Archive for the 'Home' Category
Re-Thinking Suburbia- Time for a Retrofit
2 Comments Published by Seamus Ford June 30th, 2010 in Commentary, Construction/Remodeling, Peak Oil.Ellen Dunham-Jones speaks at a Ted Conference on re-thinking suburbia in a post fosil fuel world. This is a facinating and optimistic look into a possible future. While some would argue that the suburban model of development is a dead end and a future wasteland, Dunham proposes a possible future an urban lifestyle in the [...]
The Mike Nowak Show: Confidant to the Nascent Gardener, Organic Ambassador to the World
1 Comment Published by Seamus Ford April 15th, 2009 in Diet/Nutrition/Eating, Recycling, Social Responsibility, Water Ecology, landscaping.I was thrilled by how knowledgeable Mike Novak and I even got to even share about Low Carbon Home on the radio.
Turning Your Dog Into a Good Environmental Citizen
6 Comments Published by Seamus Ford December 21st, 2008 in Education, Recycling, landscaping.Our dogs and cats are our companions and we naturally want to take care of them. If you are a pet owner you probably give a lot of thought to what you feed your pet. What you probably don’t think about is what happens to the waste they generate once you dispose of it. Most people [...]
Plastic? Hah! We don’t need your stinking plastic
3 Comments Published by Seamus Ford August 6th, 2008 in Commentary, Plastic Reduction, Shopping.The next time you make a purchase and the clerk blindly puts your 2 item purchase in a bag…….REFUSE. More over educate them. Tell them that you do not want to take a bag that is going get caught in a breeze and wind up decorating an inner city tree this winter. Tell them that [...]
