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Urban Sustainable Living Tips

Urban sustainable living tips can help you live a more frugal and eco-friendly lifestyle no matter where you live. Sustainable living is not a fad, or something to do when you are short on cash. It is a...

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Making Money from Homegrown Produce

Making money from homegrown produce is a good way to add to the income on a small farm. How you go about it depends a lot on what you are selling, where you are located, and your personal preferences. Roadside stands to Pick your own farms...

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Slow Money

Once upon a time, investing in the stock market meant choosing a company you thought would do well in the world of commerce and then putting some of your own money into the game. If the company you chose...

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How To Build An Earthship

What do you get when you put together pop cans, glass bottles, old tires, chicken wire and concrete? Would you believe, it's a house? This would be a special earth friendly house design called an Earth...

9 comments    education architecture recycle
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Residential Solar Panels | Small Wind Turbines | Save on Energy Bills

Renewable energy is a hot topic in 2009, for home owners, economists and world energy planners. The renewables industry is expected to grow worldwide, with wind tech being the fastest growing product in the...

0 comments    solar solar power solar panels
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The Clayton Green I-Home-Mobile Homes go Green

For most people who has ever gone shopping for a home outside of a major city the question of living in a mobile (aka manufactured) home, especially if you live in the country, rears its sometimes ugly head....

1 comment    real estate energy energy efficient
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Dwarf Fruit Trees in the Home Orchard

When planning your kitchen garden consider adding a couple of dwarf fruit trees. These small trees grow very well in small, urban areas, and will produce alot of full size, fruit. Concerns with the food supply, its effect on the environment, and buying locally, it seems natural to grow your own.

3 comments    how to food gardening
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How-To Split Firewood

You should think about the size of your fireplace when initially cutting the wood. Wood stoves and the average modern fireplace will take a 16-20 inch log. Cut it as short as you can because short logs are by far easier to split than long ones. Cut it so that the ends are cut straight, rather than angled. This will make it much easier to split later.

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Marye Audet: Raising Livestock Hubs

I will index my articles by groups, and then finally, I will create a master index of links. I will post the address of that on my profile page and hopefully those who read my words will find more help, more quickly, and more easily.

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The Ultimate Guide to Making your Own Natural Cleaning Products

Never buy overpriced and toxic brand name products again!I hate buying cleaning products, all these fancy names, not to speak of the price tags!Homemade cleaners do work! Non toxic cleaners are not as...

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