Articles related to "Green Home"



Green Home Construction or Remodel
Being eco-friendly is not just about buying products labeled "green" or "organic." It is often as simple as buying products grown or manufactured in your community.
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Definition of a Green Home!
A description of the Green Home and why it is important to consider going Green when you build. Lists several of the hazardous materials in a conventional home when deciding to build, remodel or rennovate.
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Green Buildings Take Over the Market
Technology advancements allowed builders to design and construct energy efficient buildings at an affordable price. However, not all buildings marketed as green are such.
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A TIME FOR REFLECTION
Linda needs your help. Green Home is beginning to loose its impetus. Tell her what you want to see here and let her make over the site to suit you better.
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Building a Green Home with Sustainable Materials
It takes sustainable building materials to build a green home. It will cost more. But it's a good investment in home equity, and if done right, will lower utility bills.
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Cradle to Cradle Designed Home Goods
Really reduce, recycle, and reuse by buying only products that are cradle to cradle certified, from gDiapers to the compostable Aeron chair.
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Create a Greener Home Office
Green doesn't stop at the kitchen sink or the garage door. These earth friendly suggestions for your home office will save you money while saving the planet.
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DREAMING OF A GREEN CHRISTMAS - Traffic & Tantrums
In the second part of Dreaming of a Green Christmas, Linda looks at traffic jams, last minute shopping, advertising and the fights over presents and shows how these can be avoided.
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Easy Spring DIY Decorating Tips
If you are looking forward to discarding your heavy winter clothing for something lighter, you're also probably looking for easy ways to lighten and freshen up your home.
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Five Easy Ways to Green Your Home
What are some ways you can help the environment by making small changes in your home? Read more ... because being green also means saving green (money!).
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Green Home Building Takes Off
The green building movement is gathering momentum and both general contractors and remodeling contractors are educating themselves on materials and ENERGY STAR appliances
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Green Home Construction: A New Alternative
So you've decided to jump on the "going green" bandwagon. Congratulations. You've made the right decision because building green homes is extremely important.
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Greener Home Construction
Steps are being taken to provide consumers of new homes that use more sustainable and renewable energy sources.
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LEADERSHIP QUALITIES
What do you want in the person who leads your nation? A friend of big business, popularity with media, charisma...or someone who cares deeply about the environment and will not risk the health of the planet for short-term personal gain.
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LESS WOOD - MORE WOODS
Do you love trees and forests? Let Linda show you practical ways of ensuring that we keep our trees with her guide on buying wooden items.
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Low-Cost Tips for an Energy Efficient Green Home
Making your home more energy efficient doesn't have to be expensive. There are a number of quick, inexpensive changes that you can make to green up and save money.
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MASS PRODUCTION BLUES
Although mass production has noticeable benefits, there are pitfalls too. Let Linda show you what to look out for.
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Recycling Cardboard Can Save You Money
Of all the crafting materials available, cardboard is probably the most undervalued. But think of it as a cheap (even free) resource and you'll soon change your mind.
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Recycling Glass Can Save You Money
Glass containers of all kinds can be recycled, repurposed and reused in stylish and elegant ways if you just resuscitate that little old imagination gene.
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The Green Home Makeover, Part 1
A do and don't guide for what to keep in a green home's pantry or cupboard.
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UP IN SMOKE
Are waste-to-energy incinerators the answer to problems of waste. Linda believes that they are not. Find out why in this interesting environmental article, one of the Green Home series.
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What is Your Carbon Footprint?
A Carbon Footprint is anything humans do during the course of everyday life that produces carbon dioxide and other gases that contribute to the Greenhouse Effect.
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How to Build Green Buildings
The site, the design, the construction of a building, together with its energy and water efficiency make it a green home.
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Detail in Contemporary Kitchen Design
Welcome a new season with spring remodeling plans for the kitchen.
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Green Houses: The New Way to Build
Whether your family is growing or downsizing, one of the biggest steps personally, financially and ecologically is purchasing a new home. I’m in the growing stage, as is my sister. We’ve recently been discussing the best way to go when getting a new home. My dream includes solar power, composting toilets, point of use water heaters and passively heated homes with stylish layouts and ecologically harvested wood. I had a whole list of “Green Features” that I enthusiastically enumerated for my sister. But darn her and her common sense! She brought up a good point…there is no perfect ecological home.
