy water cycles

• We know how to help you provide food and an abundance of other human resources

• Evolve toward self-maintenance

• Cultivate bio-diversity and restore habitat

• Add value to your home

• Inspire with beauty and harmony

Our Commitment

Live-Edge-Building is committed to the generation and stewardship of healthy, resource rich buildings and landscapes. Our designs integrate a wide range of technologies, strategies, products and techniques to reduce a home's environmental impact to a minimum.

Live-Edge-Building housing features on-site renewable energy systems to provide clean energy to help reduce annual consumption and costs. Photo voltaic panels on the house generate electricity. Other renewable energy systems, such as solar hot water and geothermal energy systems, can also be used to produce reliable, low-cost, environmentally friendly energy.

The result is a highly energy-efficient home with low environmental impact that aims to produce as much energy each year as it consumes in the form of heat, light and power.

We combine and integrate design and building practices into an integrated “whole house” solution that meet the needs of both occupants and builders alike within the challenges of our global climate.

We specialize in ecologically sound design and sustainable development.

We bring to life inspiring and restorative environments which integrate your vision, provide an abundance of energy, food and other resources, and support thriving ecosystems.

Our Method

Live-Edge-Building is based on the principles of Permaculture (Permanent-Culture.) This is the practice of creating mutually beneficial relationships between human habitats and natural ecosystems. Our design team works on behalf of you and the environment, to create functional and harmoniously integrated buildings and landscapes. We cultivate resilient and beautiful ecosystems using natural environments as the model.

The Result

With vibrant beauty and unforced elegance a whole-system building and landscape emerges in flow with the natural world, emphasizing productivity, vitality and sustainability.

We Specialize In Buildings That Are:

Functional

• We create whole system buildings and landscapes creating multi-functional relationships between all the elements within a design.

• One example: Catch rainwater off the roof, store it in a decorative pond that reflects additional sunlight onto a tree to increase the sweetness of the fruit, cools the surrounding area and provides habitat for ducks that manage insects and fertilize your garden.

Productive

Your home is designed to be healthier, more comfortable and more efficient than traditional housing. Live-Edge-Building housing is designed to offer a wide range of positive benefits and advantages, including:

• Save money on energy costs all year round and protect your family from future energy price increases.

• Healthier, more comfortable living space - enjoy better indoor air quality, stable temperatures, more natural light and healthier building materials in your home.

• A greener choice for the environment - lower your family’s greenhouse gas emissions, conserve resources, reduce pollution and minimize your household’s ecological footprint.

• Your landscapes will satisfy a multitude of human resource needs while simultaneously cultivating environmental health and vitality.

• A better future - help make sure that future generations have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and a safe, healthy world to live in.

Sustainable

• Sustainability is about meeting resource needs without compromising the ecological framework that will support future generations. Ecologically sound design is a long-term investment that makes short-term economic sense. LIVE-EDGE-BUILDING is committed to demonstrating the principles of sustainability in its building and landscape practices and business operations including the support of local businesses and educational opportunities for community residents.

• It is not just individual homeowners that reap benefits from LIVE-EDGE-BUILDING homes. LIVE-EDGE-BUILDING communities will one day conserve water, land and habitat, reduce infrastructure requirements and costs, and protect existing local ecosystems. Sustainable planning reduces costs, protects the environment and creates healthy, vibrant and livable communities.