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| Cover page cuverture Turning the Tide On Climate Change (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Man-made climate change is here: A reality we can no longer ignore. We see the impacts in our everyday lives, from extreme superstorms, to heat waves, to massive wildfires and droughts.
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Reality Drop's mission is to reveal the denial and deception around climate change, spread the truth, and clear the way toward real solutions.
We're long overdue for a national conversation about the carbon pollution that’s warming our planet. We can make this conversation happen… and we can relentlessly call on our leaders to move us toward a clean energy future.
We have something on our side that no amount of money can buy: Reality.
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Reclaim your Mud Room
From Trish Holder's Greenspiration Home blog, writer Kim Whitley-Gaynor tells of her and her husband's bold green-building mud room project which incorporates a whole bunch of great reclaimed vintage materials:
We live in the land of sugar sand. Sand so fine that it’s almost impossible to keep from tracking it indoors.
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| Reclamation yard: bricks, stone, chimney pots, fountains, and more... (Image: Wikipedia) |
I never thought I’d need or want a mudroom. I thought mudrooms were needed just for snowy, muddy areas. But it occurred to me that this might just be the solution for our almost daily cleaning predicament.
So, my husband and I started discussing adding on a small mudroom to the back of our house. Last summer when it was time to start our window, insulation and siding replacement project, we knew that the time was then or never to build on a small mudroom.
Reclaimed Materials for Building:
We knew we wanted the room to be large enough to be functional and roomy enough, but small enough to keep costs low. We knew we had plenty of reclaimed lumber from our very first old home salvage project to cover most of the material costs, but we knew we would still had to factor in other expenses like labor, electrical supplies, lighting, insulation, roofing, and yes, more lumber.
After we considered everything, we realized that the pros far outweighed the large con of having to clean the floors every other day, so build it we did.
We finished the addition months ago, but have taken our time furnishing and finishing it. (When you’re salvaging old houses 5-6 days a week, there’s not a lot of time or energy left over. So frustrating when you’re wanting to get some home improvement projects done!) Plus, I wanted to find the perfect antique bench, and while I wanted it to appear instantly - (Yeah, I am impatient sometimes) - it took months to find. READ MORE
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One Man's Trash...
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In a statement quoted from them on Wikipedia, the organization describes their purpose as follows:
"The Goal of Discarded Dreams, Need not be Nightmares is to repurpose 1,000,000 discarded mattresses by creating a consumer product. We have outlined a strategy to implement/produce the design. We see this as an amazing opportunity to create a product that not only appeals to consumers, and alleviates landfills of unwanted mattresses, and creates a product that begins to provide solutions to the key societal issues of homeless and unemployment."
Visit this link for a higher resolution view of the diagram. There are loads of ideas to consider. Time for me to get working on that roof right now. Happy up-cycling y'all.
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