MyGreenCottage - National Green Home Building Company

jchait — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:00:00 -0400

If you’re looking to build green with total ease, you may want to check out MyGreenCottage a nationwide builder of custom green homes. This company is currently all the rage, and for good reason.

Nice green guy, Ed Begley, Jr. recently became the official spokesperson for MyGreenCottage which can only enhance the appeal of a company who is already going above and beyond when it comes to green homes. It helps me anyhow. It's looking like Living with Ed (HGTV) is not continuing - which has been the great depression of my TV year. It was one of the only shows I liked, so seeing good old Ed elsewhere is kind of nice.

MyGreenCottage notes that their main goal is to, “Create beautiful, safe homes that are healthy for you, your wallet and the planet.” The also build, “Any style, any size, anywhere.”

Perks of this green home building company include:

Consulting, free info about products, fresh home building, and green home renovations.

The company operates in a paperless and virtual environment – a virtually unheard of achievement among companies in general, but an excellent way to cut down on resource losses.

They employ a stunning array of green home options including solar, geothermal, energy star, fresh air systems, wind power, and more.

Offers an on-time, and even better, on budget guarantee.

Builds for around the same costs of a conventional home.

They also build strong and very fire resilient. MyGreenCottage uses a MGC fire retardant building system. You can watch a video where they actually blast a MyGreenCottage wall with a 5000-degree blowtorch. Pretty cool.

Visit the MyGreenCottage website and see news coverage, watch videos, learn more about their eco-products and design systems, and see great galleries of their homes. Some a little big for green, but keep in mind this is client choice. You could choose a smaller square foot home design with them to keep things truly on the green up and up.

Today’s bonus:

Check out this video - MyGreenCottage comes in to do a basic green home facelift on a standing home using zero VOC paints.

Living with Ed: Eco-Friendly Tv

deborah — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:00:00 -0400

If you haven't seen "Living with Ed" on HGTV, you're truly missing out. We all know of Ed Begley, Jr. the actor, but through "Living with Ed" we learn about Ed Begley, Jr. the green homeowner and activist.

The show, while being laugh out loud funny, also educates us as Ed greens up his property and teaches his friends and neighbors to be green. Nothing goes to waste in the Begley household. Not Ed's nasty office chair, not apple cores and not old dog bowl water as you can see in this hysterical video clip:

While it's apparent Ed is a bit of an...eccentric in Hollywood circles, it's clear his wife Rachelle Carson Begley has the patience of a saint. What I find refreshing is that after reporting on Hollywood luxury and excess for the past year, Ed and Rachelle have a small cozy home without a lot of unnecessary bells and whistles. How many homes do you know have an Academy Award above the cat box?

And though there are times Rachelle appears to be losing patience, it's clear she cares about the environment and has no problems doing her part to help take care of the earth. Check out her one thing everyone should do to be green. It's easy, it's inexpensive and we can all do it.

You gotta love a man who drives his environmentally sound electric car to the Academy Awards and isn't afraid to place a big red rain barrel in front of his home. If only we could get more of Hollywoods A (and B and C and D...) listers to follow the Begley's example. More civilians wouldn't be too far behind.

For more information on "Living with Ed" visit the HGTV website. I promise, you'll be hooked.

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