Now that we are in fall season, with some days feeling like winter, I am amazed at how much color still exists on in my mostly drought tolerant landscaped yard. This was the first year that I spent a lot of time planting, seeding, and gardening my yard and the aesthetic payoff has lasted months
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11/22/2008
I just completed an oline class about mold. (And unlike an earlier online course which took me 6 hours to complete, this one only took about 3 hours....both of which granted me 4 credit hours). Some of the more interesting things I took away from the course are: Mold is everywhere. Mold is lik
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11/20/2008
Next time you are in the market for furnishing your home, consider healthy, non-toxic options. If you want to clean up the air inside your home, you have to make greener, more healthy consumer choices when dressing up your house. Most people don't realize that the majority of furniture sold today
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11/19/2008
These days when anytime a person hears the word "economy" it is never followed with a feel-good response. Growth and economy are never heard in the same sentence (unless it is something like "the US (or global) economy is experiencing fast, negative, rock bottom declining growth." So I was happ
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11/19/2008
I just completed an on-line continuing ed class offered by Kaplan entitled Home Inspection and Environmental Basics. It covered an array of topics from radon, lead concerns and disclosure, formaldehyde, mold, indoor air quality, sick building syndrome, red flags when inspecting a home, water lea
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11/18/2008
For most people, it comes as a suprise to learn that a home's interior exposes us to 2-5 times more pollution than we are exoposed to outdoors. Given that most of us spend the majority of our time indoors, and that many buildings are tightly sealed for energy efficiency, creating healthy indoor
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11/17/2008
There are many simple things we can do to create a more sustainable home. Here are some ideas to Conserve Energy by Increasing Efficiency. Seal up small cracks around doors, electrical outlets, and windows and save up to 15 percent on your heating and cooling bill. AFM Safecoat provides effect
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11/16/2008
Does anyone out there (in New Mexico) know of an appraiser that specializes (or at least has a wide knowledge base) in green home appraisals? Green built homes -should- carry a higher value per foot than do "non-eco" homes but there are so few green homes out there to compare. In fact, The Nati
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11/11/2008
As a green builder with Albuquerque's Earth Origins Construction, I am constantly researching and pondering over the best products and processes to use to make a home both green and beautiful. (Although in my mind, anything that is sustainably built is, by principle, beautiful.) As a real estat
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11/10/2008
Sure, it can be tough as a self-empoyed Realtor, qualifying broker (with no employees to manage!), General Contractor, and green builder. Especially these days with the real estate market so stagnant. (Although must not complain as Albuquerque's market is not as bad as many other across the nat
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11/10/2008
