All Entries in the "Green Living" Category
Glass Countertops Edging Out Granite
If you’re seeking a clear alternative to granite as a countertop surface, the glass is more than half full — it’s overflowing with creative possibilities, in fact — thanks to the esthetic advantages and practical flexibility offered by thermoformed glass.
Created via a special process that uses extreme heat to mold flat objects, thermoformed glass is [...]
Learn How to Garden the Green Way – the Organic Gardening Workshop
How green does your garden grow? Learn how to grow it greener through the Chicago Park District’s Organic Gardening Workshop: Rain Barrels & Rain Gardening this Saturday.
Set to take place at Kilbourn Park & Organic Greenhouse, this class will demonstrate how to install a rain garden and harvest rainwater. Participants will receive a rebate from [...]
Modular Home Construction Gets Green, Fancy And More Mainstream
For some reason, the idea of having your new home built in a climate-controlled, systematic factory setting is unappealing to the average consumer. To many, it conjures up images of assembly lines and cold, factory-like precision and monotony of identical widgets getting packaged and shipped away. Those who are more open-minded and familiar with the [...]
Tour at Museum Displays Green Living
Want to see Chicago’s greenest home? Visit Home: Green + Wired at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Situated on the museum’s east side, the exhibit is a real, functioning three-story home that features the latest in eco-friendly living and is being touted as the greenest home in Chicago.
In its third year, the 2500-square-foot demo [...]
Does ‘Green’ Create Green and Sell Homes?
Green car racing, green travel, green eating: everything is getting a little greener nowadays. Surprisingly, builders are still slow to adapt to the greening of the new American home. Of those who do offer ‘green’ features in their homes, only 39% (according to a Professional Builder survey) of builders share with prospective buyers energy / [...]
