Greening Up Your Existing Furnace

Want to improve your indoor air quality and improve the efficiency of your current furnace? It is simple to change your furnace filters, and even better to replace them with reusable filters (and it doesn’t cost a lot). See how.

Straw Bale House Construction and Natural Building Internship

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Are you interested in a hands-on straw bale building experience? As you know, there is no better way to learn than by doing. Red Earth Farms is an 80 acre, off-the-grid intentional community based in northeastern Missouri, composed of individual homesteads. Members strive to live ecologically – this means, of course, that members use natural [...]

Energy Challenge Issued to Employees

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Are you and your company ready to take Energy Star’s newest challenge, “Bring Your Green to Work?” Find out what it entails and how to get started.

Green Home Contest: Win 3 Nights at the Green Hotel Carlton

We want to start the New Year off with an eco-bang, and so we’re launching a new Green Home Contest. Low Impact Living and Joie de Vivre Hotels challenge you to make your home as green as you can! We’re going to reward the greenest home of all with a luxurious 3-night stay at the [...]

CA Study Cites Chemicals in the Home as Possible Autism Trigger

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While autism rates have been climbing at a frightening rate, its root causes have remained elusive.  Researchers at the University of California, Davis M.I.N.D. institute have concluded that the focus of autism research should shift away from genetics or accounting practices and toward the increase of toxic chemicals and infectious microbes in the environment, especially [...]