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wind energy on the cheap?

 
 Imagine you could go to Home Depot and for a few hundred dollars purchase an appliance that plugs in like a blender and generates a chunk of the energy your home needs, renewable and emissions-free.
Once a pioneer at Real Networks in Seattle, Chad Maglaque invented the Jelly Fish wind turbine–It’s a 36-inch-tall rooftop wind [...]

Practical Green Stuff!!

 
VIDEO: Practical Affordable Green Building & Renovation
 

Check out this video of a Brooklyn, NY based green contractor (ECO-BROOKLYN). They have a very practical approach to renovating brownstones in the Brooklyn area.
Their goal is to provide inexpensive practical green solutions to the middle class, which obviously would have the biggest footprint of usage throughout our [...]

E-Trash; Filling Our Landfills?

When I started working on my blog this week I was looking at "up-cycling" as the focus. I still plan on writing about up-cycling, but I kept coming across facts about E-trash that I found to be a huge and growing problem. With the amount of electronics, cell phones, and computers that we buy every [...]

Designer Glass From Recycled Materials?

I recently completed a large custom door project where the designer specified many selections from 3form glass company. As I started to research the product further, I found out that they use post consumer recycled products in their glass/ design products, and also exemplify what it means to be a responsible manufacturing and production facility. [...]

How Much Does Green Building Really Cost?

HOW MUCH DOES GREEN BUILDING REALLY COST?

All the time, I hear people say— "green building is still too expensive to use on my project". When you actually break it down and explain the cost and environmental savings over the life of the product based on the time they will be in the house/ office etc. [...]

Green Wall Technologies

 
photo credit: laurenatclemson’s 
When I first heard the term "green walls" I thought they were talking about paint; boy was I wrong. I had heard of green roofs, but never imagined that you could do that vertically. As with many green innovations, the europeans seem to always be on the forefront of these systems. The more [...]

Greenwashing Defined

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With the popularity and relevance of green products in today’s market, there are many companies that are getting on the "green" bandwagon. Some of these folks are being 100% accurate in their marketing campaigns; unfortunately, many are not.
Everyone’s heard the expression “whitewashing” — it’s defined as “a coordinated attempt to hide unpleasant facts, especially in a [...]

PPG Architectural Coatings

My aunt recently re-modeled her house and wanted to use products that were low VOC, or NO VOC due to her allergies and asthma. When it came to paint we did research and found that Pittsburgh paints (a division of PPG coatings) have products that fit her needs. After looking at PPG we found out [...]

New FSC® Certified Wood Door Core

Tru-Stile has again showed why they are a leader in the MDF and Wood door industry with their new announcment. TruStile is pleased to announce an improvement to their stain-grade wood door construction that will enable them to offer FSC certified wood doors by late 2009. This will make TruStile your single-source provider [...]

1.25% financing for renewable energy loans

I am currently shopping for a windmill for my 5 acre property to supplement my electrical bill. when I was searching for financing options,  I stumbled upon Santee Cooper (a electrical provider in South Carolina).
A low-interest loan from Santee Cooper (current rate–1.25%),  allows you to finance energy efficient improvements and renewable energy resource projects for [...]