Articles tagged “Gray Water”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Looking for a Gray Water System? Check Out Ed Begley Jr.'s Choice By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Home & Garden Sep 20 2009 Water conservation starts with using to the fullest whatever water we access. A gray water recycling system achieves just that. Installing one in your home can seem complicated, but there are companies that specialize in helping you set up a system that suits your needs. + READ MORE

25 Things You Might Not Know About Water By Care2.com IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 26 2009 If you're on Facebook, you and your friends may have posted notes with 25 facts about themselves. We wanted to share with you 25 things we think are really interesting about water. + READ MORE

Planning a Green Building Project? Beware of Lawyers By David DeFranza IN Home & Garden May 29 2009 Building green is not always as simple as nailing down some bamboo flooring and plugging in a solar panel. Indeed, putting hammer-to-nail is often the simplest, albeit most physical, part of the project. From vetting potential contractors to choosing the right materials, building green requires lots of knowledge, in-depth research, and many tough decisions. Now, there is another potential obstacle green builders must contend with: The law. + READ MORE

Shower with a Bucket Buddy? By Josh Peterson IN Fashion & Beauty May 22 2009 You don't have to shower alone, all wet and lathery and lonesome. You should have some company in that shower. By company, I mean the inanimate object known as a bucket. That?s right, I've just told you in far too complicated and mixed-up terms that you should shower in the company of a bucket that you should also consider a buddy. + READ MORE

Divert, Preserve and Reserve with a Water Catchment System By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden May 18 2009 The simplest and most common form of rainwater catchment is the rain barrel. Most domestic rain barrels are attached to the downspout. When it rains, water dribbles down your shingles and into your gutters. From there, it goes down the drainpipe and into the barrel. Other forms of water catchment include cisterns, artificial ponds and rain gardens. + READ MORE

9 Ways to Save Water in the Garden By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Apr 9 2009 Nothing beats homegrown eats. Foods grown in your own backyard tends to be tastier. Is it because your own hands and sweat went into growing this food or is it because the plant was grown, lovingly and locally, without dubious chemicals? Both could be true. I don't know. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Delawning By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Mar 18 2009 The single most irrigated crop in the United States is lawn. Yep, 40 million acres of lawn for which Americans collectively spend about $40 billion annually on seed, sod and chemicals. And then there's all that water. According to the EPA, nearly a third of all residential water use in the US goes toward what is euphemistically known as "landscaping." + READ MORE

The Shower and the Faucet By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 13 2009 The Shower: 11.6 percent gallon per person. 16.8% of indoor water use. The Faucet: 10.9 gallons a day per person. 15.7 percent of home energy use. + READ MORE

The Toilet and the Clothes Washer By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 13 2009 The Toilet: 18.5 gallons a day per person. 26.7 percent of indoor water use. The Clothes Washer: 15 gallons a day per person. 21.7 percent of indoor water use. + READ MORE

Set Your Green Home Priorities for Water Conservation By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 13 2009 The hardest part about going green is figuring out where to start. Should you buy a hybrid or upgrade your insulation? There are so many different ecological concerns that you can easily feel overwhelmed. Don't panic. Nobody is perfect. You can't have zero ecological impact. That's impossible. What is possible, however, is that you lessen your footprint and find a way to live a sustainable lifestyle. + READ MORE

Should You Buy a Greenhouse? By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 7 2009 The greenhouse effect gets a bad rap in environmental circles, but the effect is not all bad, especially when the effect takes place in a greenhouse. We may despise the infamous effect and what it is doing to our climate, but we can also use the effect to help reduce itself. Building a greenhouse is a green way to grow food in a local and pesticide-free way. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Grey Water By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Jan 6 2009 As unappetizing as it may sound, grey water is useful stuff. OasisDesign.net defines it as such: "Any water that has been used in the home, except water from toilets, is called grey water. Dish, shower, sink, and laundry water comprise 50-80% of residential 'waste' water. This may be reused for other purposes, especially landscape irrigation." The benefits of grey water recycling include. + READ MORE

3 Green Carwash Ideas By Megan Cohen IN Tech & Transport Dec 1 2008 Whether you're driving a hybrid or a traditional car, every once in a while you're going to need to wipe it down, even in the winter. After all, nothing makes it more appealing to carpool with you than a vehicle that's seriously covered in grime, detritus, and ample evidence of past weather-related horrors and misfortune, right? + READ MORE

Building an Efficient Bathroom (Video) By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Nov 19 2008 I'm sitting on our future dual-flush toilet by Caroma, one of the most water efficient models on the market. Overall, they average less than one gallon per flush. In green building it's extremely important that we start with envelope of structure and make it as tight as possible. + READ MORE

Try These Eco Friendly Grass Varieties for a Greener Lawn By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Oct 9 2008 I don't know why grass is the proper plant for yards. Perhaps it is because grass is verdant-looking and easy-to-manage. I suppose a wheat yard might look messy and a yard composed of nothing but lambsquarter would be positively nightmarish. + READ MORE

Recycle Your Shower with Gray Water Recycling System By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 4 2008 There have been great inventions throughout the course of human history: The wheel, the printing press, the ball, the automobile, the internet. Each one of these inventions has changed the course of human civilization and the way we live. + READ MORE

Jeremy Levine Discusses Grey Water By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 16 2008 The water that flows from a typical household faucet often travel thousands of miles from its original source, having first been scrubbed clean, chlorinated, and fluoridated, before it arrives at your house. This is a staggering achievement, yet we hardly give it a second thought. The water that washes our sweaty faces and dirty hands is filled with the kind of biological nutrients that many plants crave. + READ MORE

Toilet Water Colors : Yellow, Brown, and Gray By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jul 1 2008 The dual-flush toilet has become a big hit in Wa$ted, and for good reason.You can empty your used dish water and bath water into the bucket and then when your toilet needs flushing, simply pour that water into your toilet bowl to flush down the evidence. + READ MORE

Get Smarter In The Bathroom By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 18 2008 The great green domiciles on World?s Greenest Homes feature the most beautiful, eco-friendly bathrooms on the planet. With a couple of small steps, you can give your own shower-and-sink room a quick green upgrade. All it takes is a few fixtures, a little elbow grease, a couple of easy habits, and some basic planet-conscious planning. + READ MORE

Minimize the Water You Use on Your Lawn By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden May 5 2008 If having a lush, green lawn fits in your vision of a green lifestyle, but you don't want to needlessly bankrupt your local water supply (and run up your water bill), there are some strategies you can use to keep your grass green and reduce your water use. + READ MORE