One Nevada City family creates a 6,000 square-foot luxury home powered and heated entirely by solar panels and built with environmentally friendly materials.
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I’m trying my best (step by step) to live as environmentally friendly as possible. I’m wondering what the great companies are out there (mind you, i live in po-dunk nowhere currently, so i don’t have access to much), and also what the bad ones are that i should avoid. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Here are a couple websites that may be helpful
biggreenpurse.com
betterworldshopper.com
Better World shopper grades a variety of companies on their social and environmental tract record.
Big Green Purse gives lots of tips on how to shop for the things we need while keeping the planet in mind.
Eco friendly consumer products that are sustainable and environmentally friendly that will be displayed at the EPIC Vancovuer Green Living and Sustainable show which will show case see whats hot in sustainable and ethically produced products
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Watch as a pair of conservation experts discusses the topic of “green” cleaning in this free online video about environmentalism.
Expert: Nili Nathan
Contact: www.earth911.org
Bio: Nili Nathan, host of “Great Healing Getaways”, is the creator of a television series and Web site on holistic health, where she researches, writes, and reports.
Filmmaker: Nili Nathan
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http://www.modelinia.com brings you a world of fashion, beauty, entertainment, and MODELS.
Lonneke Engel takes Modelinia along for a visit to a New York City farmer’s market and gives a lesson in organic living. After she picks up her fresh fare, it’s back to her apartment to demonstrate how she makes a green salad with grilled scallops.
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Watch as a pair of conservation experts demonstrates how to make a “green” nursery in this free online video about environmentalism.
Expert: Nili Nathan
Contact: www.earth911.org
Bio: Nili Nathan, host of “Great Healing Getaways”, is the creator of a television series and Web site on holistic health, where she researches, writes, and reports.
Filmmaker: Nili Nathan
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Roomy Interiors owner Joanna Kakkavas talks about multifunctional eco friendly furniture. Creating sustainable living can be done in style. Visit http://www.roomyinteriors.com for more information.
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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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This book is very easy to read with wonderful and useful information. If you want to start thinking "green" then this book is a great start.
The book spans a wide range of topics - including beauty products, cleaning products, linens and mattresses, and home improvement. If you are going to make any large-scale eco-friendly investments (on-demand water heater, organic mattress, hybrid car, solar panels) youre going to need to do much more research than what is in this book. If youre just looking for a primer covering a lot of topics and dont mind it when it states the obvious (bring your own bags to the store, recycle your trash) or hawks products, then you might find this book useful.
David visits a custom built off-grid home.
Learn how to identify eco-friendly products with these green guidelines.