Category Archives: Cool Things

Del Mar Home Show This Weekend Jan 27-29 2012

San Diego’s largest Home Show offers over 450 exhibits of everything you need to remodel and improve your home, whether it is new flooring or a new roof, or a brand new shiny kitchen or energy saving solar energy. 

The Center for Sustainable Energy will have a booth there; come check out green and energy saving products. 

More information at: http://delmarhomeshow.net/index.html

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Smart Homes of the Future – Video

What to expect from smart homes in a galaxy not too far away.

Video: http://media.smh.com.au/property/smartest-house/smart-homes-of-the-future-2792380.html?&exc_from=strap

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Switching to Sustainable Landscape Care Brings a Bumper Crop of Benefits – Eat Your Yard

While doctors Elaine Hanson and Bruce Robbins were busy with their practices and raising three children, landscape care around their University City home was a low priority, handed off to maintenance companies. But when Elaine retired, they decided to match the garden and its upkeep to their green lifestyle that includes solar on the roof and an electric car in the garage.

Help turned out to be close at hand. Their son Jeffrey Robbins and his childhood pal Ari Tenenbaum are partners in Revolution Landscape

(www.revolutionlandscape.com) devoted to sustainable landscaping and organic garden care. Starting two years ago with a small side yard by the driveway, the duo has gradually transformed the ho-hum quarter-acre lot into a water-wise edible landscape weaned of chemicals and pesticides.

Read more at: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/20/organic-at-last/

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