Articles tagged “Green Home”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Green Realty and Reality By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 11 2008 The ongoing mortgage crisis has sent shockwaves across America and much of the world. According to the good folks at Renovation Nation, "Eco-friendly homes full of features like programmable thermostats, skylights, VOC-free painted walls, and other green details are actually selling for up to 25% more than non-green neighborhood comps." + READ MORE

Is The Big Apple Going Green? By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 11 2008 New Yorkers may produce an inordinate amount of waste, but we do have incredibly low per-capita gasoline consumption. Before we pat ourselves on the back, though, we should remember that convenience is probably the main factor in our choice to use public transportation. + READ MORE

Green Natives Sighted in the Concrete Jungle By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 11 2008 Living in not-so-city-like Studio City, Ed and Rachelle have plenty of eco-minded neighbors like Bill Nye and Jay Leno. In contrast, when you reside in the middle of a big city, you may not have green neighbors with whom to share eco-tips or even know your neighbors' names, for that matter. Life in the city can seem positively un-green. + READ MORE

Meet an Expert Dad: Kevin Schwartz, Founder of BabyGanics Natural Cleaners By Lynda Fassa IN Home & Garden Jun 10 2008 Dad of of 21-month-old Tyler, Kevin Schwartz has a cool business making what I believe is some of the best-working and safe-enough-to-drink household cleaners with his line Babyganics. + READ MORE

Free Furniture From The Landfill! By Leslie Billera IN Home & Garden Jun 9 2008 Not only is it fun to find something free to use in your home (and in the case of Evette and Tiffany, competitive!), it's one of the most eco-sensitive things you can do. Salvaged furniture requires zero new resources, except for paint and varnish if you decide to refurbish, all of which you can find in eco-friendly forms. + READ MORE

Local, Seasonal, Spago By Erin Hollingsworth IN Food & Health Jun 9 2008 A chef from Wolfgang Puck's flagship restaurant and perennial celebrity hotspot, Spago, plays an active role sometimes on Alter Eco. He and his wife, also a chef, decide to add a composting system to their home, making use of their many food scraps as they often cook at home when not cooking at the restaurant. + READ MORE

Advanced Framing By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jun 9 2008 On Renovation Nation, many citizen renovators are rethinking the ways of the wall. Advanced framing can be more labor intensive, and if your home has lots of windows and doors, it might require the same amount of lumber as conventional framing. + READ MORE

How Environmentally Friendly Homes Are Also Economically Friendly By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 7 2008 There's a rumor going around that needs to be uprooted: ECO-friendly homes cost more money. This is just absolutely false. Sure, purchasing Leonardo DiCaprio's pad that was featured on Hollywood Green would set you back some cash, but there are many ways in which an eco-friendly home can actually save you money. + READ MORE

An All Green Abode By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 7 2008 Talented green architects teamed with green builders to construct the LEED home both to educate the public and to use the proceeds from its sale to build other homes like it. If you're thinking of building your own home, here are some examples of ways to create an eco-friendly home. + READ MORE

Green is User Friendly By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 7 2008 When the Gregorio family decided to green their home, they began with two major breakthroughs. First, they owned up to their beginner status regarding all things green. More importantly, the family recognized that learning green is easy and accessible to all. + READ MORE

Taxi Cabs are Yellow, but not Green By Team Planet Green IN Tech & Transport Jun 7 2008 80% of New York City residents do not own personal vehicles. No other city in the USA even comes close to being this green when it comes to car-free living. But even a non-car owner living in NYC can still make bad transportation choices as demonstrated in Wa$ted. + READ MORE

Use Less Water in Your Garden By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jun 6 2008 Having a garden can be a fun, rewarding, green experience, especially in the summer, when everything blooms and all your hard work brings beauty (and maybe even some food). If you want it to stay green, though, almost every garden is going to require some watering, but it doesn't have to send your water meter spinning out of control and your water bill skyrocketing. + READ MORE

Today on TreeHugger By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 6 2008 Freshen up your abode with J.R. Watkins' new line of natural home products. Cultivate a healthy (Reel Mower) addiction like Mike has. Tell us; are you a packrat or minimalist? All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Find Durable, Healthy Used and Antique Furniture By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jun 6 2008 Buying second-hand, thrift, antique, and otherwise used furniture is a great way to go green in your home. Picking up something that's new to you, but doesn't require any more new materials to be used, is one of the best ways to green your home's interior. follow these tips to help determine the durability and health of your potential new piece. + READ MORE

An Etymology of Green By Erin Hollingsworth IN Work & Connect Jun 6 2008 There was probably a time when green immediately invoked the idea "of the color green," but watch one episode of Alter Eco or simply pay attention to people talking around you and realize that time is definitely not now. + READ MORE

Sealing Your Thermal Envelope By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jun 6 2008 On Renovation Nation, much ado has been made about creating a thermal envelope. From Philadelphia to Seattle, eco-friendly home renovators have been reconstructing their homes with energy efficiency in mind. + READ MORE

Bring Life To The Table By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 6 2008 One of the dwellings on World's Greenest Homes is amazingly built right around a live, growing tree. Here are some tips on how to make these elegant focal points work, plus the facts on why they're smart for the planet, and how they improve the very air you breathe. + READ MORE

LEED Accredited Professionals By Natalie Cook IN Home & Garden Jun 6 2008 Leadership for Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) was formally developed by the U.S. Green Building Council in 1998. The organization not only created a standard for green building development, but also for housing and real estate professionals. + READ MORE

Save Money?and Your Health?by Going Green By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 5 2008 David Bach is the author of Go Green, Live Rich and a guest contributor to Planet Green.Yet for $20, you can replace every cleaning product in your house with a safer, non-toxic, biodegradable homemade version using common ingredients like baking soda, club soda, vinegar and salt! + READ MORE

Some Organic Food Is Cheaper Than Regular By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jun 5 2008 David Bach is the author of Go Green, Live Rich and a guest contributor to Planet Green.We went comparison shopping and found that while it's still true that organic fruits and vegetables generally cost more than their pesticide-sprayed counterparts, there are many examples where the organic version actually saves you... + READ MORE