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A Beginners Guide to Going Green
Going "Green" is the latest trend taking root across the globe. There are many easy ways to get involved, support the environment, and save some money in the process!
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Book Review of Green for Life by Gillian Deacon
From buying organic cotton to giving away eco-friendly party favours, Green for Life will inspire people to find ways to minimize their impact on the environment.
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Building an Eco Friendly Home
From the roof to the heating to the floors, what eco friendly materials and features will make your home truly a green home and save you money as well as the environment.
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CAMPAIGN: CLICK CAMPAIGNING
One of the GREEN HOME CAMPAIGN CLUB articles. Are you tired of people complaining about you sitting around all day 'playing' on the computer. Well, with a few clicks you can convince politicians to combat global warming, save valuable rainforests, protect tigers and protest against whaling. As your critic how much he/she has done to protect the planet in the last hour.
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CLIMATE DISASTER
In a time of freak climates and world-wide problems why are our politicians pretending that if they ignore the problem of climate change it will go away?
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De-Stress with Feng Shui
Feng Shui can help you locate areas that are adding to your stress in your life. You can identify these areas and correct them using simple Feng Shui principles.
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DREAMING OF A GREEN CHRISTMAS - Follies & Fripperies
Christmas is coming. Happy Christmas to everyone. This is the first of a series of Christmas articles in which Linda shows us how to have a Merry Christmas which does not cost the Earth.
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DREAMING OF A GREEN CHRISTMAS - Lights & Largesse
Another in the DREAMING OF A GREEN CHRISTMAS series. This time Linda discusses lighting and catering.
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Easy, Economical Recycling Ideas for Your Home
Adopt a green project. Work towards a green home with these simple tips on recycling waste. Here's how you can recycle plastic, waste paper, and even recycle pcs.
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Green Architecture
Green architecture means designing buildings that have the least environmental impact possible.
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Green Bathroom Remodel Tips
It's possible to do a clean, green bathroom remodel with earth-friendly choices like low flow showers, dual flush toilets, sustainable & VOC free construction materials.
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How to Celebrate Earth Day
With the World observing Earth Day on April 22nd become an active member of the Green Brigade by making simple changes around the house.
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How to Green Any Home on a Budget
Home renovators are increasingly 'going green' to protect the planet and also to save green - money, that is. Here are three budget savvy Green Renovating suggestions.
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How to Make a Pussy Willow Wreath
For a fabulous decoration for your front door this spring, you can't do much better than to use pussy willows as a decorative feature in plain twig wreath.
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Review of Gorgeously Green
Gorgeously Green simplifies living in an environmentally friendly way.
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Save the Environment With 10 Spring Resolutions
Want 10 green-home tips for this Spring? Take the challenge and start this season of rejuvenation by using green energy, green products, a composting toilet and more.
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SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN
We have decent laws about child labour. Some poor third world countries do not have that luxury. Make sure that your lifestyle is not promoting the use of abusive child labour.
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What's New in the Green World
New Websites and programs to help people lead greener lives.
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A Healthy Bedroom
Lack of sleep can be caused by unseen allergens and toxins in the bedroom. This article explains how to create an eco-friendly space that will ensure a good night's rest
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Creating and Building Living Homes
Learn how to use recycled building materials inside, and products from the natural earth outside to design and build a living home.
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Effective Homemade Non-Toxic Air Fresheners
Air fresheners mask smells, coat nasal passages diminishing the sense of smell, or reduce your sense of smell with nerve-deadening agents. Here are safe alternatives.
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Go Green in Your Home
Going green is good for your family. Simplifying the products you use in your home can help keep your family safe, save you money, and save the planet.
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How to Install a Power Attic Vent
Power attic vents are active; turbine (whirlybird) and ridge vents, passive. Temperature triggers power vent operation; air flow/negative pressure operate passive vents.
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Living Buildings Challenge Green Status Quo
While LEED and green buildings are ways to build more sustainably, living buildings move beyond current standards to enhance and restore urban environments.
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Make Your Own Herbal Disinfectant
Go green by making a safe antibacterial cleaner. Homemade, organic cleansers are effective, healthy, and good for the environment.
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