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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)

Making Energy From Thin Air

March 4, 2008 – 8:20 am

Using wind turbines to generate your energy needs is like making energy appear from thin, moving, air. Especially if you are building a new home in a remote location.  Wind energy systems may involve a significant initial investment but once you account for the lifetime of reduced or no utility costs it’s a steal.  Though the [...]

By Kelly Mead | Posted in Alternative energy, Getting Healthy, Solar, Wind energy, green building | Comments (0)