In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to share a compilation of a few of my favorite recent environmentally friendly posts here on Active Rain. These posts share information on how the Green movement is making its way into the real estate business as well as simple ways in which you can incorporate more eco-friendly practices into your daily life.
Incorporating Green Practices into your real estate business
In Going Green - Eco Friendly Staging Project draws attention Jennie Norris from We Stage Sacramento shares interesting ways to stage a home using environmentally friendly materials.
In Weird or What?? Edible Landscaping is Smart!! Bonnie Westbrook of Grand Rapids, Michigan talks about the benefits of using edible plants for landscaping.
Tammy Stone of Grand Rapids, Michigan shares with us Why Southern Exposure is Important for a Green Home and the benfits of energy efficient construction with her post What is ICF Construction and How Does it Provide an Energy Efficient Home?.
In this post, janeAnne from Ashville, NC shares a whole systems approach to green development in "He's designing seven entirely new and entirely GREEN cities with A Comprehensive Plan for Eco-development.
Brian LeBars from Pleasanton, California shows us how to brighten up our lives with environmentally friendly paints in his post Help sell your home Green- Low VOC paints.
Andrew Stone shares a quirky yet compelling story of a man who inspires and empowers people to become homeowners in the truest sense of the word in his post Would you live in a home made out of relish trays and frame corners? Recycling at it's best.
Incorporating Green Practices into your everyday life
In their Eco Tip Of The Month- Simple Ways To Kick Your Oil Addiction! Nestor and Katerina Gasset of Wellington, Florida share tips reducing environmental impact by changing from petroleum based cleaning products to more natural ones.
Anthony Clark of Tulsa, Oklahoma says It's Not Easy Being Green.... wait, yes it is! In this post Anthony shares simple, cost efficient ways to reduce your environmental footprint every day from reducing paper waste to getting your Starbucks in reusable travel mugs.
Andrew Stone of Salt Lake City, Utah introduces us to GreenYour.com in What would you like to Green today? Find out how at Greenyour.com. Type in what you would like to green and the site gives you tips on how to get there.
Michelle Montalvo from Coral Gables, Florida shows us how baby steps can make a difference in her introduction to her green blog How Green Are You? Baby Steps to A Greener Lifestyle.
My post 6 Easy Money and Energy Saving Earth Day Tips shares some quick easy ways to save money and energy around your house throughout the year.
I hope you enjoy reading these informative posts as much as I did. Happy Earth Day!
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Hi Bonnie...
You mentioned one of my heroes...William McDonough when you pointed out my post...He is making a HUGE impact on the way we think about healthy living environments all across the WORLD...Just one thing...janeAnne is from ASHEVILLE not Nashville, NC =)
The whole systems approach to green development in "He's designing seven entirely new and entirely GREEN cities with A Comprehensive Plan for Eco-development. is something I think REALTORS can use in discussions as a great jumping off point...