FEATURES
Bathroom Basics: Save Water, Use Recycled Materials
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Low-Flush Toilets
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Environmentally Friendly, Sustainable, and Recycled Products for Your Home‘s Interior
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Buyer Beware: Not All “Green” Cleaners Are Truly Green
Master Recycler Paulette Rossi provides us with insights into understanding what we are buying as so-called “Green” cleaners, and how to make our own.
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GREEN BUILDING
Getting Started Can Be Biggest Challenge in Going “Green”
Here are a few suggestions for making the entry into the sustainable building industry, and one local contractor's experience in getting started.
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Green Building Materials and Products: From the Roof Down
An overview of green home products.
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Re-Building Green:
Easier Than You Think
Deconstruct, reuse, recycle, and use sustainable products to convert your remodel into a green home.
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What Is Green Seal Certification? Or The Many Shades of Green Paint Certification
Read about how Green Seal Certification works.
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Green Incentives Programs and Agencies
Learn about the Energy Trust, Energy Star, Green Seal, and the EPA WaterSense programs.
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Frank Loyd Wright's Usonian Houses, Back to the Future
Local Usonian homes: One designed by Wright, one designed by an apprentice of Wright, and one designed by a couple inspired by Wright's Usonian vision.
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It's Easy Being Green
Found treasures transform a kitchen remodel and a new dentist's office.
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Can You Be Your Own Plumber? Yes, With the PEX System
Basics of using the PEX tubing system for new construction or retrofitting.
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Green Source: A Source for Green Building Materials
Green Source Eco Home + Garden specializes in recycled and environmentally friendly
green building materials.
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Truax Builder’s Supply 62 Years Providing Doors and Windows
Family-owned business specializes in windows, doors, door hardware, storm doors and windows, and custom screen doors.
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Construction Consulting Can Save Money, Time — and Headaches
Local Construction/Owner-Builder Consultants provide their knowledge and experience to help homeowners make their next home improvement project a success.
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Staining Wood Decks 101
How to prepare your deck surface, select the right stain, stain your deck, and make your stain last longer.
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Five Steps to Take When
Buying a Tankless Water Heater
Mike Filbin of A-Boy Supply offers tips for buying a tankless water heater.
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Discovering Portland's Art Deco Heritage
Jack Bookwalter provides us with a tour of Portland's art deco homes and buildings.
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How-To
Replacing a Front Entry Door
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Venerable Vintage
Rideout Reclamation gives new life to old wood.
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Three Hot New Sustainable Finishes for the Home
From the 2007 USGBC Greenbuild Conference and Expo.
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DEPARTMENTS
New Architectural Salvage and
Antique Shop Opens in Portland
Architectural salvage-hounds in the Northwest have a new destination for discovering recycled treasures.
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News
• New Green Products and Catalog
from Schoolhouse Electric Co.
• Efficiency Washers Clean Up on Savings
• Compost Bin, Kitchen Scrap Collector, and More
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• The Latest Dirt...
Two Green Organic Garden Products
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Solar Now! is heating Up in Oregon
• New Lumber Product Made From Sunflower Seed Hulls
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• MetroPaint Recycled Latex
Now Certified Earth-friendly
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Paintbrush That Cleans in Seconds!
• Ecologically Sound Insulation
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