Articles tagged “Green Home”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Kitchen Design: David Gottfried's LEED Home Renovation By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Nov 19 2008 Welcome to our new green kitchen. It doesn't look it yet, but we're going to have a lot of great new energy-efficient appliances and all sorts of green features. + READ MORE

Home Renovation: David Gottfried on Green Framing (Video) By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Nov 19 2008 For the framing, we used FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) wood throughout the house, and it's marked as such so we know it comes from forests that use highly sustainable practices. We also used FSC plywood in the attic for storage areas up above. + READ MORE

Replace Risky Hot Dogs with Grass-Fed Franks By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Nov 18 2008 What do sauerkraut, American baseball, street vendors, and Frankfort, Germany, have in common? All of these words are commonly associated with one of my favorite childhood foods—hot dogs. Here's the good news—there are healthy and tasty meat-filled alternatives to traditional hot dogs. Yes, I said it. You do not have to give up the carnivore craving. Just eat your meat the healthy and green way: grass-fed. + READ MORE

Living Off Grid: Cook Pasta without Pre-Heating or Pre-Boiling By Trevor Reichman IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 18 2008 Since I live more than 100 miles from a gas line, I have to use a propane stove for my cooking. The gas comes from a tank on-site, instead of a pipe underground. Whenever it runs out, I have to make a trip into town to refill it. Even though I only have to refill it once every two months, it is still an incentive to conserve my propane as much as possible. + READ MORE

Renovation Nation's Steve Thomas at Greenbuild By Team Planet Green IN Renovation Nation Nov 18 2008 On Renovation Nation, Steve Thomas shows everyday homeowners how to implement green building solutions into their renovation and remodeling projects. Though Steve makes it look easy, bringing these eco-friendly solutions to the mainstream consumer is not a simple task.... + READ MORE

David Gottfried: Green Renovation and Historic Choices (Video) By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Nov 17 2008 When you remodel an old home, and certainly a 1915 craftsman, and you embrace green and you want LEED Platinum like us, there's a lot of decisions to be made. What do you save? Do you keep the old beautiful wood? I would say absolutely. But you have issues of insulation, so you have to figure out how you blow it in while you keep the old wood and also how to install new windows. + READ MORE

David Gottfried's Home Renovation: Building an Office Lifepod (Video) By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Nov 17 2008 Welcome to my new office—the Gottfried Lifepod. This was a joint venture between Envision Solar and my team. We greatly improved the base steel structure with eight solar panels on the roof and figured out how to make it into a super comfortable home office. + READ MORE

Homeowners, Unite to Buy Cheaper Solar Power! By Mat McDermott IN Home & Garden Nov 17 2008 Though simply signing up for a green energy program, if your electric supplier has one, is probably the most simple and the least expensive way to make the switch to using renewable energy, there are virtues to owning your own solar power system. And what do you do if you own your home and don't have a green power program in your area? + READ MORE

David Gottfried Home Renovation: A Family Affair (Video) By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Nov 17 2008 This is part of a series of video blog posts about green architecture and construction leading up to Greenbuild, the U.S. Green Building Council's annual conference. This post was written by Sara Gottfried, David's wife. + READ MORE

Planet Green Sponsors Greenbuild, Renovation Nation's Steve Thomas to Attend By Brian Merchant IN Work & Connect Nov 17 2008 If you're a green-minded architecture aficionado, there's probably nowhere you'd rather be than the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. Put on by the US Green Building Council, a non-profit comprised of over 15,000 (!) pro-green building organizations, the Expo is the largest sustainable building conference in the world. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Cool Home By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Nov 17 2008 Now this is a cool home, but it's not what I'm getting at. Rather, as the Sierra Club explains: "We don't have to wait for government to do something about climate change. Each and every one of us can get started today. By making our homes more efficient and conserving energy, we can cut emissions from power plants and do our part to head off global warming." + READ MORE

How to Build a Scoop from a Two-Liter Bottle By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Nov 17 2008 This technique is a great way to reuse plastic bottles and repurpose them into something that can be reused a great deal, and in the event that the scoop breaks, you can just recycle it with your other plastic. + READ MORE

How to Install a Foam Insulating Gasket By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Nov 14 2008 Heating and cooling is the largest source of energy consumption in the American household. Installing foam insulating gaskets in all our electrical outlets is a small, useful and oft-overlooked step towards home energy efficiency. + READ MORE

Greenovate Episode: Juliette O. By Team Planet Green IN Greenovate Nov 14 2008 Juliette & Alexander Ouvaroff always dreamed of owning a home on the historic canals in Venice, California. They've purchased the ugliest one on the block - a 900 square feet, 2 bedroom 1 bath craftsman - and they've decided... + READ MORE

Greenovate Episode: Julie S. By Team Planet Green IN Greenovate Nov 14 2008 Julie Solomon is a single women who bought a hundred year old home in the city of Silver Lake California. She has a sizable budget but a tight schedule to green her home. Further reading on greening your home:... + READ MORE

World's Greenest Homes Episode: Happy House By Team Planet Green IN Worlds Greenest Homes Episodes Nov 13 2008 This award-winning, 4,000-square foot energy efficient home in Houston, Texas has loads of personality and plenty of green features, too. Beyond the solar panels, recycled denim insulation, and heat resistant extra-thick concrete walls, the home features sprawling multi-purpose living... + READ MORE

Create Your Own Spa at Home for Pennies! By Lynda Fassa IN Fashion & Beauty Nov 13 2008 You've tucked away your sandals and gotten out your favorite trusty scarf, at once chic and warm, but you could still use a bit of sprucing up—a nice new something to enter the season all aglow. Oh, a trip to the spa—that's it! Forget your shrinking wallet, you've probably got everything you need to be ab-fab right now, at home. + READ MORE

Jodi Says: My Daughters Have Been Salvaging Homes Since They Were Kids! By Jodi Murphy IN Wrecklamation Nov 13 2008 My daughters have worked with me since, well pretty much their entire lives. Indentured servitude is such a harsh word...I prefer, well, indentured servitude pretty much sums it up. But man oh man, was it great training for them.... + READ MORE

How to Fix a Loose Window Pane By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Nov 13 2008 Loose window panes rattle in the wind because the glass on the bottom of the pane is thicker than the glass at the top. That "rattle room" can let cold air in and hot air out. This will decrease your home's energy-efficiency. Luckily, this can be dealt with inexpensively and easily. + READ MORE

Get Smoother Skin—Naturally By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Nov 13 2008 So you have rough skin. Sometimes it gets worse with the dry air or the heat. Sometimes it remains no matter what you treat it with. It can effect your entire body, but especially your fingers, elbows, and knees. Spending money on intense lotions is bad enough, but expending the resources involved in industries and products like these isn't any good for the environment, either. + READ MORE