green
Wiping away landfill waste
Wet-Nap manufacturer just transformed their plant in Green Bay to a Zero-Waste facility.
Frustration, Misunderstanding and Delay – Oh, My!
To be honest, even for us in the field, it is sometime frustrating how slow the process goes at times.
Not Just Idle Practice
Idling is linked to increases in asthma, allergies, heart and lung disease and cancer.
Idling gets ZERO miles per gallon.
Idling for 1 hour burns nearly 1 gallon of gasoline.
Ten seconds of idling can use more fuel than turning off the engine and restarting it.
Letting your car idle vs turning it off:
If you know you are going [...]
Windows are meant to bring in light not water
There are two pressing problems with our existing building that are typical issues with many older homes – the windows and the insulation.
Although the exterior walls have cutting edge insulation for their time, there have been vast improvements on how the insulation meets the windows. In our home, the windows are set into exterior foam [...]
The One Place Smaller is Better
For the longest time we have been thinking about how to build a cost and resource efficient addition. The design inspiration we had came from two typical sources, This Old House and HGTV. Our idea was to build a completely separate building so we wouldn’t have to “touch” the existing structure. We could use share [...]
Buying Rural Education with your T-shirt
As important as it is to recognize mainstream companies that make a step in the right direction, it’s even more important to support companies that are doing extraordinary things to save the world in a fun and cost effective manner.
hessnature, a clothing company that focus on encouraging social and environmental programs throughout the world, introduced [...]
LED as lead to GREEN!
A major landmark in Madison Wisconsin has change in the last few months. Coyle Carpet One, LLC had an older sign and message center that spoke to drivers for the past 20 years. Now that sign and message center is greener! Most people measure the success of any business venture or investment buy the ROI. [...]
Doggie Do
Samantha writes: Most everyone knows how harmful plastic bags are to the environment and that they do not breakdown in landfills. Most people also know that doggy dookie can degrade our water quality and spread diseases and bacteria. So when my five pound Yorkshire Terrier does her duty outside my boyfriend and I use toilet [...]
From the 70’s to the 2000’s
We live in a 1970’s designed home, built to incorporate the best building practices of its time including passive solar heating, 2” exterior foam insulation, and a small building footprint. Many things have changed since then in both our knowledge as well as in our lifestyles. And as a result, there are energy and resource [...]
