Green Money Saving Tips that Stick-It to the Utility Companies!

My push to “Build for the Environment” (the “Economic Environment”) underscores my commitment as a GREEN builder to continuously identify and employ wiser and smarter building solutions and energy-saving concepts. This is especially important as we head into the fall and winter months where increased energy costs are expected.

To define energy-saving solutions it’s imperative that we first shore up and understand what and where our energy costs are currently going. To do this, it’s best to employ a simple yet solid GREEN concept by “Doing the Basic Things the Best.” In doing so, we find that core energy costs generally derive from electrical and...

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When building healthy homes it’s imperative to maintain (amongst other things) pristine indoor air quality—which can often be accomplished by simply doing the basic things in the best way possible.

Sometimes when I dismantle homes I run across terrible problems that contribute to poor indoor air quality. The picture below is one of them. The blackened area on the 4x4 member is black mold mixed with water rot. This wood, which ran vertically against the supporting of a bathtub, was subjected to years of water damage stemming from a shoddy tile job that allowed water to leak against the wood. Can you imagine the toxicity associated with this? The owner of this house finally realized this problem after his children constantly...

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Next time you unleash a new product -- one that glimmers with eco-friendliness and sustainability -- on the market, ask yourself, "Can the consumer who doesn't unplug appliances before vacations, who throws out moldy plastic containers instead of washing them and who uses paper towels like they're going out of style fit this into his/her lazy green lifestyle?"

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