Category: Green Building
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Portland Oregon Giving You $50 To Plant A Tree
Can one tree make a difference? Well to find out it won’t cost you anything if you live in Portland, Oregon. Every tree planted in Portland contributes to cleaner rivers and streams. So, if you plant a tree on your residential property, you can receive a rebate of up to $50 for native trees. Receive…
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How To – Manage Your Property In Fire Zone Areas To Reduce Danger
No matter where you live fires that start outside of your home can effect your home. If you live in the country you could have a brush or field fire. If you live near a park or wooded area a forest fire could cause you problems. If you live in the city homes around yours…
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Google Is Mowing Their Grass With Goats
In an effort to reduce their use of gasoline to mow the fields around their buildings google has decided to bring in a herd of 200 goats every few weeks and let them eat the grass. Unfortunately the cost is close to the same, something that could be done away with if they reduced the…
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Things You Can Do For Earth Day That Will Also Save You Money
YouRepair has been reading a lot of info about Earth Day and much of it is removed from our own families and homes. Many of the ideas are great and if you have the resources and time to do it then you will be helping but others are pretty useless. So far we have seen…
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Tumbleweed House Company – Selling Homes Smaller Then An Average Shed
A few years ago we took notice of prefabricated home builders and one of the strangest has to be Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. Tumbleweed sells shed sized homes most only offering about 300 square feet of space. You do the math thats 18×18 feet square. Just a little larger then a large garden shed and…