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Homeowners tips on how to make homes located in the wildland urban interface more protected from the threat of wildland fire. Target audience: homeowners in the wildland urban interface. This video was produced by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry and the University of Tennessee Video and Photography Center

The CORE Home stands for Continuous Omnidirectional Radiant Energy, and is a home design that completely heats and cools itself, takes fewer materials and time to build, and offers unprecedented safety from natural disasters.

Goff sends Carter home to calm down
Chris Carter’s shadow cabinet ranking is hanging by a thread after he was sent on indefinite leave for behaving badly.

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www.jimsimcoe.com Eco Consultant, Jim Simcoe, shows homeowners how to green up their home. Shown on San Diego Insider Magazine, Channel 4

The EcoFabulous Home was designed by Kanau Uyeyama Architect Inc. As a firm, we have been researching eco-friendly solutions for many years. In 2008 we put all our knowledge to the test and designed and built the EcoFabulous Home (1000 sq.ft., 400sq.ft. deck) as the Feature Home for the British Columbia Home and Garden Show. There is a living wing (kitchen, dining, sitting) and a bedroom wing (2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms). Eco-friendly solutions included such things as 100% recycled paper with zero VOCs for kitchen and bathroom cabinets, cedar deck, siding and spa skirt, and other sustainable woods, CFLs and LEDs, Hydronic heating system with each radiator with its own non-electric thermostat 95% plus efficiency gas fired condensing boiler supplemented with solar panels, integrated home control system. www.prefabuloushomes.ca

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Pecks in the city: Chickens come home to roost … in your backyard?
Chickens are the home gardeners’ new best friend. If you follow “eat local” movements, you may be aware of the current interest in keeping chickens at home. Many municipalities…

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Tom Zeller Jr., editor of the Green Inc. blog, goes downtown to learn more about “Sierra Club Green Home,” a Web resource for eco-living that was unveiled at a luxury green apartment building.

This video shows the highlights of a “green” home transformation. This ranch home was turned into a modern eco-friendly home. The video highlights several green home remodeling tips that you can do to not only save you money but also help the environment. More information can be found at www.greenandsave.com