Kitchen Makeover Series: Green Countertops Part III

Another resourceful solid surface countertop, Alkemi, is made from fine flake aluminum milling scrap and polyester resins. “By re-purposing this aluminum scrap which commonly burns up as a heavy smoke pollutant during conventional aluminum recycling, Alkemi leaves no hazardous footprint.”

Kitchen Makeover Series: Green Countertops Part II

Today I’ll be exploring a great new countertop material called EcoTop. This year, it achieved one of “The Top 10 Green Building Products” by Sustainable Industries.

Kitchen Makeover Series: Green Countertops

This week, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the numerous eco-friendly countertop choices that are on the market today. It’s getting easier to increase the green quotient of kitchen remodeling projects with beautiful, functional products.

Agricultural Waste Brings New Life to Furnishings

Beautiful and durable furniture, cabinetry, flooring, and casework are now being made from a variety of agricultural waste by-products. Wheat straw, sunflower seed hulls, and stalks from the Sorghum plant are typically burned or disposed of unnecessarily after harvest, but new uses for the reclaimed ag-fibers are used to make innovative interior design elements.

Home Values and Green Upgrades

Low Impact Living has a good post about the return on your investment when making green home improvements.
Source: Low Impact Living

The Point of Point-of-use-Water Heaters

If you have to wait for what seems like eternity for the water to run hot in your shower or sink, you could probably use a “point-of-use” water heater. It’s a small electric appliance, typically mounted under a cabinet or in a closet, designed to supply hot water to a designated fixture. This [...]

Is Your Old Refrigerator a Waste of Energy?

In most households, the refrigerator is the biggest energy-consuming kitchen appliance. But there’s good news: Energy Star qualified refrigerators require about half as much energy as models manufactured before 1993 (and even 40% less than 2001 models). Not only will you reduce your carbon footprint by replacing your old frig with [...]

Looking For a New Energy Efficient Appliance?

If you’re still looking at an avocado-colored refrigerator, you’re paying too much for your electricity bill. Those old green appliances aren’t very “green”. Even appliances that are only 10 years old are using far more power than today’s least energy-efficient models. I suppose it’s not a problem if you receive your electricity from [...]

Green Home & Garden Show in Oregon

For all you lucky people who live out in the Eugene, Oregon area, this weekend is sure to be fun-filled and educational at the 3rd Annual Good Earth Home, Garden & Living show. The cost of admission and parking is free, but you can do your good deed for the day by bringing a [...]

Drought Relief Efforts

These days news of droughts around the U.S., and the world for that matter, is commonplace, but there are simple things that everyone can do to conserve water:

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