Author: Green Architect Jeremy Bonin, AIA, LEED AP
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The new energy efficient home will be just shy of 2500 square feet, with 1530 square feet on the first floor and 950 square feet on the second floor. With three bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths, the home will have plenty of room for visiting children and grandchildren. The site plan shows the lakefront and proposed location of the home.

One of our clients’ requirements was to have a first floor Master Bedroom with view of the lake. Planning to do a lot of entertaining, they also desired a large screened porch for enjoying evenings on the lake with protection from insects. Adding a one-car garage at an angle to the house allows for an extended dining area and nicely houses a walk-in pantry and mudroom / laundry. We’re talking about a solar hot water system and possible solar photovoltaic system. All materials…

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Author: Olga Naidenko
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Electronic recycling facility workers face 6-33 times higher exposure to toxic flame retardants PBDEs than the general American population, reported scientists from the University of Texas in an article now in press in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Where does flame retardant dust come from?
PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers, if you must know) are included in plastic computer parts during manufacturing. Over the lifetime of a product, PBDEs are slowly released - with tiny dust particles that chip off the surface of computer equipment. At home and in the office we may be continuously inhaling small quantities of PBDEs which tend to linger in the body and accumulate to higher levels after long term exposure. But the real toxic hit happens during the recycling process. When computer equipment is completely disassembled to extract valuable metal components, a large portion of the PBDEs end up in the air that workers breathe.

Flame retardants pose an…

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Author: Jean-Paul
Website: http://www.thechicecologist.com/2009/04/green-business-finde…

A company called 3rdWhale just made it much easier to find those green businesses in and around your city, or wherever you happen to be. What’s really cool is their new app for the iPhone. It gives you directions, reviews and more about the eco-friendly, fair-trade and green stores and service providers near your location.
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Author: easy eco blog
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Looking for a mount for that new flat panel TV set? OmniMount has a new Omnilite series of flat panel mount.  Both the product and the packaging are made from recycled materials.  It has condensed packaging and streamlined hardware kits.  Manuals and installation templates for each product will be printed on the inside of the [...]

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Author: Green Talk
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Corn Gluten Pellets.

For three years I have used different form of corn gluten with different success rates to kick the butt of crabgrass.  Why corn gluten? Corn gluten is a more natural product to get rid of my crabgrass. I am anti-pesticide and come August,  my lawn looks more like a bad haircut rather than a field of dreams. Crabgrass is down right ugly.

Three years to the day started my odyssey with corn gluten. How did it all begin? After several conversations with Dr. Nick Christians, the developer of this natural pre-emergence weed control, I was ready to break out my spreader and give corn gluten a whirl.  Armed with an immense amount of information about corn gluten, I was like the Highlander, ready to chop off the heads of my crabgrass.  At the end of the day, “there only can be one”,  as the Highlander would say.  That would be me, not the crabgrass.

Worse comes to worse, I knew that the corn gluten was a great fertilizer so I would be attempting to chop off…

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