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Chapter 13: Windows and Exterior Doors

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

10.13.08 | Mapquest told me I was 21.67 miles from my house but I was actually in buy local by locals ecstasy. Last week I spent the afternoon watching my doors and windows being fabricated and I am so excited I can scarcely contain myself!

Grand Rapids LEEDs the Way

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

10.6.08 | Grand Rapids, MI, was named the greenest city in America by Fast Company Magazine. The city leads the nation in the number of LEED-certified buildings per capita.

Chapter Eleven: The Junk Man*

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

10.6.08 | I am devastated; I had hoped to see my first official junkyard dog up close (I wanted to experience for myself how mean they really are) but them there puppies have been thrown out of work; they appear to be victims of the new economy and have been replaced by cheaper-to-operate electronics. Bummer.

Chapter 12: Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

9.29.08 | With all the minerals in this state, ya'd think there'd be some kind of decent stone to use for vanity countertops, shower walls and floors. Alas, stone is not one of the Arizona 5 C's (cattle, citrus, climate, copper and cotton). A friend is a project manager for a stone fabricator and she assures me there is stone in Arizona, only it is either completely inappropriate for bathroom use (soft sandstone) or so outrageously beautiful and expensive that the likes of me should never even dream of acquiring it (onyx).

DIRTT Takes a Stand To Save the Sharks

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

9.22.08 | After packing up its impressive assortment of Angle Walls, modular kitchen/java center components, interactive 3-D software displays, and other product innovations that it will show in Toronto this week at IIDEX/NeoCon Canada, DIRTT Environmental Solutions Ltd.staffers will return home to Calgary with no time to rest. The company is planning a decidedly different event for the following week a major gala fundraiser on Thursday, Oct. 2, for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS).

Turning Green into Gold

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

9.15.08 | Electricity is our most widely used form of energy. It touches every aspect of our lives. Yet, despite the importance of electricity to us, few people understand the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity.

Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

9.15.08 | So this is where old concrete comes to die. It's just after dawn and I am standing near a gargantuan pile of broken concrete. Jim corrects me: used to come to die; now it comes here to be reincarnated. Wow, Hindu concrete; that's cosmic, Man.