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Reclaimed Kitchen Materials 101

Posted by smarquit on Friday, 27 April 2012 in Green Design

For all the kitchen projects I’ve performed inside East Hamptons Rentals, homes and other sorts of similar geographic real estate, I’ve had very few requests for reclaimed materials. And I didn’t really find this strange until very recently. You see, remodeling any part of a household, but especial...

Sustainable Industries Announces Top 10 Green Building Products

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 in Green Design

Sixth-annual awards competition nets the biggest field of nominees to date. Sustainable Industries today announced the winners of its sixth annual Top 10 Green Building Products awards and the launch of its Top 10 website. This year’s winners were selected by a panel of expert judge...

Gardening on the Roof

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 21 August 2011 in Green Design

NEWARK -- On a warm fall day in 2008, Annette Shine sat in a classroom teaching a course she likes to call "how not to blow up a chemical plant." Her group of University of Delaware chemical engineering students struggled to learn the difficult material in a sweaty, 86-degree room. The bui...

Green Homes Get Rated on Energy Use

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 in Green Design

More new homes now will come with energy labels that estimate monthly energy bills, allowing buyers a different way of shopping for homes. The energy labels have been compared to the miles-per-gallon ratings available for cars, which give insight into a car’s fuel efficiency. Likewise, more ...

10 Reasons Utilities Want to Build Their Own Smart Grid Networks

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 02 August 2010 in Green Design

The debate over whether utilities want to use public networks, like cell phone company infrastructure, or build out their own private networks for their smart grid deployments, rages on. On one hand smaller utilities don’t generally want to have the responsibilities — and expenses — of an IT...

Greening America's Capitals

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 17 June 2010 in Green Design

Greening America's Capitals is a project of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities between EPA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to help state capitals develop an implementable vision of distinctive, environmentally frie...

Sears Tower Going Greener

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 in Green Design

On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, executives at the Sears Tower announced plans for the most significant sustainable modernization projects of an existing building ever undertaken. The project will result in energy savings and reduced CO2 emissions to the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, cutt...

Just a Teenager; What can i do?

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 30 January 2009 in Green Design

My name is Christen, I am 16 and live in the US. Now I’m no special teenager. I go to school, try to get good grades, shop, hang out with friends, and secretly dream about prince charming saving me. So my Grandma and Uncle started this thing called Earth Protect “yeah, yeah I know “save the planet ...