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the sustainable line: a blog on green building

the sustainable line: a blog on green building

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Thoughts on the green building movement and a sustainably built environment.

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  • Cabbage Patch Kids, Tickle-Me-Elmo, Wii, and now TED

    Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 13:52 in ted, energy use, home energy waste

    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

    Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 12:38 in energy efficiency, solar power, energy audit, energy tax rebate

    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

    Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 16:25 in concrete, carbon, sri, thermal mass, gengreen

    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

    Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 10:37 in gifts, newsletter, energy efficiency, local economy, water efficiency

    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

    Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 18:44 in greenwash, green marketplace, gengreen

    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

    Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 12:19 in newsletter, comfort, hvac, solar electricity, energy audit, solar tube

    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...

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