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[VIDEO] Living Green Tip: Conserving Water At Home

[VIDEO] Living Green Tip: Conserving Water At Home
(Denver) In this week's Living Green segment, CBS4 meteorologist Jennifer Zeppelin shares advice on reducing water user at home.

[Video] Home Sweet Recycled Home

[Video] Home Sweet Recycled Home
The newest innovation in the "green revolution" is recycled homes. Mark Phillips talks to the resident of a home that has been built entirely out of shipping containers.

Small Strawbale: Natural Homes, Projects & Designs

Small Strawbale: Natural Homes, Projects & Designs
By Bill Steen, Athena Steen, Wayne Bingham

Amazon.com Product Description
This practical guide is filled with rich photos of homes, greenhouses, studios, sheds, open-air structures and more, each pulsating with unique yet subtle creativity. Both a pragmatic construction manual and a philosophical, artistic guidebook, Small Strawbale is an inspirational starting point for a strawbale dreamer, and a great source of information for those who are ready to get bailing.

Rebuilding A Green Community

Rebuilding A Green Community
After a tornado devastated Greensburg, Kan., residents and contractors came together to rebuild using green technology. Maggie Rodriguez reports.

[Video] Greensburg's Green Playground

[Video] Greensburg's Green Playground
"The Early Show" gang helps the citizens of Greensburg, Kan. construct a sprawling playground from scratch, which will benefit the community for years to come.

Building a Straw Bale House: The Red Feather Construction Handbook

To help our readers flex their DIY green spirit, we're going to start covering some useful books. First I'm going to start out with this great book about straw-bale construction. If you're not familiar with straw-bale construction, check out Wikipedia for a primer.

Building a Straw Bale House: The Red Feather Construction Handbook
By Nathaniel Corum

Amazon.com Product Description
"This book is a timely and important tool for the empowerment of communities facing housing deficits. The Red Feather project is extremely important; it is truly making a difference."—Jane Goodall

For more than a decade the Red Feather Development Group, a volunteer-based organization, has built and repaired straw bale houses for Native Americans. Somewhere along the way—and this was certainly not the plan—they created an architectural phenomenon: This inexpensive, environmentally sound, easily constructed, and downright beautiful form of building has, for good reason, caught the public's imagination. Here, Red Feather provides a step-by-step, easy-to-follow manual for would-be strawbale builders—indeed, they supply everything you'll need but time, energy, and lots and lots of straw. Informative sections on safety, design, tools, and materials, and case studies picked from over thirty-five Red Feather projects give a comprehensive overview to straw-bale building.

But this book is much more than a construction manual. It is also the inspiring story of Red Feather itself, a tale of community action and cooperation that suggests a can-do solution to the growing housing crisis on America's Native American reservations.

Solar Power Vs. Trees

Well it looks like trees come second to solar power in California. I'm still not sure if this a good thing or not.

[Video] Music industry goes green

[Video] Music industry goes green
The music industry is taking action to try and reduce the carbon footprint generated at music festivals.

[Video] Hanover tech fair goes green

[Video] Hanover tech fair goes green
As the world's biggest technology fair opens, the IT industry is under pressure to reduce its carbon footprint.

[Video] Holiday Gift Guide: Going Green

[Video] Holiday Gift Guide: Going Green
It's tough to be environmentally aware when shopping for gifts. Giving someone a carbon offset for their SUV is about as tactful as giving away a stick of deodorant. Here are some suggestions for environmentally themed gifts. (Nov. 28)

[Video] Holiday Gift Guide: Going Green

[Video] Holiday Gift Guide: Going Green
It's tough to be environmentally aware when shopping for holiday gifts. Giving someone a carbon offset for their SUV is about as tactful as giving away a stick of deodorant. Here are some suggestions for environmentally themed gifts. (Nov. 28)

[Video] Houses built on bottles

[Video] Houses built on bottles
Many parts of Bolivia lack sanitary services to deal with disposable products like plastic bottles and bags and the homes from recycled materials keep non-biodegradable products from ending up in rivers or strewn across fields.

Furoshiki Revisited

This is an older post but worthy of another presentation with the impending holidays lurking ahead of us.
Makezine directs us to a guide on Furoshiki, or cloth gift wrapping.
The Ministry of the Environment Government of Japan is has suggested that citizens use cloth gift wrapping techniques as opposed to paper, to limit paper usage and waste. Sounds like a cool idea for wrapping, and could potentially be used to fashion a quilt. Cool indeed.

VIDEO FEED: Tips on Going Green

The issue of global warming is leading to many people making small but significant changes in their daily lives.

'Green living' in the Netherlands

Green your home

Being earth-friendly doesn't require going solar or growing all your own food. There are plenty of easy ways to make a big difference.

The MSN real estate section includes ideas such as new energy efficient appliances, temp, water consumption, environmentally friendly cleaners etc. to make your home "Green".

Banning incandescent light bulbs

From BBC News:

Australia has announced plans to ban incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more energy efficient fluorescent bulbs.

The environment minister said the move could cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 4 million tonnes by 2012.

"It's a little thing but it's a massive change," Malcolm Turnbull said.

The decision will make Australia the first country to ban the light bulbs, although the idea has also been proposed in the US state of California.

Link provided by Make: (via BBC News)