compost / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...composters are a great way to recycle kitchen waste into next years tasty tomato and zucchini crops Some leaves can be added to vegetable compost, but larger quantities can be composted in a pile of their own. As with vegetable compost, occasionally turning leaves over with a garden fork speeds up the decomposition. C...

...composting, disposing of construction waste and other easy lifestyle changes to reduce your environmental footprint in these pages :  How to sort and dispose of compost and household waste  Use your kitchen waste as compost to grow food in a backyard lasagna garden How to dispose of construction waste responsibly...

...compost pile, it was brought from 7 °C to a blistering 62 °C. Not much more needs to be said that the video doesn't say. We love seeing stuff like this, if you come up with your own brilliant backyard inventions or hear of one, by all means tip us off.  

...composted. See our page here on how to set up a backyard compost. If there are local bylaws that prevent home composting or a lot of snakes or vermin etc that might wish to come and make a warm compost pile a home, with luck your municipality collects compostable material. If you have a compost bin or pile at home, dea...

Snowboarding pioneer and photographer Mike Basich built himself an epic Tiny off-grid cabin. Without a bedroom or bathroom per se, but equipped with a hot tub and chairlift, this gorgeous Tiny House is most perfectly situated in the heart of the Sierras.  © Mike Basich Basich began his career as one of the p...

Have you ever noticed that at times you can feel cold in your home even though the air temperature is exactly where you like to keep it? That's because, contrary to what most of us think, air temperature is not the main factor that determines human comfort in a building. To illustrate a point, let's start outdoors. I m...

...Compost or manure on top of leaves layers the lasagna Here is where you will need to add a thin layer of compost - sheep, chicken, sea compost, pick whichever kind of poop resonates with you or which smell you can most comfortably tolerate. Some compost is very strong, so if you have spare topsoil, mix them together or...

...composting toilets. Both require maintenance and neither comes cheap. The options for potable water are rainwater storage and treatment or filling up somewhere, also costly or a hassle. The options for power are installing solar panels and batteries or finding a place to plug in, like an RV park. More cost, more hassle...

Are tiny houses a good investment? That depends on how you want to live and how well they are built. Small homes are more affordable and eco-friendly that large homes, but are tiny homes on wheels for sale locally green? Read here to find out if Tiny Houses are good for the environment. It seems somewhat contradictory ...

In order to ensure comfort and get the most from the various systems of our house air needs to move around. Our air source heat pump and our heat pump water heater work together in boosting the efficiency, and the ceiling fan is a big part of making that happen. This video explains the relationship between those syste...

So what is a smart home? When paired with intelligent and connected home devices, the phones that most of us carry in our pockets can make our homes safer, more comfortable and durable, and reduce our home energy consumption by as much as 30% if carefully configured and specified. Heating systems and lights can be turn...