http://www.homegardengreen.com Greening your Home and Garden Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:37:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Seifert House by Bau Kultur architects in Austria The UK is going to require that new homes be carbon emissions neutral by 2016. One of the ways that this target can be achieved is by using passive solar building design (English Wikipedia page). This can be used to keep a ... http://www.homegardengreen.com/2008/12/save-energy-with-passive-heated-homes/ Dozens of companies will compete for the Saltire Prize which has been set up in Scotland to attract green technology projects that could bring better access to cheap energy, reports the Herald. The competition challenges participants to create innovative devices to generate cheap energy from the sea, with the winner receiving ... http://www.homegardengreen.com/2008/12/interest-soars-for-scottish-green-project-that-could-help-access-cheap-energy/ Wondering how to recycle your tree once Christmas has come and gone? Rest assured, “O Tannenbaum” has plenty of life left in those lovely branches once he’s finished sprucing up your home. The National Christmas Tree Association is a great resource for all of us eco-minded types who want to ... http://www.homegardengreen.com/2008/12/how-to-recycle-your-christmas-tree/ This is a post about a blog, 365 days of waste , and the remarkable man behind it, David Chameides, an award winning cameraman who lives in Los Angeles. About a year ago, (339 days at the time of writing to be precise) he decided to collect all the waste ... http://www.homegardengreen.com/2008/12/365-days-of-waste/ General care Winter care As cold nights bring the final leaves tumbling from the trees, rake lawns, sweep paths and patios, and pick up leaves from borders and rock gardens, where their soggy mass can smother tender alpines. Leaves also provide shelter for slugs and snails, so clear them up without delay, ... http://www.homegardengreen.com/2008/12/december-jobs-in-the-garden/ Eight web sites, in no particular order,  with a green bias that will keep your kids informed and entertained. 1. National Geographic Kids The National Geographic children’s site is a great resource, which focuses on topics like animal migration, the environment and how it affects the wildlife around us. There are plenty ... http://www.homegardengreen.com/2008/11/green-websites-for-kids/ There are lots of ways to make your home greener, and not all of them will cost you money. But for the more ambitious projects, such as installing solar panels, it's worth checking if you qualify for any grants. People are turning to renewable energy sources for many different reasons. Energy ... http://www.homegardengreen.com/2008/11/grants-for-green-energy/ Building getting city's first 'green roof'Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - 53 minutes agoChicago now boasts several hundred green roofs. Smith said Louisville has lagged behind other regions in green building design, in part because of ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/9-0&fd=R&url=http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20081128/NEWS01/811280434/1008&cid=0&ei=yB0wSZLYC5CoNvPHuCA&usg=AFQjCNG0qYTFx02R95Mvv4NpO-4nwx-YAg table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/3-0fd=Rurl=http://www.bradenton.com/living/home/story/1061481.htmlcid=1275445130ei=j2cwSYOiK5vOMpvRhCgusg=AFQjCNH9RTkeD2ziUq51bfLoUr8eIiAVgAbHome/b and garden news and notes/abrfont size=-1font color=#6f6f6fBradenton Herald,nbsp; United Statesnbsp;-/font nobr8 hours ago/nobr/fontbrfont size=-1Author Kimberly Delaney wipes away the complications of bgreen/b cleaning with the do-it-yourself guide quot;Clean bHome/b, bGreen Home/b.quot; The book aims to ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/3-0fd=Rurl=http://www.bradenton.com/living/home/story/1061481.htmlcid=1275445130ei=j2cwSYOiK5vOMpvRhCgusg=AFQjCNH9RTkeD2ziUq51bfLoUr8eIiAVgA Church's Thanksgiving meal includes touch of homeGreen Bay Press Gazette, WI - 4 hours agoHe was among the more than 50 people who took advantage of a home-cooked Thanksgiving meal served at the church, 425 Cherry St., Green Bay, ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/9-0&fd=R&url=http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20081128/GPG0101/811280642/1207/GPG01&cid=1275017042&ei=FgcwSfvKFaTMM6XhpCY&usg=AFQjCNFAs24Hav1CdLjlxh9Xygal6zJ4Aw