Author: Green Architect Jeremy Bonin, AIA, LEED AP
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Join us for our next free seminar on Designing and Building a Custom Home!

PLUS, walk the Granite Ridge view lots located in the Prospect Hill Development (picture below), Georges Mills / Lake Sunapee, NH with Green Architect Jeremy Bonin and Realtor Dan O’Halloran after the seminar.

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Author: Elaine Shannon
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/11/npr-uncovers-natural-gass-…

Drilling for natural gas is a dirty business, as Enviroblog readers know.

Dusty Horwitt, Environmental Working Group’s Senior Counsel, has worked tirelessly to document the environmental depredations of a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing.

Earlier this week, National Public Radio correspondent John Burnett covered yet other possible health dangers of natural gas production. The Barnett Shale gas deposit in Northern Texas is now the site of some 1,300 gas compression stations, Burnett reported.

Eleven compressors surround the town of Dish, population around 200. Burnett says that Texas environmental regulators have detected elevated levels of benzene, a known human carcinogen, near the compressors and that constant low-frequency rumbling plagues residents and their livestock.

The story quoted people who described unexplained health problems such as migraines and ruptured ear drums and mysterious neurological illnesses in horses.

As the U.S. presses for energy…

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Author: Jean-Paul
Website: http://www.thechicecologist.com/2009/11/design-within-reach-…

I do despise bottled water, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to drink artesian spring water. Lucky I came across this beautiful and elegant water pitcher by Design Within Reach (DWR). I do own a Pur water filter pitcher, but I have never liked all that plastic (and large disposable plastic water filters). DWR [...]

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The first step in designing an energy efficient home is considering the site design as it relates to solar energy. Site design includes lot orientation, location of shade trees, site grading, landscaping, and sustainable site development.

Lot orientation: the relationship between the home and the sun, including how the house faces the sun, prevailing winds, views, driveway access, and approach.

Shade trees and shading: the type and location of shade trees and their impact on temperature, wind speed, and solar access.

Site grading: analyzed for proper water drainage and runoff away from the home, driveway, garage slab, patios, and walkways.

Landscaping: considered in the initial design stage in regard to the home’s market value and also in regard to limited shading and water control.

Sustainable site development: important to protect the site’s natural environment and vegetation with minimal disturbance, but also to maximize solar access and light, minimize erosion and runoff, and… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)

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Method has a new O Mop All Floor care kit with compostable sweeper clothes and lemon-ginger all floor cleaner, $32.99 from Amazon. Ergonomic mop, corn-based sweeping clothes, reusable microfiber mop pad.

Got a Swifter? You could probably buy their $18 compostable, corn-derived sweeper dusters and use it with it. No need to buy the whole [...]

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