From Rain to Beauty

Rainy season has come. Water is everywhere and becomes so lively color all people are feeling in my country. Rain is not only ordinary natural event. This is a season that has been waited for six month or more by people. Dry season has made farms suffer from dryness. Farmers will be suffering from it due to their failure in the harvest. But I will not too far to talk about rain. Rain is always romantic. For many reasons, people believe that rainy season is gift from God. Falling in love people also think that rain is the sign that their feeling will grow as rain comes to them. Beside, rain makes people stay at home with the warmth they wait for six months. Therefore, people make rain as one reason to beautify their house.

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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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Improve Ur Home With…

To be visited by the relatives is obviously an amusing thing to have in the holidays or weekend, especially those who have not been met for years. If we should meet them in the street or park, sometimes we forget their faces, or merely remember the physical appearance from the past only. Well, the only thing they can do is apparently go to our house and see whether or not we are still like what they thought (the physical appearance of course). Nevertheless, trouble comes when they forget our house, and remember only the street or boulevard where we live in. Even sometimes, the close relatives forget which one our house is (among hundreds of houses in the blocks), and the only thing the remember is the numbers of our house.

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Green Living Recipes

The net cost of owning a green buildings home can be comparable to that of owning a conventional home – sometimes even less.
On average, green homes can add 2.42% additional upfront costs as compared to conventional homes, according to the Costs and Benefits of Green Affordable Housing Study 2005, New Ecology and the Tellus Institute. Many green homes are built with no additional upfront costs. A 2008 study conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction and the Green Building Council found that the mean price of green homes purchased by survey respondents was $296,000; the median was $239,000.
If there are any increased upfront costs, those costs will typically be quickly recouped, and homeowners will be saving money for the rest of the home’s lifespan.

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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.

Solar Power

We’ve all heard the benefits of solar power: reduced energy bills (some states and provinces even allow you to generate power and sell it back to the grid or offer grants to homeowners), less demand on already stressed city power grids, it’s a form of renewable energy. Solar power seems so, well, perfect—if only I knew it were right for my house. Then I’d get on it right away. I would, really!

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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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Eco-building’s

The marching order to “leave nothing but footprints” enlisted an infantry of green builders this season, before our collective attention turned to security. While our man from the Midland Petroleum Club (aka George Bush) dissed environmental causes and dismissed global warming, — before his attention, too, was turned — a growing number of land-shapers and place-makers began to cast an ecological eye toward planning and construction. Whether labeled green building, sustainable architecture, organic architecture or what one inclusionist calls “The Whole Building,” this new constituency of ecologically-attuned and everyday builders has begun to consider environmental values in building inside and out – from the materials in the making, to the siting of the structure, to the energy it consumes.

Tips for Cleaning With Vinegar

White vinegar is one of the cheapest and most versatile cleaners around. It does not streak, it is safe for hands and it is environmentally friendly.

Here are a few great tips for using vinegar in the kitchen:

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