In case you missed it there is another media related link now for Turning Houston Green. I would like to Thank Lani Rosales (@laniar) and Omar Gallaga (@omarg) for the opportunity to be quoted on National Public Radio. Greening up the Residential Housing Industry is a popular topic and I am very honored to have [...]
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Green Houses – Rice University
September 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I always try to keep you all posted on events coming up around town and this one is coming up real soon! For those of you that have missed it in the past – Green Houses – the course that is taught by Michael Strong and Brent Nyquist at the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies [...]
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Container Gardening in Houston
September 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
With a container garden, you can grow something even where space is limited, add instant “curb appeal” to your landscape, or just ease into gardening cautiously. And, of course, every container garden can also be a small contribution to the environment. Drying Size matters when picking out the container. A large pot for several plants [...]
Tags: container gardening·houston tx·no room for garden·plants·small gardens·spices
If You Build GREEN – They Will NOT Come
August 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
The flurry of Green Home Building activity over the past couple of years has been really interesting to follow. When I first started writing about it and getting designations/certifications – Most people still had no idea what it meant. People weren’t tired of the word GREEN yet. But this flurry of activity has brought sparkles [...]
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Business Directory Now Open!
August 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Well, over the past 2 years I have been contacted by many, many companies wanting to be part of the Turning Houston Green Service Providers page. Houston has seen unprecedented growth of companies offering various services that are considered to be ‘green’. While I am NOT a fan of greenwashing, I actually talk to everyone [...]
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Announcing the E Newsletter!
August 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Subscribe to Houston’s only Green Real Estate Newsletter that goes out once a month
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If We Don’t Call It ‘Green’-What Do We Call It?
January 14th, 2009 · 20 Comments · Uncategorized
Often times I like to read about trends in the Marketing Industry. One of the topics for a few months now has been a recommendation for people and Corporations to move away from the term ‘Green’. I find this interesting because I was once told: If you are looking for great ideas in advertising Real [...]
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Hey Brad Pitt! Share Those Designs!
January 3rd, 2009 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Being interested in all of the Green Building movement, I try to keep up with all of it pretty well by reading various sites and staying up to date on new construction techniques-products- etc. Something else that I try to keep up with are just really interesting projects. One that has caught my eye from [...]
10 Ways To Maintain Or Improve Your Home Value
December 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Green Products, Uncategorized
We are always looking for ways to increase, or at the very minimum, maintain our home value. Well, I’m going to let you in on a little secret- It doesn’t always have to break the bank. Sometimes it just means taking a closer look at things when we go to do those normal fix ups [...]
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Hypothetical Remodel- Larger Master Bathroom!
December 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Green Houston Topics, Uncategorized
Now we have the Energy Audit out of the way, we can look to see what it is going to take to make the Master Bathroom a little bigger and to get it updated to what you want. Let’s take a moment to remember what we are working with. The 2300 sq ft home built [...]
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