How to dress green - 08/29/07 11:11 PM
Okay, here is one for the casual fans among us and the fashion mavens too. Same TIME magazine article as the last tips:
1. Wear "vintage" clothing. What they suggest is not just hitting the Goodwill (although there are those among us who love to do just that) but also to donate your clothes to organizations like homeless shelters or take them to resale shops who deal in "professional" clothes. Besides reducing the amount of materials used to produce new garments, it turns out that cotton accounts for less than 3% of the land farmed globally, but about a quarter of the … (8 comments)

Take a Right Turn - 08/27/07 09:54 PM
  Okay, this is amazing even to me, a dyed in the wool tree hugger! I was cleaning out some old articlea and I ran across aa April, 2007 issue of TIME MAGAZINE that had a feature story about things we can do to make a difference in Global warming.....I am not making this up--it is the April 9, 2007 issue with the penguin on the cover.
  UPS (yes, the guys in the brown truck) announced in 2004 that it's drivers would avoid making left turns. It turns out that they figured out they could reduce CO2 emissions and save millions … (7 comments)

Good Old Small Homes - 08/24/07 01:04 AM
 Just reread an article about some of the things that make New York City one of the "greenest" cities in the country. There isn't a lot of new construction there. There is great public transportation and driving is a nightmare--even the mayor takes public transit to work.
  Most people do not live in large homes. In fact they live in apartments. One of the pluses of apartment living is that heating and cooling costs tend to be lower because of the shared walls. People walk more in New York because things are closer together so thy get the bonus of exercise as … (5 comments)

 
Deb Hurt, ABR, e-Pro,Green, TRC (Realty Pro Albuquerque)

Deb Hurt, ABR, e-Pro,Green, TRC

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My blog is as much about a philosophy of life and living as it is about real estate as a business. E.F. Shumacher subtitled his book SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL "Economics as if People Mattered" In the real estate industry we realize that people matter and that where they live matters. We now also have a larger responsiblity, I believe, to get them to consider HOW they live. Everyone in the developed world using less energy and resources makes it possible for those who have access to neither to experience a better life and to make the difference between their being able to having a roof overhead or not or for their children to eat or not. 



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