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Category Archives: Greener Choices

A “Greener” Shade of Bathroom

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Greener Choices, Kitchen & Bathroom Remodeling, Project News Tags: bathroom, Bathroom Basin, Car Check, Clean Faucets, Faucet Water, Flush Toilets, renovation contractor, Toilet Tanks, Toilets, Top Toilet, Wash Basins No comments yet.

When anyone considers renovating their home, they probably think mostly of a more spacious living and bed room, a larger…
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Home Improvement for Fun and Profit

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Design Tips, Energy Saving Ideas, Greener Choices, Project News, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Remodeling Industry Tags: contractor md, home improvement, home improvement projects, Home Investments, Home Look, home renovation, home renovation contractor, Improve Your Home, Owner-occupier, renovation, renovation contractor No comments yet.

When it comes to Home Renovation, the biggest question you need to ask yourself is “why do I want to…
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Make your Home “Green”

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Design Tips, Energy Saving Ideas, Greener Choices, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Remodeling Industry Tags: contractor, Contractor Renovation, Current Space, Home Home, home renovation, home renovation contractor, houseworks unlimited, Professional Contractor, renovating homes, renovating your home, renovation contractor, Television No comments yet.

If you’re planning to renovate your home, don’t just think of “redecorating”, think of upgrading its efficiency as well. Make…
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Why You Should Hire a Professional Remodeler

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Architecture, FAQs, Greener Choices, Project News, Remodeling Industry Tags: business, hire, hire professionals, home improvement, houseworks, houseworks unlimited, investing, labor, management, mass media, profession, professional remodeler, professionalism, professionals, publishing, Remodeling, remodeling professionals, renovation No comments yet.

When you hire a remodeler, you are buying a service rather than just a product. That means that you are…
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Transparent solar cells let windows generate electricity

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Energy Saving Ideas, Greener Choices Tags: a solar, cell energy, energy, energy absorbing, energy conversion, environment, infared light, light pass, oerlikon solar, our solar, photovoltaic module, photovoltaics, physics, semiconductor devices, silicon thin film cell, solar cell, solar cells, solar panels, sun, transparent, visible light, yang yang No comments yet.

In the future, solar panels will no longer be restricted to the roof. You’ll be able to put them on…
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Green Remodeling on the Rise!

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Greener Choices, Remodeling Industry Tags: building engineering, construction, environment, environmentalism, green building, green contractors, green home, green home builder, green home building, green home remodel, green market, green politics, green remodeling, home remodeling, international builders' show, nahbgreen, national association of home builders, remodeling contractors, the green market No comments yet.

February 2012 – McGraw-Hill Construction, a part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), today released findings from a new Green…
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Fewer Consumers Are Buying Green Products

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Greener Choices, Remodeling Industry Tags: building a house, building construction, building contractor, building renovation, business, buying green products, construction renovation, consumer buying, consumer organizations, consumer report, green buying, green consumer, green home remodel, green marketing, green products, green purchasing, green remodeling, Home Improvements, improvement contractors, marketing, products building, professional remodeler, Remodeling, Remodeling Contractor MD, renovated, renovation company, sustainability No comments yet.

Survey finds that 65% of Americans have changed their green buying habits due to the recession. A new report has…
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10 One-of-Kind Building Techniques for Decks

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Architecture, Design Tips, Greener Choices Tags: architecture, awning, building deck, colorado deck, curved deck, dave kramer, deck, deck builders, deck building, deck design, design build homes, designing tips, games, human interest, justus lambros, playing card, recreation, ship construction, square deck, suit, techniques designed, tim stephens, wood plastic composite No comments yet.

Builders of award-winning decks typically don’t set out to snag honors and accolades, says Colorado deck builder Barry Streett; they…
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Department of Energy Updates Refrigerator Efficiency Standards

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Energy Saving Ideas, Government Affairs, Greener Choices Tags: auto defrost, cut energy use, defrosting, efficiency standards, energy, energy conservation, energy doe, energy efficiency standards, energy policy, energy saving home improvements, energy update, environment, food preservation, food storage, government standards, home appliances, national appliance energy conservation act, national energy efficiency, refrigerator, refrigerator efficiency, standard homes, technology, u.s. department of energy No comments yet.

Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released new minimum national energy efficiency standards for most new refrigerators, which will…
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Worlds Largest Solar & Coal Project

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Energy Saving Ideas, Greener Choices, Project News No comments yet.

Australian PM Julia Gillard announced approval for the world’s largest coal/solar hybrid power plant. Photo: CS Energy Australian prime minister…
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Harnessing the Wind

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Greener Choices Tags: electric power, electrical engineering, electrical generators, energy, energy conversion, harnessing wind, mph winds, power tax, residential wind turbines, skystream wind turbine, small wind turbine, turbine, wind energy, wind energy association, wind power, wind turbine, wind turbine dealer, wind turbine design, wind turbines No comments yet.

Tax credits and utility incentives push residential wind turbines closer to the mainstream. In the backyards of five houses within…
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Energy Star Beefs Up Requirements and Enforcement

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Energy Saving Ideas, Greener Choices, Remodeling Industry Tags: build construction, csa international, design build construction, efficient energy use, energy, energy conservation, energy in the united states, energy savings, energy star, energy star program, energy star savings, environment, environment of the united states, human interest, low energy building, low energy house, product certification, remodeling designs, renovation remodeling, savings design, star remodeling, u.s. government accountability office, united states environmental protection agency No comments yet.

The Energy Star program is overhauling its standards, certification process, and enforcement techniques—and its image—after the U.S. Government Accountability Office…
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Happy Earth Day

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Greener Choices Tags: award winning design, contractor md, design contractors, earth, earth day, economics, environment, environmental economics, environmentalism, first earth day, green economy, home improvement maryland, md home improvement, remodeling contractors, residential renovation, sustainability, sustainable energy, winning design No comments yet.

Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the…
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Deconstruction as part of your Remodeling Project.

Posted by Craig Knott, CR Categories: Greener Choices, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Tags: architecture, building materials, construction, construction demolition, contractors maryland, deconstruction, demolition, design build remodeling, environment, home improvement, maryland md, recycling, remodel home, Remodeling, remodeling contractor maryland, renovation remodeling, reuse, rockville md, sustainability, sustainable architecture, sustainable building No comments yet.

What is Deconstruction? The systematic dis-assembly of a structure in order to maximize the recycling and reuse of the resulting…
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