Grant’s Grunts » Building Green
At any rate, are we fooling ourselves? I know reducing the energy we use is a good thing, so the well-insulated house and energy star appliances are all good. I also know using the low VOC stuff is good. And the Solar Water heater makes A LOT of [...]
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My wife and I are building a “green” home (if there is such a thing) and are wondering what has worked for people in the past. These are the features we are putting in for our budget:
Active solar
passive solar design
Solar water heater
sealed crawlspace
“cool” attic (we live in NC) — meaning the attic temp. is [...]
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Kick the oil habit and make your own ethanol - Yahoo! News
Kind of interesting idea. I like the “off the grid” element to it and the fact that it allows consumers to have control. Still, not sure how well it will work and I doubt I would be an early adopter since I don’t [...]
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Ah, the ironies of the age we live in. I was just looking at a box of “Annie’s Homegrown Bunny Grahams” (boy, they are good) and noticed the following on the side of the box:
“Recycle and encourage others to do so with our Annie’s ‘Recycle’ sticker, visit www.annies.com or simply send us a self-addressed, [...]
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I don’t doubt the earth may be getting a bit warmer (30 years ago we were predicting an ice age) but that probably isn’t that big of a deal in terms of the Earth (it may suck for a time, but, it probably doesn’t mean the end of our existence as I believe we [...]
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So, I’m in Atlanta for the ApacheCon conference (which is going great) at the Westin hotel. I drove in from Raleigh. Since pretty much all of the southeast is under severe drought conditions (Atlanta being one of the worst hit), I expected to at least be made aware of it when I checked [...]
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