small garden

The problems that many homeowners are facing in connection a confined area. Limitations of this field is used often spurred homeowners to every inch of land he owned the room. Dus, no area was left open at the back of the house. This air circulation and the availability of light for the house will be less because there is only one opening, ie at the front of the house.

The lack of openings in the house beginning to make health is at stake. In addition to health considerations, the absence of openings in the back of the house will eliminate cross-ventilation) (cross-ventilation. Thus the hot air trapped inside the house and is less comfortable conditions for occupants.
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The Color of Green

Green living can start from your garden. This is a true statement for our life has been too individualist. People have to be more concern about life value and nature. Actually, people in all around have made good movement toward the condition, for instance, our pop king has wrote many songs related to our nature. He sings earth song to make people realize that our nature is in danger. So, people, we must start our green living from our own house.

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Landscape gardening

Landscape gardening has often been likened to the painting of a picture. Your art-work teacher has doubtless told you that a good picture should have a point of chief interest, and the rest of the points simply go to make more beautiful the central idea, or to form a fine setting for it. So in landscaping there must be in the gardener’s mind a picture of what he desires the whole to be when he completes his work.

Eco Friendly Bags

When you strut yourself in the grocery store, you are usually jam-packed with brown bags. Others also use plastics which are very harmful to the environment in various ways. Some people use plastic containers for their lunch which may contribute to the increasing amount of landfill.

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Green Renovating For Your Home

Green Home For You

Education is your best friend when it comes to building a greener life. It’s not the easiest way to live for most of us in a hectic 9 -5, but it’s good to know there are doable steps that will bring you closer to making an impact (versus being a pseudo green washer with a head full of half-truths and slogans). There are many simple and cheap steps we can take to increase energy efficiency, reduce waste and toxicity.

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The First Healthy Building

The first Healthy Building News for 2007 is a week late. On the eve of publication last week, our scheduled topic was rendered moot by the US EPA’s decision to prohibit the residential use of a toxic pressure treated wood formula known as ACC (acid copper chromate). Its main ingredient, hexavalent chromium, is the human carcinogen that made Erin Brockovich a household name.

The urgency of the pending EPA decision had itself bumped our original topic for the 2007 inaugural issue — highlighting the positive implications of the ambitious USGBC initiatives unveiled last November at GreenBuild. The EPA’s surprise but welcome decision brings our thesis full circle: the growing weight of the evidence suggests that the climate of the green building movement is changing, for the better.

Consider this: the US EPA did not move to restrict the use of arsenic-based pressure treated wood until nearly a decade after the green building movement’s journal of record, Environmental Building News, suggested it should be phased out.

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Make Ur Life Green

The concept of “green” buildings is catching on in the commercial painting contractors business, despite the economic crisis that is gripping the country and the whole world these days. Even as new construction projects are declining, the demand for green buildings is increasing. Building owners and commercial painting contractors are more and more interested in the significant benefits that a green building can bring.

Green buildings use environment-friendly materials and methods to construct. Green buildings are not only sustainable and eco-friendly, but also provide huge savings during its construction and post-construction phases. Once the building is operational, long-terms savings continue to be realized in terms of lesser utility bills and maintenance costs. With green buildings, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) estimates an average ROI of 20%.