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Make a Difference in NOLA

March 28, 2008 – 10:55 am

We are happy to announce that Make It Right9 in NOLA (New Orleans, LA) has given us our own home to promote. Once you follow the link go down the list till you see our home, we we’re second to last at the time of this post. We also welcome anyone who wishes to use [...]

By Kelly Mead | Posted in Charities, Community Issues, Editorial, Helathy (green) Ideas, In The News, Make It Right 9, Site News, Websites, 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)

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)

Let the Earth Keep You Comfy

February 29, 2008 – 7:55 am

What better way to go off grid and be cozy then to let the Earth’s own geothermal work for you.
Geothermal, GeoExchange, earth-coupled, ground-source, or water-source heat pumps are all use the constant temperature of the earth as the exchange medium instead of the outside air temperature.  By doing that this system has a much higher [...]

By Kelly Mead | Posted in Energy Efficiency, Geothermal, Heating, cooling, green building, heat pumps | Comments (1)