Modular homes have been around for decades. Green homes have been around for awhile, too, and they're getting greener all of the time. When you combine those two types of homes together you get modular green homes. Enter GreenPod Intelligent Environments. … [Read more...]
We visited Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky recently and had a great time. It's a beautiful park with many outdoor activities besides having the world's largest cave system to explore. We visited the park in June of 2011 and they had just completed putting the finishing touches on the new main visitor's central building. They also have a couple of shelters where you meet the park rangers to go on your cave tour. Construction workers were putting the roof tiles on one of the shelters … [Read more...]
If you need new carpeting in your home, you might want to look into some of the great eco-friendly carpets on the market today.Better Homes & Gardens produced a nice write-up on some of their editors' picks of recycled carpet products on the market today and I thought it would be great to share what they had to say.Recycled carpet is no longer the ugly step-child of the industry. It's stylish, durable, easy to clean, comparable in price to virgin fiber carpet, and it's Earth-friendly. Shaw … [Read more...]
A couple of years ago, I attended the Go Green Expo here in Atlanta and came across a tried and true eco-friendly, outdoor rotary clothesline. It was like a breath of fresh air, for you and your clothes. Now there is a product on the homebuilding market that puts a technological twist on the simple, yet effective, clothesline. It's an indoor laundry drying cabinet made by Grimm Bros. Plastics Corp. called the BreezeDry. This is a self-contained clothes closet that is eco-friendly, … [Read more...]
Are you interested in learning all you can about building a net-zero home? Are about to embark on a home building project of your own and you've come to realize that it would be a very wise move to reduce your carbon footprint by building a home that is an energy miser.There is a very cool, virtual tool available to you that can give you a jump start in your quest to build your next home.Builder magazine, KB Home and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia combined forces to put together a net-zero home … [Read more...]
The home building industry is designing and building net zero homes in increasing numbers for customers throughout the nation. No...it is not widespread...yet, but I read about net zero homes being built more and more. That is great news because energy costs will only continue to rise.Did you know that buildings account for 40 percent of energy use in the U.S. and a similar percentage of carbon dioxide emissions? That's more than the transportation or industrial sectors. It's true. (source: … [Read more...]
PaperStone countertops are one of the few eco-friendly, sustainable paper countertops on the market today. It is similar to Richlite, ShektaStone and EcoTop in many ways.What sets PaperStone apart from competing paper countertops is the type of phenolic resin used during the manufacturing process. First and foremost, their resin is non-petroleum based. They have their own laboratory and manufacturing plant to produce a cashew nut shell liquid-based (CNSL) resin.Believe it or not, CNSL has … [Read more...]
The answer is a solid YES!Finding an eco-friendly countertop that also looks great is much easier to do than you might think. There are a few different types of "eco-friendly" countertop materials on the market:Terrazo (crushed stone and glass that is set in a cement or epoxy substrate and then buffed until smooth)Recycled Glass TileRe-purposed Stainless SteelRecycled Plastic (made from a variety of materials such as yogurt containers; amongst others)Wood (if sourced locally from a … [Read more...]
There are quite a few alternative eco-friendly flooring options on the homebuilding market these days. If you're looking for flooring that is beautiful and rich-looking, while at the same time eco-friendly, coconut and sugar palm flooring could be your answer.I've recently acquired some coconut and sugar palm flooring samples from alternacorp and I was floored (pun intended) by how they looked. This is some really beautiful and exotic-looking stuff. There are all sorts of positives to this … [Read more...]
Bamboo flooring just keeps getting better and better. But did you know that you can also purchase bamboo plywood. There are more choices of great new products on the market today and one of them is made by Smith & Fong. The trade name for their product is Plyboo. Not only do they make bamboo flooring, they also produce bamboo plywood. Smith & Fong was the first manufacturer to recieve FSC certification for their bamboo forest resource and manufacturing operations. source Working … [Read more...]
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