Habitat for Humanity recently announced their first LEED Platinum house in conjunction with students and professors at Drury University’s Hammons School of Architecture in Springfield, Missouri. That’s quite the achievement for the self-titled Drury University Sustainable Habitat House, since there’s only 44 houses in the nation that have achieved LEED Platinum. The newly certified residence is located in Habitat’s for Humanity’s Legacy Trials subdivision north of Springfield, but they are looking to incorporate similar affordable green homes on a national scale.
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My pod? The Jeanine corner of the Earthwatch world involves itty-bitty blinking blue lights, a jungle of plants, traditional weavings in screamin’ neon. Camel-hair Persian rug stretched out on the floor. Mirror ball hanging in one corner of the ceiling, gen-u-ine crystal in the other. Cheeky West African doll lounging in front of books with too-long titles. “Wag more, bark less;” and “be the change you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi) tacked onto the shelves. Plus more assorted bling. Such are the decorative solutions of a displaced (Northern) California gal, who transported herself to the middle of a tiny New England mill…
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Halogen-Free CPUs
Chip-maker Intel has announced that is has started shipping four halogen-free Xeon processors (series 5200 and 5400). The chips are functionally the same as the previous versions, and they are drop-in compatible. What’s Wrong With Halogens?
Halogens might not sound that bad because we’re familiar with the word (all those lamps), but the Halogen family includes fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine. “Halogens are highly reactive, and as such can be harmful or lethal to biological organisms in suffic…
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There are goats in them there hills! Goats, I tell you!
There really are goats in the hills, at least in Los Angeles. Yes, the 2nd biggest market in the United States has gone rural and invited a herd of hungry goats (is there such a thing as a goat that isn’t hungry?) to help maintain the wild brush that grows so rampant throughout the city.
Apparently the emissions from chainsaws, mowers and other instruments of wildfire prevention are some of the biggest contributors to the smog that all of L.A. knows so well. The goats are a green alternative.
The goats, which are rented (also available for weddings and birthday parties), don’t ask for much, just a patch of overgrown weeds, some random tin cans and a place to wet their whistle. They also like a good nap.
What a great way to go green and feed some goats in the process, it’s a win-win. Just watch wear you step.
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photo: USGS Just a quick update to a post done back in July on the geothermal exploration rights on several Alaskan volcanoes being put on the auction block. Mount Spurr, a snowcapped 11,070 foot tall volcano about 75 miles west of Anchorage was the first one up and Ormat Technologies is the lucky winner. The Reno, Nevada-based company paid $3.3 million for the right to investigate the geothermal power potential of 15 of the 16 tracts being offered for lease on Mt Spurr, 
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