OK, so you’ve built a nice green kitchen. You’ve got your recycled wood cabinets, your Energy Star appliances, and your cork floor. You’ve invited some friends over for organic pasta. So just like Grandma used to cook pasta you fill a large pot full of water, right? WRONG! Grandma also smoked two packs of cigarettes […]
Here is a cool app courtesy of NaturalHomes.org. It shows all the natural homes in the world (at least the ones they know of, which is probably one tenth the real number). The map at first only shows the US, but we’ll forgive them their nationalism in light of our recent and proud presidential election.
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I just posted the straw bale web site as “web site of the week”, but that poses a problem because I find more than one good web site a week. So this one is web site of the day: NaturalHomes.org Great site. Check it out. ‘Nuf said!
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Hemp is touted as a wonder plant that cures all and builds all. Apparently you can make pretty much anything from it: soap, cars bodies, walls, glue, boats, you name it. Not that I would know since hemp is the forbidden plant cursed to spend it’s life with pot heads (a very dreary existence believe
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You might not have heard of the Ontario Straw Bale Building Coalition, in fact you may not even realize you needed to know about them. But the truth is that the world is a better place with them. Knowing such an organization is out there protecting straw bales world wide should give you a warm
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Here are some example of the green cabinets we are considering for the Brooklyn show house. They are made by Nexis 3 from reclaimed wood and without any VOC adhesives. The style is modern. This particular wood might not be the wood we use for our cabinets since it depends on the wood available at
I have been looking for some time for a good green cabinet maker to do our kitchens and storage areas. It is a hard thing to find. Cabinet makers are not cheap to start with but for some misguided reason green cabinet makers are even more expensive. They are a niche market in a niche
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I found this great survey on toilets. Veritec, a testing company, tested 700 toilets for flush power, water savings, bowl size, flapper size etc. Now this might not excite most people but when you are looking for the most water efficient toilet that also actually flushes everything down this study is amazing. 13th-edition-full-toilet-veritec-report It shows
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We wanted some siding for a wall we built. So we used some 100 year old joists. We took the joists and cut them into long strips. Then we sealed them on both sides so they don’t warp. Then we put them onto strips that we had attached to the wall. This way there is
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