The R.E.X. Project now complete

I have been following the REX project from it’s very first blog post in. It is a inspirational story of a home transformed and the results are magnificent.

In December of 2007, HGTV star, Shannon Quimby begun the transformation of an uninhabitable Portland, OR cottage into a family home. Instead of simply razing the structure and starting new, Shannon was committed to recycling the entire cottage. There was not a restricted dumpster on site.

As construction continued, many bits and pie…

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Don’t remodel your kitchen, cook in it!

A recent article by Elizabeth Razzi, in The Washington Post, offers up some tips to help weather the current economy. Lots of good ones, such as making certain you keep up with basic home maintenance to avoid bigger problems later on, checking out your phone services and cutting ones you don’t need, and with the holidays coming up, toning down your decoration budget.

I particularly found that one amusing: “The latest thing in kitchens: less remodeling, more cooking.” I love that something…

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Love from China: illegally forested wood products

As you wander through Wal-Mart and J.C. Penny and run your hand by a lovely varnished Mission style oak kitchen table set for only $200.00 do you ever wonder how they manage to price such a pretty item so cheaply? Is it shoddy construction? Is it worldly workers paid a pittance?

Or is it wood chopped down illegally in Russia and shipped to China for use on a variety of wood products? Bingo.

China is the largest importer of logs and exporter of finished wood products, and it gets all that …

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Will the “green bubble” sustain?

I was listening to NPR yesterday and there was a story about the burst of the “green bubble.” Like the housing bubble and the Net bubble before it, investors are more wary of funding green technologies than they were a couple of years ago. The spiraling market doesn’t help much.

Because of lean times, instead of embracing alternative energy which will cost more up front and deliver savings by day, citizens are expected to hunker down with their coal and fuel burning devices until the m…

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Ripple’s NEW LOOK Gift Pack

If you missed your chance to win a Ripple shower timer a couple of months ago, now whether the perfect moment to pick one up and give one too! Ripple Products is has just released the NEW LOOK Gift Pack designed to get you clean and conserve water.

Each gift pack contains a digital shower timer, a lovely glycerin soap, a hemp exfoliating glove and a reusable toiletry bag. The blue star timer is featured in that picture but plus available is the yellow duck, green house and turtle. The set…

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Safe sex toys revisited

A while back we posted about sex toys that could be cancerous. And soon after, considering we saw that you seemed to be interested in that subject, we posted about toys that were safe and where you could get them.

Like most things there is always more to learn about the safety of your sex toys, both in terms of chemicals and handling. Violet Blue is a sex columnist, blogger, author and podcaster of all things sex. (A note to parents, her site does contain some nudity, you must be 18 to en…

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A dictionary for chemicals and their dangers

Breathe in bleach for a few minutes, or even a few seconds, and something in your brain should communicate to your body (and vice versa) that that is dangerous for you. But why? That’s my four-year old niece’s favorite question and whether you’re anything like her it may be your question as well.

There’s a little thing called the Material Safety input Sheet that outlines the reactions a specific chemical will have with anothermaterial and under what conditions the chemical becomes dangero…

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