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Building Green

Friday, May 16th, 2008

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

Friday, May 9th, 2008

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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Global Warming as Global Distraction

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

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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