home improvements
Urbanite for Suburbanites
Greg Peterson
When you see a pile of broken concrete lying around, do you think hip new building material or something to haul to the dump? If you yearn to give new life to your old concrete driveway, count yourself as a trendsetter. Urbanite is gaining great respect as a 21st century building material
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A Healthy Living Environment
Paige R. Jacques
Did you know that allergists claim that up to 50 percent of illness is caused (or worsened) by indoor pollution?
Did you also know that the federal Environmental Protection Agency states that 65 percent of our homes or buildings are polluted – sometimes six to ten times higher than city air pollution?
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There really is a monster in your kids rooms.
Irv Weinberg
You may not know it, but lurking behind the happy colors and cute images in your kids rooms are toxic avengers doing their dirty deeds. That just painted smell. That new carpet odor. They're signals that chemicals are invading your space. This is especially important in the spaces our children occupy because their smaller bodies can't fend off pollutants the way an adult body can.
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Hurray for Clay!
Irv Weinberg
Clay is one of the oldest, healthiest and most sustainable building materials on earth. It pre-dates recorded history and has been used by indigenous peoples for millennia, all across the globe.
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Dirty Work: Earth Floors
Maura Yates
Earthen flooring, also known as dirt floors, is quickly gaining popularity among environmentally conscious homeowners who are opting to forgo traditional flooring such as hardwood or carpeting. Made from dirt, lime, sand, clay and paper pulp and sealed with linseed oil and beeswax, this flooring is inexpensive, quick to install and unique.
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Why Heat the Outdoors?
Ted Nickell
Sooner or later all the heat you produce inside your house will end up outside. The way houses are being built today, you need a supersized furnace to keep replacing the heat that is quietly sneaking out to play. How do you avoid this?
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Tubular Skylights
Maura Yates
Let the Sun Shine In! Looking for a way to bring natural daylight into your home, basement, or office?
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The Green Building Pipe
Amy J. Belanger
They used to say it was a pipe dream.
Now it’s on the cover of Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, USA Today, BizAz, and all over the Internet. It has garnered its own dedicated eight-page section in the New York Times, and it’s even covered in The Economist and Fortune.
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