18 hours ago ... Reporting on Sustainably Built Environments from Bricks to Cities.
There’s a reason the lawn always seems moist after a fresh mowing. Each blade of grass stores a significant quantity of water, especially at the base of the blade—and the shorter you cut your grass, the more it will bleed out and evaporate, and the more you’ll have to water. A lawn th...
Comfort is also found in the beauty and durability that adobe houses embody. Many adobe walls are kept without a finish plaster on them, with little stones often embedded in the cob mortar for decoration. Other homes receive beautiful finish clay or lime plasters to give smooth, soft ...
The new study looked at six distinct and diverse climate zones in the United States’ most populous regions —including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix and Seattle — to determine if integrated design methods could cut energy consumption and operating costs for hosp...
“The list of human activities and their impact on the water systems of Planet Earth is long and important,” Anik Bhaduri, Executive Officer of the Global Water System Project (GWSP) said. “We have altered the Earth’s climatology and chemistry, its snow cover, permafrost, sea and glaci...
Prospective Aquaponic Growers - if you are thinking of getting into aquaponics, attend this conference to learn about how people use aquaponics, where people use aquaponics, and how you can use aquaponics to feed your family, feed a village, or produce a profit in a commercial farming...
“New vendors are continually entering the market and previously undiscovered projects are coming to the forefront, such as 27 projects planned or proposed in the state of Connecticut alone,” says Peter Asmus, principal research analyst with Navigant Research. “The outlines of a growin...
When you buy a new garage door, hopefully one that is green, the old one is typically taken away and disposed of in a land fill. While some companies will take the old door and try to refurbish and sell it or will recycle the material, others simply toss it. But there are many creativ...
Although their green impact can seem more tenuous than that of mature trees, plants and herbs are far from being useless around the house. Indeed, having nearby some of the herbs you often use in your recipes (such as basil, cilantro, parsley, chives, thyme, rosemary, etc.) can add a ...
