Building or finding your dream home is a goal for many of us. For me it is building a renovating the green home of my dreams. So, it is important to understand not only how to pay for our dream home, yet also how to plan for it. It is possible for you to have … Continue reading Dreaming Your Home
Erica Reiner with E. Leigh Designs, specializes in eco-friendly and non-toxic interior designs for every style and budget. Owner and creator of the Los Angeles based, interior design studio, Erica formed her business to help people create ideal residential, retail and commercial spaces. Because of her environmental expertise she made a targeted and purposeful effort … Continue reading Green Interiors – a Visit with Erica Reiner from E. Leigh Designs
Gabbing about financing for green home projects with Trisha McConkey of Associated Bank on the Green Gab. Trisha and Associated Bank’s experience and expertise with mortgages and loans help homeowners to finance their dream home, especially a green home. All types of home projects may qualify for green consideration – new construction, renovations to a … Continue reading Financing Your Green Dream Home
Because water is a limited resource which we cannot live without, it’s vital we keep learning and remembering to use water wisely. As water is integrated into almost every part of our lives and is used in almost everything we manufacture, water affects us on every level. And because water is so affordable and readily … Continue reading Water – Just Use What We Need
Ron and Cindy with Hoodle, share this online web portal to help homebuyers find their neighborhood for building a new home. With Hoodle, homebuyers can learn about neighborhoods with new home construction, as well as the builders building the homes. Hoodle helps new homebuyers learn about the homes in the neighborhoods, the amenities and the … Continue reading Find Your Neighborhood – Ron Williams and Cindy Rhinehart of Hoodle
Erika Boeing, systems engineer, entrepreneur, CEO, and co-founder of Accelerate Wind shares her mission of having “as many wind turbines on as many commercial rooftops as possible that are economically viable through the development of several inventions currently in progress.” Current wind turbines tend to be noisy, unsightly and expensive. Rooftop wind also struggles to repay the initial start-up … Continue reading Harnessing the Wind with Erika Boeing of Accelerate Wind
What does green living really entail and how can it help save ourselves? Join the gab about green living and consumer education for homeowners and residents to learn how to live greener. Green living can start with our buying choices and our behaviors, and education helps us know where to start. Through a little know-how, … Continue reading Green Living – Saving Ourselves
This year’s 5th Annual Metro East Home and Garden Show, led by Lisa Masters, was the biggest and best yet! Hosted by the Knight Stewards organization, a parent group of Metro-East Lutheran High School in Edwardsville, Illinois, the free two-day fundraising event hosted over seventy vendors displaying everything needed to update, renovate or improve the inside … Continue reading Lisa Masters with Metro East Home and Garden Show
As recycling is the 3rd R in “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle,” the next step is what else can we recycle. How can we turn “trash to treasure” or in keeping with the “R theme… Refuse to Resource?” Recycling is nothing new, Nature has been doing it all along. In William McDonough’s book Cradle to Cradle, … Continue reading The Third “R” – Recycling
Sheridan Foster, Founder, and CEO of Elemental Green “a digital media company with a mission to make green home building and renovation the status quo,” by connecting people looking for sustainable solutions with up-to-date, easy to understand, information, and green products that are readily accessible. Founded on the vision that “every home can be a greener home,” ElementalGreen provides … Continue reading Every Home a Greener Home with Sheridan Foster of ElementalGreen