Martha Stewart featured Kirei Board in a “Living Wall” episode with Scott Hutcheon of Seasons Landscaping. Living walls are a “hot new trend” according to Martha with environmentally aware architects, interior designers and gardeners. Live plants are grown indoors or outdoors on walls, sides of buildings, or in frames, made out of Kirei Board. The benefits of a living wall are air purification and health and wellness.

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I know a few ppl who pride themselves on living w/o a dishwasher. Supposedly, it saves water/energy.

Let’s say I take off all the extra-special heat settings, and just let my dishwasher run the normal cycle, but full of dishes.
Does that really take up more water than by hand? I say, running your faucet for 15-20 minutes straight would take up more water than the machine.

Are there any studies that conclusively show, one way or the other? Why is this so often repeated? How can dishwashers be so bad when they make me so happy?

We have 5 children and by the time I would wash all of our dishes just from dinner, with the water running non-stop and all the soap I would use, nope I use less water with a dish washer. I can almost guarantee it.

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David visits a custom built off-grid home.

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I like to buy veggies seasonally and locally, but the farmer’s market closes in November. (I live in an apt. so no garden). I want to pick the most environmentally conscious choice of veggies–"fresh", frozen, or canned when December rolls around.

The biggest argument I hear is the transportation involved in moving out of season products thousands of miles to market.
I can see significant cost in all that you mention. Canned might be best because it dosnt require refrigeration enroute but then you have proccessing involved in canning. Surely the most assured method would be to "can" or freeze yourself when it is available locally.

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Ed Begley Jr. and his wife, Rachel, continue to go green and save energy by installing Solatube Daylighting Systems – the smart alternative to skylights. The Begleys brighten their dark rooms by bringing in the beauty of natural light. Energy-efficient Solatube products capture sunlight on the roof, redirect down a reflective tube and into your interior space. Simple, cost-effective home improvement. Installs in just two hours. Great for bathrooms, hallways, kitchens, closets, laundry rooms, living rooms, home offices.

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So far I:

– Recycle all glass bottles and jars
– Recycle all paper from home (and work!)
– Recycle Plastic bottles
– Take clothes to charity shop rather than chuck in landfill.

I am keen to both save money and resources by looking at alternative fuels, but I live in a tiny terraced house with a small garden so a wind-based generator and solar panels may be out of the question! Can I also make my car more environmentally friendly, as it is a petrol gulping 1990 ford escort!

Thanks

Composting
energy Efficient light bulbs
loft insulation
double glazing
thick curtains

car: accelerate slowly, don’t brake harshly, don’t do short journeys.

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http://livinghomes.modtech.com/ How fast can a house go? This 4000 sq ft modular green home contains 5 bedrooms and 4 full bathrooms and was installed on a steep hillside in only 2 days! This video covers the installation of the house in the hills of Los Angeles, California. The project qualified for LEED Gold Standard and included numerous interior Green features such as recycled glass bathroom countertops, LED lights that consume less energy than conventional light bulbs, bamboo flooring, low-maintenance ecological kitchen cabinetry and an environmentally friendly washer/dryer system that uses less water and energy. Other green features include 4 kw roof mounted photovoltaic array, windows and doors constructed with recycled glass and aluminum, soy based open cell expanding insulation and redwood siding reclaimed from old military barracks.

The modular building process itself reduced the construction time significantly and also provided a variety of green benefits: reduction of waste sent to landfill, lower raw material waste due to weather damage prevention, decreased traffic & pollution caused by labor force traveling to site.

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I found it hard to word this question. But do you think it is possible for humans to live in a technological world, like today, without the mass destructions of forests, loss of wildlife, world pollution etc. ? Do you think humans will ever live in such a world?

In a hundred years, there will be fewer than one billion people, and probably more like 400 million. Do you notice the cost of fossil fuels is going up? Do you see how the prices for everything else is rising? That’s because it takes petroleum to make them and to distribute them to the market.

The rate of world production of oil has peaked and is on an artificial plateau. That is, the drop-off would be greater by now, except that the Arabs have started pumping seawater under the last of the oil in their fields to raise the pressure and make the extraction faster. However, pumping sea water doesn’t add any more oil to the field than was there to start with, and, when the end comes, it will be sudden.

That’s when you can expect a Great Depression, plus the worst energy crisis in human memory, to slam into humanity at the same time. Food will be difficult to grow because of a shortage of artificial fertilizer, a shortage of pesticides, and a shortage of fuel for tractors and harvesters. It will be difficult to distribute because of a shortage of fuel for trucks. The companies that do these things now won’t be able to stay in business. The government won’t be able to bail them out because of its own economic troubles.

Then there’s global warming. The formerly American, now Mexico-occupied, southwest states of So-Cal, Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas are doomed to endure a drought for most of the rest of the 21st century. That means the Mestizos there will be on the march to points further north and east, pushing us out of yet more American territory. Unless we defeat them somehow, while expecting no help from a government that hasn’t offered any significant help yet in that matter.

The cities will burn. They’re filled with people who are accustomed to a parasitical way of life, living at the expense of working people through welfare checks. Experience has taught those people that they can make our politicians give them even more of our money if they riot, killing people and destroying property. But soon the politicians won’t be able to buy them off any more, so the rioters will tear down the whole city. They’ll invade neighborhoods that were always "safe" before and kill everybody in their own homes. Then they’ll move outward into the suburbs and do the same things.

There’s going to be a lot of killing and destruction soon. But it will last only ten or twenty years all together (with maybe some lulls between the hell times). After the population correction has run its course, the remaining people might find ways to live in an environmentally friendly fashion with what remains of the Earth.

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As we await the warm weather, let’s do some all-natural Spring Cleaning! This week, we learn how to make homemade, organic cleaning supplies and how to create a lovelier library. In preparation for the up-coming gardening season, we get a quick tip on bringing a little green into our nests.

links in this episode:

Dr. Bronner – http://www.drbronner.com/
Drugstore.com – http://www.drugstore.com/
Green Living Ideas – http://greenlivingideas.com/
Martha Stewart – http://www.marthastewart.com/
Method Home – http://www.methodhome.com/
Mrs. Meyers – http://www.mrsmeyers.com/
Seventh Generation – http://www.seventhgeneration.com/

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We have lived in Atlanta and currently live in Baltimore. We are leaning towards the west somewhere, maybe Austin, San Diego, Arizona?

A second vote for the San Francisco Bay Area. Though it is expensive here, you get what you pay for: a warm (usually!) place with lots of veggie restaurants.

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