The long term environmental benefits of converting or updating your loft have long been known. Improving the insulation capabilities of a once draughty attic means less energy is exerted when heating your home, saving both the planet and your wallet. …
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From Guest Blogger Mark Hutchison: Green Living – How to Transform Your Home
From financial savings to setting a good example for our children, battling health issues and better lifestyles green living has never been so popular. The need for consumers to plant their footprint into an improved and sustainable future has turned …
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From Guest Blogger Nadav Ziv: Simple Green Fixes for the Average Home
The environment is declining, natural resources are on the fall, global warming has become a tangible phenomena and yet there are many simple steps that we can take in order to stem and reverse the ill-effects that we have on …
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From Guest Blogger Andrew Womble: Using Passive Solar Design in Your Home
While solar power has become prevalent in the mainstream construction business in the past decade, passive solar design has been used around the world for thousands of years. Ceramic tiles and stones walls in the Mediterranean made it possible to …
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From Guest Blogger Jeanette: How Do You Exactly Define an Energy Efficient Home?
How can your home be energy efficient? For your home to be considered energy efficient, it should use less energy but does not sacrifice its comfortability and healthiness. With all that is available today and the advancement of technology, you …
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Breakthrough in Geothermal Home Design
For a very long time, we’ve had a basic fact in the palm of our hands: the temperature of our Earth a few meters beneath the surface is essentially constant, and if we can figure out some basic engineering, this …
From Guest Blogger Malene Thyssen: Is Wood Always the Eco-Friendly Option?
So, you want a new set of windows and doors. Fine, that seems like a pretty simple decision, but there’s actually a lot to deliberate over. Will you choose cherry or chestnut, bronze or beige? Are you leaning towards traditional …
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From Guest Blogger Allison: Why Spray Foam Roofing is a Green and Sustainable Roof Option
Everyone is looking for ways to save money on energy bills. Compact fluorescent light bulbs, tankless water heaters, water timers for the garden, and more are gaining popularity for they are proven to save money on utility bills. Although most …
From Guest Blogger Tom Grant: How North Carolina Residents are Building a Sustainable Living Environment
The climate on planet Earth is changing; there is no denying this fact. It might remain up for debate the extent to which human actions have accelerated the changes occurring in the climate today, but it is clear that actions …
From Guest Blogger Tom Grant: The Green Home — Five Ways to Take Your Energy Efficiency to the Next Level
Most homeowners are now aware of the need to achieve greater energy efficiency in their homes. Energy bills are on the rise and are unlikely to fall anytime soon and with household budgets already stretched in many homes, it makes …
