> As I prep my yard for curb appeal for potential buyers, I see I have a lot of work to do! I have two compost piles in my fenced off vegetable garden. They are just large rings of wire I found in the shed that was here when I bought the place over 11 years ago. I have recycled this wire time and time again for compost piles. To me, my fenced-in kitchen scraps, grasses and weeds are beautiful, practical and earthy! Now I have to think objectively like an outsider, though, and they aren’t so pretty. I wish I had a set-up like this!
> I’ve been traveling quite a bit the last couple of years to visit my daughters away at school, and I noticed the potential waste in hotels. I’ve even written about it. Since I don’t frequent hospitals (thank god!), I never considered how they can be more eco-friendly, but being large buildings with large staff and many patients, the potential for waste is also large. Here is one hospital that has embodied not only my green ideas of an energy efficient building, but also of efficiency for staff and patients. People are important, too!
> My 16 year old daughter has to create a PowerPoint on the economy in a green society for her Environmental Science class. She called me yesterday to ask what future technologies she can include. I told her that buildings are the largest consumers of energy, so more efficient building methods need to be employed. I suggested she talk about net-zero energy homes, since they have not caught on in a big way yet, but they need to!
> I am a small-home advocate, and I have been working on a blog post about it for a couple of months. Information and ideas keep coming, so it is never finished! Here is a great story about a musician living in 600 square feet in New York.
