Archive for Green Living

Gleaning Made Easy – Neighborhood Fruit

Fruit! We all Most of us love it, but not all of us have it and it can be so dang expensive.  Some of us have some, but want more variety and well, it can be so dang expensive.  However, have you ever noticed how much of it litters our sidewalks in the summer? The [...]

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One more reason Salt Lake City is so great! Best city for commuters.

We are always looking for reasons to share why are city is so great and we have yet another to add to the list.  We are the number 1 city in the nation for commuters according to Forbes!  I have been all over the country and I have to agree, but it is nice to [...]

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Earthly Inspiration Brings Forth Environmentally Friendly Designs.

I struggled with a title for this post not because I didn’t know what to say; I just didn’t know how to say it. I may have to change it later when I can finally find the words to describe the work of Tyler Blaine. So for now, I’ll just tell you about and show [...]

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Why I work the way I work.

Under my profile photo on my Facebook Fan Page is a quote of mine. My goals are simple. They are to educate everyone around me to the benefits of living well, eating well, designing well, building well and therefore leading yourself to a healthier, efficient life. It is how I feel and what I believe [...]

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The Modern, Green Garage of my Dreams.

As an EcoBroker I am often asked where to go for certain green things needed in remodels and additions.  Something I have often been asked about, but haven’t had a good source for was garages.  Unless you designed your own a green garage meant the builder used his lumber scraps…. Well, with this post over [...]

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Garbett Homes is building something, new, modern and green in Utah’s Daybreak community.

While spec home are just that, spec homes and typically built en masse in communities where everything looks the same, it is always refreshing to see when someone breaks the mold and does something a little differently now and then. Garbett Homes is doing just that in Utah and I love the change. In the [...]

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Blu Homes – Continued Growth in A Down Economy

It is no secret that real estate has been in a state of decline for a while now and that decline has extended into what seemed to be a booming rebirth of prefab homes. The loss of MK Designs was a good example of this when she ceased marketing her prefab homes. This loss was [...]

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Living Green in 9th and 9th. – 1048 S. Lake, 84105

UPDATE: A Home Energy Rating was recently conducted on this home and it came back with a HERS score of 55! Click here to learn more about what a HERS rating means. Living green in the city is not always easy to do when the inventory of green homes is as small as it is. [...]

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Want to garden, but your thumb isn’t so green? Help is on the way.

There is a new trend in the world and it is an exciting trend to me. People are growing their own vegetables again! From the die hard gardeners to the White House and everywhere in between American’s are picking up their shovels and their rakes and growing again! It isn’t so new to me since [...]

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EcoDrain – Make your cold water warm to heat your hot water less.

Quite some time ago I posted about the ReTherm drain water heat recovery system. It is a very cool system that uses the hot water going down your drain to heat the cold water going into your water heater. Doing so reduces the amount of heat needed to heat your hot water. Giving you a [...]

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