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Keeping Warm, Keeping Cool: Keeping the Goldilocks Rule

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Insulation, sealing and ventilation can sound like boring subjects, but they’re not boring if you’re living in a house that doesn’t have them. Anybody who could tell Mary Ebbets how to solve the problems with her new house would have certainly had her and her husband’s attention, especially when their new house was being... Read More...

Keeping Warm, Keeping Cool: Natural Ways and Unnatural Consequences

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Mary Ebbets never thought she’d want to be back in her old leaky farmhouse. It had taken her and her husband years to save up the money for a new house, and a lot more time to get the new house built on another part of their farm in Eastport, Maine. She loved her... Read More...

Project FROG Greens School Construction

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An architectural firm, Project FROG, has come up with amazing prefab structures that fulfill green building dreams. With a third of American students housed in dingy, VOC-emitting trailers, Project FROG promises to change the way schools house our children -- not only greener, but faster and at a low price. Read More...

GREEN BOOKS

Water: Our Most Precious Resource: by Marc Devilliers. This highly readable report on the looming global water crisis is amazingly informative on water issues around the world from China to Texas.