Why Being Green Saves G...

Farmer's Markets What kind of differences can your reduced waste output per household make? Plenty. Review your bill and add up those additional fees for waste water and sewage treatment. It costs money to build more landfills and incinerate ash. Your money. Saving money and the...
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More Sustainable, Envir...

Hybrid Car Most of us didn’t grow up in sustainable households. Rather, we grew up in homes where consumerism was the norm. But eco-friendly living and information puts a defining barrier against filling landfills with more excess unnecessary packaging, refuse, and reclaimable...
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Start a Green League of...

green leaves fall Have you ever held a Hall of Green meeting? You can put one on your calendar right now! The meeting place is your own home. These are just like the Hall of Justice meetings in the Saturday morning cartoons like Superman. Except now the Justice league must unite...
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Could You Take Your Hom...

Planned Living Taking your home off the grid is an ambitious enterprise but a praiseworthy one. What if during the next power outage your home environment sailed onward? Solar energy devices have become much more sophisticated and photovoltaic power cells can redistribute energy...
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Put Your Truss in Small...

Truss Built Home You may have trussed a chicken in your time but have you ever trussed a roof? Trusses are hot right now in the sustainable building design world. Using non chemically treated wood for the trusses or bamboo in your flooring, or partially recycled glass in your kitchen...
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Rain water collection a...

A rain catchment opportunity      Efficient use of natural accruing snow or rain water demands that green households have the rainwater collector. Rain water collectors are now appearing in hardware stores, lawn stores, nursery and garden stores, and other places where...
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Green Wood in the Wild...

Recapturing green wood from green sources may be just as easy as it looks. With a few proper guidelines to reclaiming naturally occurring and man made green wood from highway or roadway natural sources, your next green project might be a short bike ride away. There are some people...
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Found wood makes great ...

Found wood makes great project wood Go on a wood gathering hike and capture project wood for fencing, treehouses, wood burning fireplaces and other projects. Natural reclaimed wood from the great outdoors cuts down on exhaust fumes from county trucks paid to stall diesel fumes while...
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Found Wood Highway Clea...

The finding of usable wood is best after storms have blown trees down and construction and tree trimming crews have visited the main areas. Picturesque branches and twisted twigs make great fence decorations for cottage style or bungalow yards and porches. Crews don’t have time...
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Green Builders read Gre...

Green Literature reads green Check out some of the better new green remodeling ad green living books by some of the best sustainable authors out there. “Green From The Ground Up” is an outstanding green building primer with many technical details and sustainability tips....
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