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Google Blog Search - Green stories for June 28, 2006
June 28th, 2006 by Ryan JohnstonHere is the first of our new daily format of short bits of green building related goodness, all found via Google Blog Search. Please subscribe to our XML feed with your favorite news reader and leave your comments/suggestions here on this story.
Google Blog Search - Green stories for June 28, 2006
Put your energy into saving energy this year
Putting energy into saving it [www.madison.com/wsj]- Manufactures and markets energy-recovery ventilators, will be the first Midwest company to receive a Green Globes award from the Green Building Initiative of …”
Shopping for items for your eco-friendly home?
Create an environmentally friendly shopping policy [www.newzrover.com]: “make smart choices when shopping for food is the key to the success of any healthy diet plan. Learning to recognize the … Of course, the logical place to start the healthy shopping trip to the grocery store is at the produce section. …”
Beware of that general contractor about to knock your house down!
Contracting disaster! [www.ramsayhome.com]: We are happy with our new contractor and the project has started to show signs of life again. I have avoided talking about the situation in detail as I was really hoping that things could be addressed and settled. As the situation has become worse, I have decided the right and honourable thing to do is to warn others about doing business with Marcello Spoletini (info@urbantechhomes.com) and any of his contracting and construction companies: Urban Tech Homes Ltd. and Green Tech Construction.
Funders have seen the light with energy saving construction
Investors see the green in building [westnorth.com]: “… Investors have thought of how to clean up the picture in the building industry-source of, say some, … Green developer extraordinaire Jonathan Rose, of New York, … Perhaps the most promising is the $100 million Green Living Fund, …”
Thinking of building green? Here are some tips to save money with your project
Building the green way - how to save [www.internafrica.org] : “Although they look like regular structures, green buildings are designed to have less negative impact on the environment, be healthier, boost the productivity of workers within, and have lower overhead costs. They also yield a greater …”