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Author: New England Cedar Homes
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Join us for a Free Seminar on Green Homes!

Saturday, January 31, 2009

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Holiday Inn Rutland / Killington

476 US Rt. 7 South Rutland, Vermont

·        Energy Efficient Home Design

·        Building a home with Structural Insulated Panels

·        Timber Framing and Post and Beam Homes

·        Geothermal and Solar Energy Systems

We have assembled a group of industry experts to present short seminar topics on energy efficient home design, materials, and construction. You’ll walk away with specific details on how to get started designing a custom green home, energy efficient Structural Insulated Panels, timber framing, geothermal and solar energy systems, and more!

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Video by Informed as part of the Secret Life series

Do you know that how many trees are cut down in the name of paper you use for the toliet, copy machine, or every day use? Please watch the video above to find out.

Informed, a not for profit, has created this video as part of the Secret Life series to educate us on what happens to the paper you use.  This is their second Secret Life video.  The first one was about the secret life of your cell phone.

For those of you who want to skip the video, here are some cold hard facts to swallow about our paper use:

If every US household replaced one roll of virgin fiber toliet paper with 100% recycled toliet paper,

• we could save 330,000 trees.
• we could save 106,000 gallons of wastewater
• we could reduce 25,000,000 pounds of green house gases

Pretty shocking.  This is not the first time I have written about recycled paper.  Last year, I wrote about different recycled toliet papers, citing the Poop report as a source who analyzes…

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Do you remember in the movie, A Charlie Brown Christmas, when Charlie Brown picks up the only real Christmas tree, albeit a scraggly one, at the tree market store? He chose this tree rather than the big shiny aluminum tree requested by Lucy for the play. When he returns with his tree, the Peanuts gang chastises him for buying the pathetic tree. At the end of the movie, the Peanuts gang fixes up the tree and Lucy exclaims, “Charlie Brown is a blockhead, but he did get a nice tree.” 

What can we learn from Charlie Brown, a renaissance environmentalist?  Forgo the fake shiny tree this year. Purchases of artificial trees have increased from 7.3 million in 2001 to 17.4 million in 2007 compared to a slight increase in the purchase of real trees.¹  These days everyone is being asked to reduce their own carbon footprint.  Why should we stop at the holiday season? Buying a living tree (preferably plantable) is the obvious choice during the holiday. If Charlie Brown was an adult today,…

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