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8 Sustainable Weeds You Can Eat

Annika Tostengard — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:20:52 +0000

Don’t let that biomass go to waste! Weeds are not good for the garden, but not all of them need to be thrown away. Some can actually be used as a food source. With all the pesticides and other methods of keeping weeds away, simply eating them seems like a much more sustainable way of […]

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Green Home Fail – 100% of Insulation Installations Defective in New Zealand

Benji Jerew — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:23:11 +0000

Green homes, especially where the climate is outside of human comfort zones, depend on proper insulation. Fiberglass insulation is a key component to the green home. This barrier, in the winter, keeps the heat creeping through the walls to a slow crawl. In the summer, the insulation does the same thing, only keeping the heat […]

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UK Entrepreneur Retrofits His Home to Save Electricity and Become Greener

Guest Contributor — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:41:34 +0000

59 year-old visionary Nick Sandy has ambitiously developed his 1960s house into a stylish environmentally-friendly home fit for a superstar like James Bond. It took Sandy at least 18 months to bring about the transformation of his pad into a £1 million property of what many would label an environmentalist’s fantasy. But this is not […]

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Rice Husks Making Cement Become Less Of a Polluter

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:03:27 +0000

Cement is made by heating limestone with clay at high temperatures, and is responsible for 5 percent of the global carbon dioxide emissions, with a ton of CO2 released for every ton of cement produced. To reduce that figure, a team of researchers from the University of Dundee in UK, developed an environmentally-friendly cement made of waste organic materials, such as rice husks.

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Earthship: Dennis Weaver's Proof You Can Build Greener

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:21:05 +0000

Dennis Weaver (1924-2006), a retired actor, environmentalist, humanitarian, has built a house whose walls are made of nothing but rubber tires and cans. It is very energy-efficient, as he himself discovered, powered mostly by solar panels and renewable energy.

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Michael Strizki`s Solar/Hydrogen/Geothermal Powered House – Amazing!

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:59:10 +0000

Michael Strizki's house is the most low impact house I've ever seen. He lives his life off-grid, because his home system feature solar panels, 10 hydrogen tanks filled with the excess energy from the solar panels, with the hydrogen taken out of water, and a 15 year-old geothermal system, that covered its price 8 times since it was installed.

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