http://adeepergreen.com Getting greener one step at a time Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:48:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear Ask-A-Brekke, Are there any ways I can heat/cool my house greenly without too much effort/cost? Thanks! Home heating and cooling is always a bit difficult to do if you are not interested in putting in a lot of effort or money. One of the best ways to insure eco-friendly climate ... http://adeepergreen.com/?p=135 So after my last installment of Ask-A-Brekke I got a lot of questions. I will do my best to answer them all. I promise. But today I am tackling one a received from a friend through text "Do a post about indoor composting and why I should bother." Now those of you ... http://adeepergreen.com/?p=134 So last night a received a text from a friend asking which was a better choice for heating your home, wood or coal. So I figured now was a perfect time to return to my blog and post an Ask-A-Brekke :-) So, without further ado, which is better to heat ... http://adeepergreen.com/?p=133 So I am currently in Sweden visiting my brother John. He is studying in southern Sweden for this semester of school. So far I've been enjoying myself, we walked around in Copenhagen (not in Sweden, but close to where my brother lives in Sweden) yesterday. Today we are on a train ... http://adeepergreen.com/?p=132 originally posted on examiner.com Living in the Great Lakes region it's easy to take water for granted. Most of us don't think about the fact that not only do we have abundant water, but we also have abundant CLEAN water. Unfortunately, clean water is not something that all people have access too. ... http://adeepergreen.com/?p=131 Safer Pest Control Project is co-sponsoring a showing of a Chemical Reaction on March 20th at Columbia College. This is a great movie that follows a community in Canada that eliminated chemical pesticides, and how that effected their lives. It also explores how their experience effected lawn care in North America. Check ... http://adeepergreen.com/?p=130 originally posted on www.examiner.com So the US Department of Energy ranks that Great Lakes region as a great place to build wind turbines. The region is especially well suited to handle offshore wind installations. The wind near and on the lakes is comparable to the wind on the great plains. This would ... http://adeepergreen.com/?p=128 Over to the No Impact Man blog and read the short essay on progress. Also, add this blog to your feed reader or your e-mail alerts, because there is always something worth reading there. Additionally, I don't think I mentioned this before. But last year the No Impact Man Movie was ... http://adeepergreen.com/?p=129 Indonesian street kids find rescue in organic farming from Voice of America. Now this story is inspiring to me in many ways. Of course the fact that it is giving kids with little hope for the future skills that they can use to make their own success is fantastic, but I ... http://adeepergreen.com/?p=127 originally posted on examiner.com So there has been a lot of noise about Asian carp in the news over the last couple of months, and I am certainly no exception. But today I started thinking about how the Asian carp issue really sheds light on the entire problem of invasive species. The ... http://adeepergreen.com/?p=126