When it comes to living green, a major component is your actual house or apartment. Making sure your dwelling is green includes the materials used to build your home, (a long story in itself) and another issue is home size. When it comes to green homes, smaller is better if you’d like to lower your footprint. The last component of green housing is the community you live in.

Community and where you live in said community goes a long way toward being or not being green. If your home is green, but in a terribly un-green community or you live so …read more

This Earth Day you can focus on the one day or you can set goals to create green change in your entire community. When whole neighborhoods get involved that’s a lot of people working for change – SO much better than just one household.
Following are 8 ways you can work towards a greener community…

1. Use your voice: Until people start talking about green, changes are unlikely to occur. Tell a neighbor about how you’re greening your life or home; tell two neighbors.
2. Tear down fences: Fences and other home dividers create a feeling of separation. Families in neighborhoods actually used …read more

Or so that’s what I hear. Heard, to be exact, last night on the Red, Hot, & Green special on HGTV. I’d like to take this moment to point out that I did list this show as an “Offbeat Hot” last week. Turns out I was right. This show was very cool.
I felt that the show didn’t cover too much in terms of new green ideas per say. There were very few ideas discussed that were new to me, and probably fewer that would be new to the average green builder. What was cool and unique about this show is …read more