Austin Energy Green Building™ holds its one-day Green by Design workshop four times a year. Austinites preparing to build, buy, or remodel a home can learn how to improve energy and water efficiency, increase comfort, and reduce maintenance.
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George has been building and teaching healthy building practices for many years; come to learn about green building in general, or specifically to learn healthy building practices. More infor mation at www.geoswan.com
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President Obama and Congress are currently crafting an economic stimulus and recovery plan which could jumpstart an inclusive green economy and create hundreds of thousands of green jobs. The House of Representatives just passed a bold and visionary green stimulus plan, including $500 million to train workers for green-collar jobs. But your Senators need a
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Agriboard Structural Insulated Panels Agriboard Structural Insulated Panels (SIPS) are framing, insulation, and sheathing all in one! Standard SIPs have styrofoam as their core insulating materials, but Agriboard uses wheat or rice straw that is compressed into a panel. They reduce the amount of waste on any residential or commercial jobsite because the panels are
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Recycling Benefits By recycling, we are reducing energy and water usage, lowering pollution, improving air and water quality, strengthening the economy, helping to preserve landfill space, and saving natural resources for future generations. Trash Facts For every $11 Americans spend on food, $1 is for packaging. Recycling a four-foot stack of newspaper produces as much
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MCS – Multiple chemical sensitivities resources Chemicals In Your House PBS Trade Secrets – Corporate Washington and your health Natural Faily Online Chemical Reference Chemical Database (EnvironmentalChemistry.com) ConsumerLab.com – independent tests of herbal, vitamin, and mineral supplements EPA TRI Explorer Chemical Report Scorecard Home – Pollution Information per Zip Code Tox Town – Toxic chemicals
The chemical revolution of the past 50 years has altered nearly every aspect of our lives. Many of the products we rely upon every day – from plastic bags to computers – would not exist without synthetic chemicals. Most of us believe the chemicals in consumer products have been tested and approved by some government
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National/International Healthy Building Network Keep America Beautiful Renew America Rainforest Action Network National Audubon Society GreenPeace Friends of the Earth MacroNet Info Center for the Environ… EcoNet Surfrider Foundation Envirolink Texas Agriboard El Paso Solar Energy Texas Solar Energy Society Environmental Litigation Ass. Environmental Ethics Energy Clearinghouse Texas Tech University Inst. of Environmental Tech. Renewable
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If you are looking for a clean home environment, new construction, remodel, addition, or simply would like to know how to make your current space more environmentally friendly and/or non-toxic, consider looking up green building/remodeling methods, architects, designers, and builders. Clean Green Homes Green Building practices promote construction of buildings that are healthier for the
The quarterly Downtown Austin Emerging Projects map and database show both public and private-sector projects in and near downtown Austin that are currently under construction or in the planning phase. Downtown Austin Emerging Projects map – revised July 31, 2008 (485K PDF file) Downtown Austin Emerging Projects descriptions – July 31, 2008 (44K PDF file)
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This article is published at www.eurekalert.org on 26-Feb-2008 A research team of the University of Granada has managed to produce the most useful material to date to eliminate pollutants such as benzene, toluene and xylene, organic solvents widely used in the hydrocarbon industry and generated by road traffic in cities. The world-wide problem of the
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Look for locally made gifts – many gifts in today’s marketplace come from halfway around the world
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Question Kathleen wrote: I saw your e-mail address on the MCS-Global website. Just in case you could help us, I\’ll ask…. Do you know of areas in Texas where chemically sensitive people have done better with their health? I see your specialty is the actual housing, which we may need at some point. But right
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Question In http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/buildhealthy, Gretchen wrote: Hello, We have an acoustical ceiling in a mobile home…it appears to made from a paper product. We need to use a stain blocker, then paint the ceiling. We know of Bin by Zinser for stainblocking. The ceiling is now painted with ‘flat’ paint. Also, we are going to paint
