Monthly Archives: September 2010

Best ideas in green design for the home / Part Seven

This week, we have been looking at seven sustainable building designs and materials used for greener homes. They included: Earthships, hemp houses, passive buildings, earth-sheltered homes, recycled materials, salvaged materials and natural building materials. Today: Natural building materials There are … Continue reading

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Best ideas in green design for the home / Part Six

For the next week, we are going to take a close look at seven sustainable building designs and materials used for greener homes. They will include: Earthships, hemp houses, passive buildings, earth-sheltered homes, recycled materials, salvaged materials and natural building … Continue reading

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Best ideas in green design for the home / Part Five

For the next week, we are going to take a close look at seven sustainable building designs and materials used for greener homes. They will include: Earthships, hemp houses, passive buildings, earth-sheltered homes, recycled materials, salvaged materials and natural building … Continue reading

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Best ideas in green design for the home / Part Four

For the next week, we are going to take a close look at seven sustainable building designs and materials used for greener homes. They will include: Earthships, hemp houses, passive buildings, earth-sheltered homes, recycled materials, salvaged materials and natural building … Continue reading

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Best ideas in green design for the home / Part Three

For the next week, we are going to take a close look at seven sustainable building designs and materials used for greener homes. They will include: Earthships, hemp houses, passive buildings, earth-sheltered homes, recycled materials, salvaged materials and natural building … Continue reading

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Best ideas in green designs for the home / Part Two

For the next week, we are going to take a close look at seven sustainable building designs and materials used for greener homes.They will include: Earthships, hemp houses, passive buildings, earth-sheltered homes, recycled materials, salvaged materials and natural building materials. … Continue reading

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Best ideas in green design for the home / Part One

For the next week, we are going to take a close look at seven sustainable building designs and materials used for greener homes. They will include: Earthships, hemp houses, passive buildings, earth-sheltered homes, recycled materials, salvaged materials and natural building … Continue reading

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Keeping The Green Hub momentum on track

Now that the dust has been allowed to settle after last week’s announcement about the formation of Ontario’s green energy hub, perhaps it’s time to ask this question: What happens next? With the Chamber of Commerce Brantford Brant taking the … Continue reading

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Historic day for The Green Hub

All the public relations verbiage aside, today’s announcement about the formation of Ontario’s Green Energy Hub was nothing less than a true, historical moment. In a nutshell, aboard a boat on the Grand River, what transpired is this: The initiative … Continue reading

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Small world, big concerns … all about wind turbines

It is nice to know that our news judgment has not been eroded; that if something smells like a story, then it probably is a story. Case in point: the subject of wind turbines and alleged health hazards. This definitely … Continue reading

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