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the sustainable line: a blog on green building
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Thoughts on the green building movement and a sustainably built environment.
Recent Posts
Cabbage Patch Kids, Tickle-Me-Elmo, Wii, and now TED
Lines are forming, preorders being filled, sold out signs are on web sites. The great “must haves” for the holiday season have a new member, TED. An acronym for The Energy Device, it is a real-time gauge of your home’s energy use. For a few yea...
The Rebate Tide
Rebates and tax incentives have been flowing like a tide. High tide for the solar industry in Colorado has just happened. Everybody wants it, and heck the price can be reduced up to half with rebates. The payback is not great but those panels look p...
Concrete Learns Some New Tricks
First published on the GenGreen Bog.We love concrete, maybe you don’t know it, but look around. It forms the basis of almost everything built. Think of it as liquid rock. Simply pour it into any shape you want so you can put whatever you want on to...
The Gift That Stops Taking
Welcome to the holiday gift guide from the sustainable line. Rather than soap boxing about how you should stop buying more stuff (want less) or to start giving your money to well-deserving charities, I thought that this holiday season we could celebr...
Green Bling
Originally published on GenGreen.When it come to the green marketplace there is a lot of sexy stuff: clothing, creams, computers, cars, and of course building products. Just about everything you can buy seems to have a green variation. Markete...
Your Third Skin
A house essentially acts as your third skin. The second skin is your clothing and the first skin is what you buy all those moisturizers for. Comfort and protection is the name of the game. Your own skin is excellent at this. Your clothing is not so b...

