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Alex has found this great little bin..
Its a prototype, so Alex wont be getting one for his upcoming birthday 
Greenhouse is a bin which looks like a shed. Press the ‘porch’ pedal and, voila, the roof opens for your rubbish requirements. Sadly it’s only a prototype at the moment, a marvellous idea from Jantze Brogard Asshoff.
NTNews reports
A MAN’S home might be his castle, but for George and Jacinda Brown their home is their shed.
And it’s an environmentally friendly one at that – the Brown’s Batchelor shed has just been named the Australia’s most “planet friendly” dwelling.
The shed received the accolade from the Alternative Technology Association, which has been running a Sustainable Shed competition.
The Browns have turned the Aussie tradition of shed dwelling into something more like eco-village living.
“We have a kitchen shed, a workshop, a metal shed and the chook-shed studio,” Ms Brown said.
“George built them all, starting with the kitchen shed and, except for the posts, it is made with second-hand materials.”
Ms Brown said the Chook Shed got its name because most of the materials used to build it came from an old battery chook shed that was being demolished.
The sheds are also solar powered, including their water pump, and grey-water feeds the gardens.
“George also hand-crafted all the furniture using a variety of salvaged timbers,” she said.
Of course if you have an eco-shed then please share it on readersheds.co.uk
John from secrets-of-shed-building has kindly written us a post about green roofs which I know a lot of you are thinking about and something Iam sure a few of the Eco-sheds will have.
and a bit like Sarah’s shed here
Green roofs are a popular choice on new permanent buildings nowadays because of planning requirements to reduce surface runoff which can overload local drainage systems. Installing a green shed roof on your shed requires that the shed roof be strong enough to carry the increased weight. Here are a few questions (with answers) that are commonly asked about green shed roofs.
1. What plants do I use?
There is a wide range of suitable plants. Green roof plants should be selected on the basis that they can cope with normal roof conditions, which can be dry and windy. Plants are selected for a particular roof on the basis of aesthetic requirements and site conditions. The core of any green roof are varieties of Sedum although herbaceous, bulbous plants and certain grasses are used.
2. Do I need to water it?
No. The only time under normal seasonal conditions that a green roof should be watered is if the plants are installed during the summer. Green roof plants are selected to survive under the normal environmental conditions that they are likely to experience on the roof.
3. What roof pitch will I need for my green roof?
The plants and growing media should be stable and successful at pitches of up to 30 degrees. green roofs are also perfectly suited to curved roof applications.
3. Do Green roofs have a track record?
Green roofing systems were originally developed in Germany have a history of 50 to 60 years.
5. What time of year is best for installing a green roof?
The best time of year for installation is late summer/early autumn. Spring and winter installations are also acceptable. Installation during the summer is possible although greater care of the plants is required until they are well established.
Visit Secrets of Shed Building for more details on building an extensive green roofon your shed.
Happy new year sheddies, I hope this year brings you more shed related antics than 2008.
I hope Shed Week 2009 will be the best ever (If I get my planning done now)
Anyway talking about Shed Week I would like to report that Lloyd Alter, ‘treehugger’ and eco architect has agreed again to be a judge in this years competition, cheers Lloyd.
A bit about Lloyd, who hopefully will be putting his expertise forward for the new Eco-Shed category plus have some good views on the International Shed of the Year.
Lloyd Alter has been an architect, developer, inventor, and builder of prefab housing. He now writes for TreeHugger, is an Associate Professor at Ryerson University teaching sustainable design, and has written for Azure and Ontario Nature magazines. In the course of his previous work developing small residential units and now prefabs, Lloyd became convinced that we just use too much of everything- too much space, too much land, too much food, too much fuel, too much money, and that the key to sustainability is to simply use less. And, the key to happily using less is to design things better.
So if you have an Eco shed, be it made from recycled materials, covered in grass or anything else, then please “Share it” for Shed of the Year 2009.
John over at Secrets of Shed building has a great competition running.
In Our “Paint My Shed and Save the Planet” Competition
Welcome to the second www.secrets-of-shed-building-shed.com competition. These competitions are great fun to enter (and I enjoy hosting them as well!). This time round the prize of a $50 Amazon voucher should enable you to purchase a couple of good shed books to get your ‘sheducation’ started.
There’s two parts to this competition.
First – Please help me decorate my shed!
I’m in the middle of building a shed and need some ideas for how it will look. Download the folding paper model here , feel free to get creative on colour schemes and location.I tried this out with my kids and this is what happened!
The competition starts on 28th November 2008 and will run until the end of January 2009.
Sounds like fun.
Also i would like to remind you potential Eco/Green Sheddies that you can add your Shed to the Shed of the Year 2009 competition under our new “Eco Shed” category, we have a couple on there already but Iam sure there are a lot more out there.
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