7 years toward zero energy
The Beddington Zero Energy Development – BedZED for short – is now seven years old in England and a report has been drafted that describes how much its residents have reduced their carbon footprints. I won’t get too far into the report, as Treehugger does a great job of that already, but I think it’s [...]
Every city should have one of these
Today I visited the Portland ReBuilding Center, and hopefully you can get an idea of what it is from the title: it’s a place where people can donate used building materials so they can be sold again for new building projects. It’s building recycling, or, “rebuilding”. And it’s great! Have a look:
I am originally from [...]
Portland is awesome!
Look at what I found while perusing the city of Portland’s various pages about sustainability: it’s a handout that details things that you can do, both at home and at work, to reduce your impact on the environment. It’s great!
And this is why Portland is leading the country on sustainable design issues! Awesome.
Meet Dorothy.
Dorothy is my new set of wheels. Well, she is new to me, but actually she is quite old. She’s a 1995 Ford Escort Wagon with only 27,000 miles that I received from a private owner for a VERY reasonable price. She is in excellent condition for a car her age, and if I play [...]
What is home?
I just got done moving out of an apartment in Downtown Los Angeles that I occupied for two years. I managed to purge about 80% of my furniture and at least 50% of my stuff. A long and exhausting struggle to move my remaining belongings into storage really made me start to think [...]
Inside an Airstream Trailer
Currently writing to you from inside an Airstream trailer! Lots of fun stuff here today….if the Airstream’s a rockin’ don’t come knockin’…
Packing material
Previously known as “bank and phone statements from prior to 2004″. Shred it, bag it, reuse it for packing plates and dishes. It’s that easy!
Aktivhaus!
From Treehugger comes news of a “passive house” with solar hot water collectors and a heat pump that actually generates more energy than the house consumes. A typical passive house is designed with lots of insulation and less windows, in order to absorb heat and trap it in, thereby conserving solar energy and reducing the [...]
Important Business & the iHouse
Sorry I’ve been so absent lately….I had to attend to the important business of graduating.
In other news, this story about the Clayton Homes iHouse got passed around the blogosphere a couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to mention it here briefly. What I think is really intriguing about the iHouse is that is [...]
Woe is me: A Packrat’s Dilemma
One of the things that I didn’t understand for a long time was that to lessen my impact on the Earth, I needed to consume a lot less stuff. Part of my urge for consumption in the first place surely comes from being an American – as Americans, we are told that consumerism is, in [...]
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