What makes a home Green? Standards vary. The soft definition is that a Green home, from how it is built, to how it is heated, cooled and maintained, should conserve energy and water and avoid or limit the use and generation of toxic materials. Zero Energy Building or Zero Net Energy Building (ZNE) has low-to-no […]
Green Homes
Phat Trash: the Art of Creative Renewal in the City Different
Floors made from wine corks? Windows of crystal platters? In Huntsville, Texas, a community’s cast offs gain new life under the direction of Dan Phillips, founder of Phoenix Commotion, a company which crafts affordable housing out of durable discards from construction sites, roadside pickings and trash heaps. Read more about this visionary project in the […]
Greentelligence on the Home Front
Tiny Green homes that balance small size with smart choices are here to satisfy home buyers looking for low-cost, environmentally-friendly dwellings. “Consumers in general want a home that is cozier, more organized and more economical in terms of operating costs,” said Stacy Rogers in Home Buying Trends in 2010. Here are two examples of great […]
At Peace With Differences
Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that aren’t. –Anonymous Recently we had an tipping point experience that coalesced a lifetime of observations and encounters into a need to speak. A woman who has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) contacted us to help her buy a home in or […]
Green Links for Santa Fe Homeowners
Unsure what makes a home Green? Befuddled by Green terminology? Concerned about the EPA’s Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule? Or just want to know more about what makes Santa Fe a leader on the Green living front? Following is a “nothing but the facts” post on matters Green: an aggregation of links to sites that […]
