Rediscover Gardening...

Green gardening is capitalizing on a huge trend in post boomer culture: The back to basics home model. As a member of a civilization whose pride in cellophane wrapped microwaveable food, I can relate to the joy of learning about gardening almost for the first time. Some modern sustainable...
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Water Use Innovations...

Ever look at the monthly water bill and wonder where the rain runoff and the snowfall went? Why does so much money and processing cost go toward water? The sustainable theory of living green is that to re-use water and snow as drinking or irrigation water, collection and piping must...
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Shelter made from Trash wins Contest

Shelter made from Trash...

Recycled Engineering The dome provides shelter for the homeless and is made from plastic, wire and packing peanuts. Pretty much, trash. The trash-plex looks like a Mongolian yurt, and let Max walk away with $10,000 and a Dell laptop. He also got a trip to Boston out of it. But Max...
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Living Like Ed...

green solutions The book “Living Like Ed” by Ed Begley Jr., showcases the change in modern mainstream literature. Whereas twenty years ago this book might have seemed exotic, elitist, and out of reach, today’s Begley’s message is sustainable by all. Ed Begley...
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Organic Shopping...

Taking steps to ensure your family’s well-being means knowing toxins from unwelcome chemicals in the things they eat. One response to the wall of toxins leaching through water tables and chemicals in foods is a the green living movement towards organically prepared food. Concern...
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Don’t Throw That ...

lumber wood re-use Ever seen a great tip or do it yourself project and noticed that a lot of the materials incorporated into the project were things you had thrown away? Even if you have no immediate use for some of the spare materials and scraps from your home garden remodeling and...
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Planning for Sustained Building

Planning for Sustained ...

Truss Built Home Building green is ambitious and praiseworthy. Sustainable means using materials made out of recycled components and previous life lumber. But as the availability of many recycled materials such as flooring, insulation, fixtures and other dynamics are still being...
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Sustainable Watershed...

green solutions It is necessary when reviewing household methods to go green and so forth, to see what doing nothing does. Many households damage water tables every day with careless pouring of toxinous materials down drains. The work done to counteract these activities is expensive,...
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Green Careers...

Green Footprints Make Careers Here is the latest word on careers in the eco-friendly sciences. The sustainable living movement gains momentum an the commercial and nonprofit sector, as well as the government and regulatory fields need sustainable experts. Those straw bales don’t...
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Eco friendly Cleaning Tips

Eco friendly Cleaning T...

Clean water tables have less toxic pesticides Avoid using toxic bathroom, kitchen and household toxic cleansers by utilizing the baking soda and vinegar approach to almost every household cleaning issue.  Off-gassing and toxic fumes from stringent cleaners can make even the brightest...
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