From the New York Times on Wednesday, June 11, 2009:
Environmental savings can be elusive, and the benefits and costs confusing. To help households wade through the information, consultants armed with stepladders and gadgets are selling advice on energy efficiency, indoor air quality and even methods for creating an eco-conscious wardrobe.
The field of personal and home [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Sustainable Living'
How green is your shelter?
June 11th, 2009 · No Comments
Category: Energy, Information · Energy, Renewable · Recycling · Sustainable Living
Wash water + a simple valve = happy plants
June 8th, 2009 · No Comments
From npr.org on Monday, June 8, 2009:
Susan Carpenter breaks California state plumbing code three times a week. Her accomplice is her washing machine. Rinse water from washing machines usually goes into the sewer — so what if you could recycle it? That’s what Carpenter does, using it to water plants at her Southern California home.
“The [...]
Category: Mechanical Systems · Recycling · Sustainable Living
Green building can present new legal risks
June 1st, 2009 · No Comments
From the New York Times on Friday, May 29, 2009:
Building green can open the door to plenty of legal pitfalls, a new study warns.
The study, by Harvard Law School’s Environmental Law & Policy Clinic and sponsored by Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, a Philadelphia law firm, says that green building raises a number of liability [...]
Category: Building Structure · Legislation and Policy · Sustainable Living
First Ever Recycle Roundup: Recycle Now!
May 14th, 2009 · No Comments
BY Adam Wasch, Energy Outreach Consultant for CCHRC and UAF CES
Energy Focus: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner May 14th, 2009, Section A3
It’s not easy recycling in Fairbanks. Just as soon as you load your vehicle full of cans, bottles, and plastics to drop off at the last place you took them, it turns out that whoever accepted [...]
Category: Energy Focus Articles · Recycling · Sustainable Living
Obama orders energy efficiency standards upgraded
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments
From the New York Times on Thursday, February 5, 2009:
President Obama ordered the Energy Department on Thursday to immediately draft long-overdue standards to make a variety of appliances and light bulbs more energy efficient.
Over the last three decades, Congress has demanded stricter efficiency standards on 30 categories of products, as varied as residential air-conditioners and [...]
Category: Energy, Information · Legislation and Policy · Sustainable Living
Keeping your skin soft in northern climes
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments
From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Wednesday, February 4, 2009:
Moving to Alaska two years ago brought a lot of changes to my life, but one of the biggest was what happened to my skin.
The Last Frontier’s forested landscape was a feast for my urban eyes, but it wrought havoc on my face. When I went [...]
Category: Northern Living · Sustainable Living
Weatherization set to win in stimulus funding
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments
From npr.org on Monday, February 23, 2009:
People in the business of weatherizing homes are expecting to profit from the new economic stimulus plan. The federal aid package sets aside $5 billion worth of spending for making homes and buildings more energy-efficient. The idea is to save energy, create jobs — and even perhaps slow global [...]
Category: Energy, Information · Energy, Renewable · Legislation and Policy · Sustainable Living
The biggest energy source? Efficiency!
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments
From Yale University’s environment360, posted on 11/26/08, retrieved on Friday, February 27, 2009:
Yale Environment 360: You have called energy efficiency “the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest, fastest way to provide energy services.” How do you quantify that claim? For example, how large, how cheap, how fast?
Amory Lovins: Oh, for example, in the United States we could [...]
Category: Energy, Information · Energy, Renewable · Recycling · Sustainable Living
How green is your “nautilus pink” paint?
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments
From the Washington Post on Thursday, May 7, 2009:
There was a time when choosing paint for a home mostly meant mulling over color swatches (”Sahara or Sandy Beach?”). Now, for many homeowners, there’s also the pressing issue of being green: finding paint that not only looks good but is environmentally friendly or, at the very [...]
Category: Sustainable Living
A “green” green lawn
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments
From the New York Times, published on April 1, 2009:
In honor of spring and the ongoing quest for the perfect lawn, the Green Home asked Bill Duesing, an educator with the Northeast Organic Farming Association, a nonprofit group devoted to sustainable farming and gardening, for tips on achieving an attractive yard without wreaking environmental havoc.
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Category: Recycling · Sustainable Living
