Renewable Roofing Options

Two Sides to Renewable Roofing Options When considering your choices in making your home as green and eco-friendly as possible, there may be one thing you haven’t thought about – the roof. The roof is just supposed to do its job and every so often, it has to be replaced. Homeowners typically replace their roof [...]

Modern Rugs to Accent Your Eco-Friendly Decor

Decorating is one of my major passions and I am always re-arranging my home, changing out decor and looking for ways to change my rooms up for a fresh feel. When we put our bamboo floors down, the livingroom instantly took on a new look. With the new look however, came cold floors. There is [...]

5 “Green” Tips for a Kids’ Bathroom

While most parents want to keep their child’s bathroom from turning green, there are some ways that you turn an ordinary bathroom into an eco-friendly “green” one.  If harsh chemicals and artificial odors are not something that you want in your child’s bathroom, that is understandable.  Try one of the five tips below to help [...]

Green Pest Prevention and Pest Control: 7 Tips for a Pest Free Home

You could be one of many fighting what seems like an uphill battle with household pests.  Ants, mice, bed bugs, termites and many other similarly unwanted intruders can threaten to take over your home no matter what the season.  It can be tempting to use more traditional extermination methods, but they can be very harmful [...]

How to Clean Your House without Harming the Environment

A clean home doesn’t have to be achieved with harsh chemicals that are bad for the environment. Here are some earth-friendly cleaning tips. If you think back, say, 50 or 60 years ago (or even longer), most cleaning products that are readily available today were not around.  Housewives made their own cleaning solutions with what they [...]

Benefits of Building with Steel

Once common mostly in areas prone to fires, hurricanes and other natural disasters, steel buildings are becoming a popular choice in mainstream construction. Steel is a superior, virtually maintenance free building material that will last a lifetime. Initially used mainly in commercial and industrial buildings steel is gaining popularity in residential construction as well as [...]

An Emergency Supplies Kit For Every Home

I’m writing this article on my battery-powered laptop, as my family and I wait for electric power to be restored to our home. It’s nearly 3 pm, and the power has been out since mid-afternoon yesterday. It’s been 24 hours so far. The power company estimates we’ll be back up before dinner time. The cause [...]

10 Ways to Go Green In Your Garden

Today’s post is from Rob Jones, online marketer and chief blogger for BuildDirect, an online flooring and building materials. In this post, Rob outlines 10 ways to go green when you’re gardening. In this 21st Century of ours, with ‘green’ and ‘sustainability’ becoming such important terms in so many areas of life, from industry to [...]

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