What makes a home Green? Standards vary. The soft definition is that a Green home, from how it is built, to how it is heated, cooled and maintained, should conserve energy and water and avoid or limit the use and generation of toxic materials. Zero Energy Building or Zero Net Energy Building (ZNE) has low-to-no […]
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The Art of Upcycling
Upcycling is “the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value…
Creating the Perfect Santa Fe
A great deal of ink and shutter snaps have been expended by writers and photographers in their efforts to capture the vivid allure of Santa Fe. The latest effort we ran across was “Celebrate Santa Fe” a piece published in Destinations Travel Magazine. I’m a bit wary of outsiders’ assessments of Santa Fe, or of […]
Santa Fe Green Scene: Hempcrete for Housing?
A home made of hempcrete –a mixture of lime, water and industrial hemp– is the most recent bit of brilliance I’ve found in my ongoing scan for creative housing ideas. Known by various trade names, including Hemcrete®, Isochanvreis, Canosmose, and Canobiote, the substance is durable, waterproof, fireproof, insect and rot resistant. Significantly, it is also […]
At Peace With Differences
Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that aren’t. –Anonymous Recently we had an tipping point experience that coalesced a lifetime of observations and encounters into a need to speak. A woman who has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) contacted us to help her buy a home in or […]
