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Earth Day, Green Infrastructure, and Global Awareness

March 17, 2010

Welcome Guest Poster,  J. Garver – “Writer of all things left and progressively green.” Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.  Are you wearing the green?  Well, here is some green to think about.
Spring 2010 is approaching and there’s a lot of buzz around topics like the economy, taxation, global poverty, restoration in Haiti/Chile, and [...]

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NoMix Toilets Could Power Your House and Feed Your Plants

March 15, 2010

Roediger NoMix toilet (urine diversion flush toilet).
Move over dual flushing toilets.  Meet the NoMix toilet, which separates your number 1 from your number 2.  Okay, Anna.  What’s the trick here?  Who cares if a toilet can separates my bodily movements.
Hear me out. There is a method to my madness.   What is a the point of a No Mix [...]

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USGBC’s Announces Top 10 Green Building Legislation

February 26, 2010

You know why Abe is smiling? Because America has a bright future ahead of it.  We will get out of our economic rut and green building is the answer. Green building will create jobs and spur the economy to recover.  Right now  Congress has taken the lead and there are several green building bills pending. [...]

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Garage Door Insulation Helps to Reduce Winter and Summer Energy Bills

February 16, 2010

Photo courtesy of Falcon Foam.
How many of you use your garage as a work area? Or how many feel like their bedroom above the garage is cold despite adequate insulation? Are your garage doors insulated?  I did not think.
My prior house had beautiful custom wood doors and no insulation in the walls.  It was colder [...]

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Green Speed Links for November 29, 2009

November 30, 2009

Photo by Fernando de Sousa.
Usually my Green Speed Links for the week are an eclectic group of green news. For some reason,  green building news caught my eye this week.  For those of you who are not as enamored with green building as I am, I  sprinkled the links with other interesting green news.  Check [...]

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RainXchange: Rainwater Harvesting with a Unique Water Feature Twist

September 23, 2009

I had the pleasure of  podcasting with Dave Kelly, Vice President of  Product Developement at Aquascape, Inc., the maker of the RainXchange, explaining the virtues of the Company’s residential and commercial rain harvesting system.  To hear the podcast, click the link below.
I have been having a ongoing love affair with  rainwater harvesting systems ever since I learned about [...]

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Make a New Year’s Resolution to give your HVAC a Tune-Up

January 12, 2009

Every year, we make New Year’s  Resolutions to lose weight, get more sleep, and eat healthier.  However, we never seem to make those resolutions about the structural components of our house.  Do you ever hear, “I vow to weather-strip my house, give my HVAC a yearly checkup, or check for leaks in my house?”  Ur, [...]

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“You’ve Got Green Mail” January 4, 2008 Round-up

January 5, 2009

Photo by permission of Shira Gal

2009 is going to be an amazing green year. My bones can feel it and they are never wrong.  In the green mail box this week is an eclectic mix of topics ranging from the old stand-by of green building articles, kiddies’ green TV to greening your business’ IT (information [...]

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Vote For Green Talk for GREEN LOG Home Lifestyle Awards

April 9, 2008

Green Talk has been nominated by me as a blog making a difference to help people live a greener lifestyle. As many of you know, green building is my passion. For two years, I ate, slept, and talked about building products as I built my house. Who better to report about products than someone [...]

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