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Some green things about our home Photos

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  • This is our home. Our home faces south and the big windows up front gather light and heat from the sun. This is our home. Our home faces south and the ...
  • Snowshoes are one of my favorite ways to get to work. My commute is very short - less than half a mile. My New Year's resolution is to snowshoe, walk, bike, rollerblade over 100 times to work next year. It will be better for the environment and like many Americans I'm fatter than I should be - so the exercise will do me good. Snowshoes are one of my favorite ways to get to ...
  • This is Kevin with his Toyota Prius. A hybrid vehicle that gets about 45 miles per gallon. This is Kevin with his Toyota Prius. A hybrid vehicle ...
  • Here is our composter where we put most of our organic waste. I'm putting some coffee grounds and a pear core in today. In a year this will turn back to a good soil nutrient. We had a party with a couple hundred people and were able to compost most of the waste Here is our composter where we put most of our ...
  • These are solar panels for hot water. Snow is over them right now and the sun isn't out but the snow will fall off and heat the water These are solar panels for hot water. Snow is over ...
  • We have a ground source heat pump for heating and cooling of the house. It uses the ground temperature six feet under the ground (which is close to a constant 50 degrees Fahrenheit) to start the heating or cooling. It then moves the heat with an air conditioning process. We have a ground source heat pump for heating and ...
  • Here is our dog Goldie laying on tile floor that is made out of recycled auto glass. These tiles are very strong and we haven't had even a chip in them over the past 14 years since we built the house. Here is our dog Goldie laying on tile floor that ...
  • This a picture of one of the roof tiles on our house. They are made from recycled rubber and look like slate tiles from a distance. They are guarenteed for my lifetime. After 14 years they seem to be working fine. This a picture of one of the roof tiles on ...
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