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A Passive House or a Zero Carbon Home — What’s the Difference?

A Passive House or a Zero Carbon Home – What’s the Difference?  Passive homes and zero carbon homes are both homes that meet a very high standard of energy efficiency. Although they sound similar, they are not the same thing. Green building design and green interior design can be confusing and jargon-heavy, and there may be many different roads …

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5 Ways to Incorporate Biophilic Design Into a Small Space

5 Ways to Incorporate Biophilic Design Into a Small Space Biophilic design is not just a new buzzword, it’s an intentional and scientific way of bringing nature indoors to promote healing and greater alignment with the natural world. Biophilia simply means the “love of life,” and biophilic design can be enacted on the macro as …

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4 Ways Your Home Can Be in Harmony With the Environment

4 Ways Your Home Can Be in Harmony With the Environment Are you building a new home, renovating a home, redesigning your interior space or building a new addition? Before you get started, you should be aware that most traditional building and design processes are harmful to the environment.  What about planting a garden? That …

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6 Steps to Creating a Convenient and Compact Kitchen Garden

La Jolla Back-Door Kitchen Garden Creation If you want to really elevate your plant-based (vegan) cooking, you will need access to fresh herbs, vegetables and fruit. A well-kept secret is that you don’t even need a big allotment or large vegetable patch to do this. For many people living in suburban and urban areas, backyard …

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