An Earth Day celebration that's free and open to the public is coming to Alys Beach on Saturday, April 19th. A seminar on green building will kick off the day's festivities. Fonville Press will house the event. The event will focus on green and sustainable building practices, something for which Alys Beach is well known. MORE

The Discovery Channel is bringing "The World's Greenest Homes," to Alys Beach this week to film an episode. In the series, Alys Beach will be showcased alongside homes in Mexico, Tasmania, England, Canada and even an Australia tree house. The series seeks to show people living their lives in ecologically sustainable ways through things like green building practices. MORE

An Alys Beach courtyard home won for a major in this year's "American Institute of Architects/Chicago Design Awards" program. Designed by Doug Farr of Chicago's Farr Associates, the 2,400 square-foot home received the AIA Chicago Design Excellence Award for Environmental Sustainability. Some of the winning features were insulated concrete walls, geothermal heating and cooling, a shaded arcade, central courtyard, and shaded outdoor kitchen. MORE