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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:12:22 +0000: Nominate top sustainable building product Sustainable Industries has launched their 5th annual Top 10 Green Building Products 2010. They will be including the winners in their June 2010 issue and announce them during a live webinar on June 2010. I am nominating products and am a judge. So if you know of important products that are making the world a [...]
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:34:26 +0000: A good hotel that is great When friends who are visiting San Francisco ask for a recommended hotel, I usually have different categories with different criteria and it becomes a matrix of qualities that the particular friend might be most interested in. However, now it is simple. What hotel do I recommend? The Good hotel by Joie de Vivre. The Good Hotel [...]
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:06:24 +0000: V House touches lightly In Yelapa, Mexico, the Verana resort has built these interesting structures they call The V House. The V-shaped steel structure forms a truss, but also allows these guest rooms sit very lightly on the ground, which is especially important on water-front hillsides. The allow nature to be fairly undisturbed around them, creating a magical treehouse [...]
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:36:48 +0000: The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves.
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:57:45 +0000: (new) Smart Home opens The Smart Home: Green + Wired reopens today at the Museum of Science + Industry in Chicago. With the help of Midwest Living, the tech geniuses at WIRED magazine, and the amazing MSI team, the home is filled with all new sustainable products, materials and smart systems in this spectacular home that we designed. The earthy [...]
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:51:11 +0000: (new) Smart Home opens The Smart Home: Green + Wired reopens today at the Museum of Science + Industry in Chicago. With the help of Midwest Living, the tech geniuses at WIRED magazine, and the amazing MSI team, the home is filled with all new sustainable products, materials and smart systems in this spectacular home that we designed. The earthy [...]
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:17:28 +0000: Message in a bottle Eco-adventurer David de Rothschild and his crew officially unveiled the highly anticipated Plastiki ? a sail boat made in part from 12,500 water bottles ? recently at Cavallo Point in Fort Baker before heading out on their adventure across the Pacific Ocean. There was a big crowd and a lot of excitement at the event, [...]
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:09:51 +0000: Temple Grandin TED video: What the world needs now is different types of brains

Tips For Living Greener

1 Make your own cotton bags or recycled bags when you do your groceries in order to avoid the need to use plastic bags.
2 make sure that your appliances are energy efficient
3. Turn off the lights when you are not in a room
4. Unplug appliances when you do not use them
5. Use natural products to clean your House
6. Make sure that your home and car are in good condition
7. Write on both sides of a sheet of paper
8. Return your batteries to recovery centers
9. Remember to compost
10. Walk to the store instead of using your automobile
11. Make decisions for your purchases taking into account the amount of packaging
12. Consider other possibilities than air transport or offset your carbon footprint with Carbon Credits
13. Use your own Ceramic Cup to drink your coffee in the morning
14. Carpool or take Public transit
15. Use rechargeable batteries instead of regular batteries
16. The gerberas, the spathiphyllum and the English hederifolia offer good protection against the benzene and trichloroethylene
17. Use compact fluorescent light bulbs instead of incandescent bulbs
18. Install a protection in Windows to conserve energy for reducing the entry of cold air
19. Use a programmable thermostat to regulate the temperature according to the hour of the day and to use less energy
20. Make sure that your valves in your bathroom are in good condition and no dripping
21. Surround your water heater with insulating oil and thermal paper to conserve energy
22. Remember to obtain rechargeable pens rather than those disposable pens
23. Bring your meal to work in a reusable container rather than in a disposable paper pag
24 Keep a stack of scrap printouts & draft paper for taking notes
25. Consider purchasing re-usable coffee filters made of net or fabric instead of disposable paper filters
26 Make more than one purchase at the time to reduce your mileage (BUY BULK)
27. Donate the objects that you do not use anymore to a charitable cause. 28. Reuse the plastic containers that one gets when ordering out.
29. Encourage agricultural producers at the local level
30. Buy clothes made of natural fibres, such as cotton, hemp and wool and with natural dyes
31. Be aware of waste you produce
32. Try to avoid using plastic water bottles. 33. Never use plastic containers in microwave or freezer
34. Take toxic household waste, such as painting, thinner, oil lubrication and other; call at your service collection of waste to inform you should do with this kind of waste
35. Buy food wholesale to avoid unnecessary packaging
36. Have boxes or different containers for plastics, paper and non-recyclable to make recycling easier
37 Read the nutritional information before buying food
38. Use natural shampoo
39. Take quicker Showers
40. Stop the running water when brushing your teeth
41. Try planting plants which require less water to survive
42. Get solar panels
43. Create hone gardens or local community gardens
44. Encourage printers and publishers who use recycled paper
45. Encourage Barter and exchange Locally
46. Avoid using Herbicides and Pesticides
47. Try voicing your opinion to government and businesses
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