So, it’s been awhile since we did one of these round-ups. We’re due. Here’s the green we’ve been writing elsewhere that may interest Tree Hugging Family Readers.
Building, buying, or remodeling your own green home:

The best green real estate site!
Reclaimed & Salvaged Home Building Material Use
What Makes A Building Material A Green Choice?
Home Wind-Power Turbines Going Mainstream
35 Ideas for Building A Greener House
Will $100,000 Build A Good Green Home?
Green Building – How Much Would You Guess Is Going On?
Green Homes for Less Money

Home & Living:

4 Green DIY Alternative Energy Home Projects
How to Flush Your Toilet …read more

As promised, Peggy and I have an Earth Day event running all month. We were trying to come up with what to do here for Earth Day, and that’s a tough one for us. We could blog green – but frankly we always blog green. How we could blog greener seemed to be pushing it.
That said, we put a call out to our b5media friends and asked them to write about green topics, from the perspective of their blog for a day. This is cool on many levels. You’re going to get to know some of our pals blogs, and …read more

Let’s see what you you may have missed this week…
Instead of a green audit, this week we looked at green yard renovations. We checked out: Composting for Soil Health, Greening Your Lawn, and Choosing the Right Plants.
Make Your Own Dowel Vase Cover
Recycled kitchenware in amazing colors.
How to test your dishes for lead
Bake a greener birthday cake plus some great cake recipes.
Where to get used coffee grounds for your garden – and why in the heck you would want to.

14 Ways You Can Love the Earth
Great green architecture links
Free Green Home Poster
We hugged (and learned about) the Cheetah …read more

I have a nasty flu. Nice Valentine’s Day surprise, huh? I’m not feeling very lovable but green architecture almost always makes me happy – so let’s go there.
Besides this blog, I also write Offbeat Homes for b5media. I write a lot of green architecture posts there that I’m torn about – i.e. should I post it here or at Offbeat. It’s hard when you write something sustainable and have two blogs the post would fit. That said, if it’s about a house, Offbeat almost always wins. Except today. I thought for Valentine’s Day, I’d round up a good bunch of …read more