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The Easier Way To Find A Green Remodeling Contractor

November 17, 2010 By 4 Comments
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Today's guest blogger is Woodrow Aames, a regular blog contributor over on ReliableRemodeler.com, who put out great articles about homeownership and particularly how to connect with the right contractor for your given project.  Luckily for us, some of their writers have contributed material to this blog before. In this case, Woodrow talks about the business of finding a green remodeler, using a tool we all know and love; The INTERNET! *** Everyone will tell you, the best way to find a … [Read more...]

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10 Ways to Go Green When Gardening

July 7, 2010 By 8 Comments
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People keep gardens for a number of reasons.  But, one of the biggest ones is having a connection to the natural world in a physical way.  And I think too, there is a sense of getting back to one's roots, if you'll pardon the pun. After all, we as a species went through a pretty big gardening phase.  Before industrialization, the food we ate was the food we directly helped to grow .  Gardening and a connection to the natural world was not just a hobby. It was vital to survival. At this … [Read more...]

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A Green Olympic Games: In Process

February 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Our Vancouver 2010 Olympics are being touted, largely by the organizers perhaps, as the greenest Olympics in history. The Olympics are  a series of events featuring the paragon of athleticism, goal-oriented in nature ('gold-oriented" even), demonstrating excellence in its final and most fully formed manner.  After all, it takes years and years of training to get to Olympic levels of competence in any sport.  And we as spectators get to see that final result. And the same is true, I believe, … [Read more...]

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10 Green Living New Year’s Resolutions

December 28, 2009 By 5 Comments
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Since December commenced, there have been some great 'How to Have A Green Christmas' articles and blog posts out there.  I hope you've found them helpful.   At this point of course,  I have been shamefully caught out of time on getting you a  post of my own on this blog before the Christmas season had concluded. So to make up for it I've decided to find a few different ideas out there on the interwebs for you to consider for your New Year's resolutions this year.  And here they are with a … [Read more...]

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Video Tour of the ‘Green Life Smart Life” LEED Certified Home

December 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Thanks to some of our followers on Twitter, I was directed to this video which  showcases a Gold LEED Certified residence.  This example shows how green building and cutting edge technology seem to dovetail.  Take a look. You can get another first hand impression by reading this article on the Residential Systems Blog. The points made about green in the video, and also some of the numbers that comes out of utilizing the technology are truly impressive.  But, in some ways it's kind of … [Read more...]

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Green Building An Entire Town?

December 4, 2009 By 2 Comments

In recent years, natural disasters have caused untold damages to both properties, and to people's lives all over the world.  With tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, earthquakes in China, and Hurricane Katrina that laid waste to New Orleans and the surrounding area in 2005, it is clear that nature has a way of reminding us that we as a civilization are only a small part of a larger global context. But, these disasters also bring out the best in people, including the drive and creativity that helps to … [Read more...]

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Green Building Materials: Look, Performance, and Ethics Too

October 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

About a year and a half ago, we launched our green building guide and green flooring guide.  The reason for these pages was to get information out thereabout our specific products, and also about the very idea of green building materials as options for ethical renovations. Even at that point, not too many consumers knew too much about things like LEED points, for instance, or even about post-industrial tile, or strand-woven bamboo floors.  I think that has changed.  And I hope we've been a … [Read more...]

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Passive Design and Modern Green Building

October 20, 2009 By 4 Comments

Before being introduced to the world of building materials and construction, it never really occurred to me to think that the process of designing and constructing a building  should be any different from location to location.  Well, I suppose there is a question of greater heat retention in a place like Winnipeg, or North Dakota, where winters are more severe than they would be in, say, Palm Springs. Yet, even in these cases it is assumed that we've got large scale HVAC systems to account for … [Read more...]

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Green Building Business Tips for Contractors Article

August 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Thanks to @SerenArch on Twitter, I found this very informative article that outlines some best practices when it comes to understanding the business side of green building.  The article is taken from the Construction Today website. As the article itself states, green building is often presented in the media as the next big thing in the construction industry.  It's certainly struck me that way, and I've made that pretty apparent on this blog.   Yet, some practical points for the benefit of firms … [Read more...]

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McKinsey Report: Green Building Can Save U.S 1.2 Trillion

July 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The recently published McKinsey report has outlined a significant dollar value attached to green building and energy efficiency; 1.2 trillion dollars.  In addition, the investment in incorporating green building practices has also created tremendous job-creation possibilities.  This is clearly good news in such economically uncertain times.  Yet, the process isn't a simple one. The goal of creating more while using less is not only a logical one, but also one that pays better.  And yet, the … [Read more...]

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