Stephen Anderton’s book “Urban Sanctuaries, Creating Peaceful Havens for the City Gardener” is a great visual resource for how to turn small spaces into big places of rejuvenation. Drawing from eastern aesthetics with a hint of European design, the book is full of images of really lovingly built gardens. They are not hyper manicured and […]
Here is an interesting list of what energy the US consumes and the % consumed for each. Notice over 90% is not renewable. Source: no idea! 🙂
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The Book “Green Roof Construction and Maintenance” by Kelly Luckett is a thorough overview of green roof installation, maintenance and return on investment. The book is published by McGraw Hill, a publisher of many good green building books. The book is on the dry academic side. There aren’t any cutesy pictures or graphics. In fact
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One of the many differences between renovating a Brooklyn brownstone the old fashioned way and doing a green renovation is the difference in cycles. A normal brownstone renovation is very similar to all post-industrial activity: MAN OVER NATURE. And ever since the “triumph of science” we have been able to overpower the earths natural cycles
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