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Hemp Growing In The 21st Century: What Are The Barriers?
Over the last few weeks, I noticed my social streams filling up with articles and memes in support of hemp farming and hemp products. I wondered why there was such [...] Related posts: Winter...
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How To Source Cut Flowers Sustainably and Fairly
The cut flower industry is a 40-billion-dollar-a-year industry. Sadly most of the flowers in the US are imported from Latin American countries with lax regulations about pesticides. Labor practices are...
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Small Space Composting Made Easy
When people talk about composting, the first thing that usually comes to mind is a large mass of decomposed (yet fertile) materials piling up in someone’s backyard. However, composting is [...] Related...
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Energy Efficient Cooling In The Summer: Moving Air is Cool
It’s common knowledge that a fan keeps you cool. There is a complicated scientific reason for it. My short interpretation is this: When you feel hot, there is a fine [...] Related posts: Heating,...
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Tankless Task: Saving Resources With A Tankless Water Heater
There are lots of little ways to reducing our impact to our environment at home. But there are also major investments you can make to make the most of what [...] Related posts: Easy Summertime DIY...
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Green Architecture: Using Water to Cool Your House
Somebody sent me this article about a man in Albuquerque whose property is nearly sustainable. His philosophy is to work with nature, not against it, and I am completely in [...] Related posts: Keeping...
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LEDs: #1 Trend in Green Home Improvement
Green home improvements have been on the rise in the last few years, with homeowners and contractors focusing on green home design. Many green improvements have become popular, but the [...] Related...
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Green Consumer: The Revolution Begins With You
There’s an article from the Washington Post getting some notice today. It tells how the word “natural” helps the food industry net more than $40 billion a year. Sadly, it’s [...] Related posts: Green...
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How To Create Your Own Compost Pile
Composting is a great way to return nutrients to the soil. It even contains more nutrients than peat moss! This practice can lead to healthier plants in your garden by [...] Related posts: Create Your...
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Solar Energy For Farmland? No.
When I read this article about using farmland for large solar arrays, well, I was speechless! I was shocked, angry, appalled, and thought how can anyone be so stupid to [...] Related posts: Solar...
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Bees Bees Bees: Beekeeping in the 21st Century
One of the things that has changed in the 21st century when compared to the 20th is the hard line between rural life and urban life. Sure, there still is [...] Related posts: The Buzz about Beekeeping...
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Alternative Energy: Can A Home Really Be Off-Grid?
Whether hoping to save money on utility bills, reduce the carbon footprint of a home, or just become less dependent on water and power companies, many people are turning to [...] Related posts: Solar...
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Re-Thinking Lawns and Lawncare
Lush green lawns are undoubtedly beautiful, but if you aren’t smart about their care, they can quickly become a drain on your resources and the environment. Here are six ‘green’ [...] Related posts:...
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3 Alternative Housing Ideas
When you hear the phrase ‘alternative housing’, what do you think of? Energy efficient? Solar? Water catchment? Green building and energy saving properties should be mainstream, but what else...
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Community Gardens are Important!
I was saddened to read about the community gardens along the Arbutus corridor in Vancouver being bulldozed. The article stated that gardens tended by families, some for 20 years, on [...] Related...
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Apps to Reduce Kitchen Waste
It’s the peak of harvest season, which means lots of vegetable washing, chopping, cooking, freezing and canning. That means lots of food scraps, water usage, stock making, recycling and composting. I...
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Another Reason for Solar on Every Rooftop
When Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) was developed not many years ago, I was a huge fan. Thousands of mirrors catch sunlight and direct it to a boiler tower that activates a steam generator, which in...
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Solar Panel Design: Ramping Up Clean Energy Generation
Imagine being off-grid without standard solar panels. What?! That could be possible in the very near future. The technology for clear solar collectors is on the horizon. Transparent luminescent solar...
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How To Prepare To Go Off-Grid
With the cost of solar plummeting, it is more and more tempting to go off-grid. It certainly is more economical than before, and people want to live cheaply and with the planet, maybe as rebels, maybe...
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Urban Greenspace From An Old Railroad Track
My ancestors came from Holland in the mid-1600s and settled in New York City. When I learned that, I had to find out what Manhattan was like back then. I was not surprised to find that what are now the...
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