Green Log Awards

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2009 GREEN LOG Home Awards!  This year has seen a dramatic increase in the public’s desire to find green building solutions for their homes.  We are proud that our contest is able to highlight some of the best solutions in the world.  From water conservation to your kitchen countertops, there are hundreds of ways make your home healthier, more efficient and sustainable.

This year we had 14 categories and over 60 nominees.  The judges found many categories filled with worthy candidates. Determining their overall winner was often difficult.  This is a testament to the quality of nominees we had in 2009.  There can be, however, just one winner in each category. View the winners now! See what the judges had to say.

After you have reviewed the Winners, check out the recipients of the 2009 People’s Choice Awards.  These are the results of how you voted.  Did your favorite green building product or service win?

We at the GREEN LOG Awards would like to thank our sponsors, judges, nominees and all of the people who took the time to review our nominees and vote!  Here’s hoping next year is even more successful than 2009!

Although the public voting portion of the 2009 GREEN LOG Home Awards has come to an end, your ability to learn about all of the exciting green building solutions is still here!  When the winners are announce next Thursday, we will celebrate their well-earned honor.  However; it is important to remember that all of the nominees deserve recognition for the part they play in making our homes healthier and more efficient.

The goal of the GLA has always been to shine a spotlight on all innovative green building solutions.  The intent is that if you are seeking a product or service for your home building project, you can utilize this program to help find the solutions that will work best for you and your family.

So for everyone that voted, promoted or participated in the 2009 GLA’s, we would like to thank you!  Each year we proceed, our goal is to spread our reach and find the most innovative and useful green building solutions in the world.  To learn when next year’s nominations will open, follow us on Twitter, subscribe to this RSS feed, or check back regularly!

If you are interested in seeing how our founders, PrecisionCraft Log Homes and Mountain Architects, have helped our clients to build green, check out our Green Building Spotlight.

Earth Day brought with it an almost 30% spike in daily votes cast!  As we push to break last year’s voting record, we were happy to see that Earth Day sparked more people to vote in the 2009 GREEN LOG Awards.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank this year’s sponsors and judges.  Chase has once again agreed to be our GREEN WORLD level sponsor.  Their continued support is very much appreciated. We are also very lucky this year to have such a great group of judges from a wide spectrum of the green building world.

As public voting continues, our dedicated judges are busy evaluating this year’s nominees.  2009 judges include: Jim Young, President of program founder, PrecisoinCraft Log Homes; Matt Franklin, Lead Designer, Mountain Architects Inc.; Charles Bevier, Editor, Building Systems Magazine; Allison Friedman, Editor, RateItGreen.com; Donna Peak, Editor, Country’s Best Log Homes Magazine; Barbara Kessler, Editor, GreenRightNow.com. Learn more about each of our 2009 judges.

So if you have already voted, THANKS!  If you haven’t, what are you waiting for?  And don’t forget to spread the word!

Voting for the 2009 GREEN LOG Home Awards is open!  Vote in 14 categories ranging from Renewable Energy to Insulation and Countertops.  Just like our inaugural year, we have some really innovative products and solutions.

The combination of new building regulations, enhanced rebate programs for green building solutions, and a lower cost of building mean that green building products and services are in high demand. We at the GREEN LOG Awards are proud to help connect homebuilders with the companies who are leading the way.

Review, investigate, learn and vote for your favorite green building solution today!  Voting ends May 7th and results will be announced May 14th.

The nomination period for the 2009 GREEN LOG Awards has officially come to an end.  We are very excited about the list of nominees and the creative solutions that they represent.

Nominees will be introduced on the 16th of April, and voting will begin!  We anticipate anther great turnout for voting by the public.  We wish good luck to all of our nominees, but know that their solutions already help each of us “win” by reducing the carbon footprint of building homes.

On April 22nd, millions of people around the world will come together to celebrate Earth Day — a commitment to taking care of our planet, and to fighting climate change. In anticipation of Earth Day, Google employees have been looking for ways to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability. . Here are a few more ways to get you started with Google Green:

• If you use Google Checkout to donate to a non-profit environmental organization on behalf of anyone you know, Google will generate a personal view of Google Maps that includes a marker representing your donation. The people you donate on behalf of will get an email about your contribution, and if they follow your example, their donation will be marked on your map as well. Google will connect the markers, so that you can watch how your generosity spreads as more and more people donate. Visit Checkout’s Earth Day page to learn more.

• Take a moment to download the newest version of Google Earth, which launched just this week. While you’re exploring its fancy new features , be sure to check out some of the latest Global Awareness layers (found in the left-side “Layers” panel) that celebrate the beauty and biodiversity on Earth, like ARKive’s Endangered Species and Greenpeace’s Stop Climate Change. And we encourage you to visit the Google Earth Outreach Showcase, which features a number of environmentally-focused KMLs that can be downloaded and viewed in Google Earth.

Tell the world what you’re doing for Earth Day (and beyond) by uploading a message to Google’s official Earth Day ‘08 site. Get together with friends, family or coworkers, grab a camera, and take five minutes to put yourselves on the map. From the everyday to the extraordinary, Google wants to hear about your plans to take on climate change and make our planet a greener place.