Green Isn't Good Enough

Planet Natural – Store selling natural garden products

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:58:57 +0000

Check out this great online store for natural garden products to help you be friendly to the environment while having a great lawn and garden at the same time. I live here in Bozeman, MT where they are located and have used their products to keep my garden and lawn healthy while controlling weeds naturally. Check out all of their great products and in you live here in Bozeman, MT stop by their store to see all of their great products.

http://www.planetnatural.com/site/index.html

Sunrise solar powered attic vent

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:07:08 +0000

Great solution to moving air through your attic during all times of the year. This is the best one that we found on the market so far and it was very easy to install on the roof. With the template provided and having the recommended tools, this should take your 2 to 4 hours to install. The solar powered fan provides cooling of attic spaces in the summer, which prolongs the life of your roof and reduces heat transfer to the rest of the house keeping it cooler. In the winter, the unit moves air through the attic to keep it free of moisture and also prolongs the life of insulation and prevents water from condensing in the attic causing damage. A great way to get active air movement without paying an electric bill over the lifetime of the unit. Check out their products.

http://www.sunrisesolar.net/

Phoenix Evolution – Heating, DHW and Solar in one unit

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:36:47 +0000

The Phoenix Evolution from Heat Transfer Products looks to be a great all in one device for you home heating, domestic hot water, and solar preheating. Everything is preplumbed for you so all you have to do is hook it up to your hot water heat system, your domestic hot water system and you can even have one with an internal coil to preheat your tank water with an outdoor solar panel. Looks to be a great system that will work well in cramped utility rooms and take the guess work out of plumbing a solar hot water system effectively. Check out their other heating products as well.

http://www.htproducts.com/phoenixevolution.html

EPA Climate Change Indicators Report

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:47:41 +0000

EPA just came out with an 80 page report to disseminate the scientific information on Climate change to the public in a understandable and clearly presented format. Please educate yourself and then those around you about human induced climate change and what are the signs that the Earth’s climate is changing rapidly.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/indicators.html

Jaga Radiators

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:57:27 +0000

How would you like your radiators to look like this in your home? Do you live in a home with old style cast iron radiators and a non condensing boiler to heat them up. Well here is an alternative if you are thinking of upgrading your heating system to something much more efficient. Jaga has come up with a new type of radiator that is engineered to give off more heat at lower temperatures. This increases the efficiency of you heating system while providing the same kind of comfort. Check out their many cool designs and models of radiators that will really spice up your interior.

http://www.jaga.be/Default.aspx

Viessmann Boilers

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:50:46 +0000

Just attended a training on Viessmann Boilers and controls at local distributor here in Bozeman and it was really great to see such an amazing product coming to market. Their 200 series boilers actually sense incoming air and gas to the combustion chamber and then fine tune them to the conditions that are present. This means that gas quality and air pressure can change and the system adjusts both to get the most efficient burn. Their 200 series boilers also has an internal card that can be changed for high altitude installations so that you don’t have to derate their boilers like other manufacturers. Meaning that the btus on the boiler are the same at any altitude unlike most boilers that lose efficiency at higher altitudes above 5000 ft. Check out their great products which also include solar hot water systems.

http://www.viessmann.ca/en

Watersense Certification and Fixtures for Homes

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:31:36 +0000

The EPA has come out with a new certification program to test and label water efficient fixtures and watering devices to save water in and outside buildings. The program tests each device and certifies that it is at least 30% more efficient then the current standard and that it actually performs well also. Currently the EPA certifies toilets, faucet aerators, bathroom faucets, urinals and shower heads. They also have plans to add kitchen faucet swivel aerators and landscape irrigation controls. A typical family of 4 in the United States used 400 gallons per day. If you had a home with all Watersense fixtures in the home plus used native landscaping and used efficient dishwashers and clothes washers, then a family of 4 could cut their water use to 160 gallons per day. That is a huge savings. Check out their program and if you are thinking of replacing fixtures or building a home, then please consider Watersense and save yourself money.

http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/index.html

Sunburst Unlimited’s Gardens from Garbage

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:16:29 +0000

Mike and MJ from Great Falls, MT have started a revolution in their hometown of getting schools, grocery stores, and neighborhoods to begin turning garbage into gardens. Through their nonprofit Sunburst Unlimited, they have begun a quiet revolution to starve their landfill and use that organic waste for much better purposes. Not only are they diverting alot of waste from the landfill but once it is composted using bokashi and effective microbes, the waste will be ready in 3-4 months to be applied to gardens to enrich the soil. So not only are they saving companies, their city and their neighbors money but also providing them with an easy way to create compost for community and backyard gardens through out the city. Maybe even with the idea of selling this compost to make the program revenue neutral.

Check out their cause and read the article that I have provided a link to below.

http://www.signaturemontana.com/

Sunnovations Pumpless Solar Hot Water System

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:02:36 +0000

Solar hot water systems without pumps and controls could really make installing and using the sun to heat water much more simple. Sunnovations has developed a new product using a passive geyser pump that generates pumping action using just the heat of the sun. This is a closed pressurized system to regulates its own flow rate and automatically shuts down when temperatures get too hot. Would love to try this system out here in Montana when it becomes available and hope that their real world testing goes well. Check them out and I will let you know when the product becomes available.

http://www.sunnovations.com/

Cold Composting with Effective Microbes

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:54:21 +0000

For those of you looking for a super easy way to compost your kitchen and yard waste. Then it is time to look at effective microbes to do all of the work for you. In this cold composting system, which works anaerobically (without oxygen), there is no turning of the compost to cause decomposition. You just apply the effective microbes to the organic waste from your household and then let the microbes do the work for you. I have set up plastic lined compost bins in my yard using discarded pallets. I just screw 4 pallets together into a box and line it with either weed cloth or in my case some left over tarps I had from building my house. Then I found some 5 gallon buckets with tightly sealing lids to start my compost from the kitchen in. As I add organic waste the bucket, I spray a little activated EM1 or bokashi to the bucket. Once full, I let it sit for 21 days to let it ferment in the tightly sealed bucket, then I dump it into the outdoor pallet compost site. I usually keep adding waste from the yard and other neighbors for 3 months. I keep the pile covered with carpet or a tarp to decrease oxygen to the pile and let it sit for 90 to 120 days after my last deposit to the pile. Then I start a new compost pile in another pallet constructed bin. After the time is up, I take the front off the bin and wheel the waste to my garden beds as really rich dark compost. No turning just have to wait. If you get enough material from neighbors, you can produce all the compost that you need for your gardens. Check out their website and videos and Youtube.

http://www.emamerica.com/index.php

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