Archive for the ‘Waste’ Category

Save Money, Don’t Use Your Utilities

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

This building project demonstrates some creative thinking by eliminating the use of traditional energy and the energy consumed by municipal utilities to treat wastewater. Zero impact living may not be acheivable but this project comes close. Read how your next project can be built for less, operate for less and reduce the stress on the environment. (more…)

Bury It Or Turn It Into Gold? If it’s Obvious, Then Why….

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

does Canada’s ‘centre of the Universe’ (Toronto), not do the obvious. For all the flapping of the mouth that people in Toronto do to try to make the rest of Canada and the World believe that they are the only forward thinking advanced community in Canada; you sure couldn’t tell it by how they have chosen to handle what they leave behind themselves each day.

This story document what can be done if your city is motivated to solve a problem and continues to work at a problem. See how the garden grows and the house stays lit and warm in this interesting story of using waste to create energy from methane and gasify wood waste.

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