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REGREEN when you ReModel

April 11, 2008 – 6:30 am

Starting in March 2008 those of us who wish to remodel, rehab, or gut either part or our entire existing homes now have a program and guidelines to help us make them as green as possible.  New construction has the LEED program to help guide and find products needed to make them green.  Now the U.S. Green Building [...]

By Kelly Mead | Posted in Designing Healthy, Do It Yourself, Getting Healthy, Helathy (green) Ideas, REGREEN, green building | Comments (0)

Make Your Landscaping Green

March 10, 2008 – 7:50 am

Green or natural landscaping ,also known as native gardening , is when you use indigenous plants in your residential or commercial landscaped gardens. These plants can include local ones such as grasses, ground-cover, wildflowers, shrubs, and trees, as well as using boulders, rocks and locally found material to border theses plantings. Making the [...]

By Kelly Mead | Posted in Composting, Designing Healthy, EPA, Gardening, Getting Healthy, Helathy (green) Ideas, green building, green landscaping | Comments (1)

Why Not Traditional Lanscaping

March 5, 2008 – 8:19 am

Some  problems with traditional lanscaping are water pollution, air pollution, noisew pollution, consumption of our natural resources, produces solid waste, harmful to health and safety, declining biodeiversity, flooding, and to top it off it’s labor and cost intensive.
Homeowners over-apply pesticides and fertilizers often more than that of farmers. Additionaly people dump excess pesticides on the ground, [...]

By Kelly Mead | Posted in Designing Healthy, Getting Healthy, Helathy (green) Ideas, farming, green landscaping | Comments (0)

Changings Windows Offers Great Benefits

February 13, 2008 – 11:05 pm

In most old homes windows are one of the largest sources of heating during the winter do to their low insulating ability combined with high air leakage.  During the summer they are also a major source of additional unwanted heat. This results in windows being typically net energy loser, that can be responsible for 25% [...]

By Kelly Mead | Posted in Energy Efficiency, Heating, Insulation, Solar-passive, cooling, windows | Comments (0)