Jennifer Chait

I have Stardust Glass Tile in my bathroom. A
beautiful handmade product which gets tons of compliments. The company is owned by a husband and wife team. They are solid people, very professional! I highly recommend using their tile if you're looking to make a bold statement in your home. They spent time helping us select colors and shapes and they were so great about meeting our time line and keeping is informed as the tiles were being made. I can't wait to purchase their product for my kitchen!

Check it out:
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Hello~

I just wanted to let Riverwired.com know about my recycled glass tile company called Stardust Glass, based in Portland, OR. www.stardustglasstile.com

We produce handmade, eco-friendly glass tiles made from 87-100% recycled post-industrial glass (scrap glass from window and door manufacturers) We also fuse our tiles in a glass kiln which causes zero emissions.

Things to know about recycled glass companies. Some fuse their glass tiles and some hand pour their tiles. For instance, Oceanside Glass, originally based in Oceanside, CA recently moved their whole factory to Mexico where they run their hot furnances 24 hours a day and pour hot molten glass to produce their tiles, which is less energy efficient and they have to export their product. They use only about 15% recycled glass content, while reycled glass tile companies like Stardust Glass, Sandhill Industries and Bedrock Industries uses a much higher recycled glass content and make the tiles in a very energy efficient process.

How to kill pests without killing yourself or the earth......

There are about 50 to 60 million insect species on earth - we have named only about 1 million and there are only about 1 thousand pest species - already over 50% of these thousand pests are already resistant to our volatile, dangerous, synthetic pesticide POISONS. We accidentally lose about 25,000 to 100,000 species of insects, plants and animals every year due to "man's footprint". But, after poisoning the entire world and contaminating every living thing for over 60 years with these dangerous and ineffective pesticide POISONS we have not even controlled much less eliminated even one pest species and every year we use/misuse more and more pesticide POISONS to try to "keep up"! Even with all of this expensive and unnecessary pollution - we lose more and more crops and lives to these thousand pests every year.

We are losing the war against these thousand pests mainly because we insist on using only synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers There has been a severe "knowledge drought" - a worldwide decline in agricultural R&D, especially in production research and safe, more effective pest control since the advent of synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers. Today we are like lemmings running to the sea insisting that is the "right way". The greatest challenge facing humanity this century is the necessity for us to double our global food production with less land, less water, less nutrients, less science, frequent droughts, more and more contamination and ever-increasing pest damage.

National Poison Prevention Week, March 18-24,2007 was created to highlight the dangers of poisoning and how to prevent it. One study shows that about 70,000 children in the USA were involved in common household pesticide-related (acute) poisonings or exposures in 2004. At least two peer-reviewed studies have described associations between autism rates and pesticides (D'Amelio et al 2005; Roberts EM et al 2007 in EHP). It is estimated that 300,000 farm workers suffer acute pesticide poisoning each year just in the United States - No one is checking chronic contamination.
In order to try to help "stem the tide", I have just finished re-writing my IPM encyclopedia entitled: THE BEST CONTROL II, that contains over 2,800 safe and far more effective alternatives to pesticide POISONS. This latest copyrighted work is about 1,800 pages in length and is now being updated at my new website at http://www.thebestcontrol2.com .

This new website at http://www.thebestcontrol2.com has been basically updated; all we have left to update is Chapter 39 and to renumber the pages. All of these copyrighted items are free for you to read and/or download. There is simply no need to POISON yourself or your family or to have any pest problems.

Stephen L. Tvedten
2530 Hayes Street
Marne, Michigan 49435
1-616-677-1261

When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.

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we saw it and we love it! wish it was available!

Thanks for the ongoing attention to this topic, RiverWired, and its never too early to start planning, that's for sure!

But here's something to think about; What do you start with?

Don't forget to plan for the reuse and recycling aspects of the project. The biggest oportunity for environmental savings during the remodel is the first step of the remodel process - demolition! Ironically, even though its the first step, its the most overlooked step in the planning process!

Check out my blog site: http://recycleyourhouse.blogspot.com/

I've got some ideas for you on reuse and recycling while doing a remodel. See:

YOUR HOUSE, YOUR RULES! Ten Ways To Ensure Your Home Is Properly Recycled & Your Construction Project Doesn’t Generate Needless Waste

Thanks.

Lorenz Schilling
Deconstruction/ReUse Network, Inc.
www.reusenetwork.org

Thanks, Ms. Chait & RiverWired for doing this piece about the deconstruction alternative to traditional crash & burn demolition.

You brought up one downside to deconstruction; that it takes longer is actually a big obstical this fledgling industry constantly faces.

Homeowners (or businesses) are understandibly focussed on planning their new home or building and are usually unaware of this alternative to traditional demolition. If they do hear about it, often times its in the 11th hour.

At Deconstruction Network, we often get calls from people who ask if we can come perform deconstruction on their home next week and they need the home down by week's end. Some even think the service might be free and that they can take a tax deduction too!

Well...

Needless to say, these folks haven't planned for the up front costs or time involved, even though they can often save money in the long run.

We're trying to make a more concerted effort to make green architects and designers aware of their vital role and responsibility to give their clients a heads up about their choices well in advance. Propert owners should consider the deconstruction option two or three months in advance of a scheduled tear down.

Often architects think this is something that should be handled by the general contractor and haven't considered the issue of timing. Asside from the timing, GCs aren't always as progressive, and even if they are supportive of deconstruction practices, often times they're not hired until homeowners are ready to build and the clock is ticking on the vacant property. Architects hold a very influencial role in the viability and success of deconstruction practices and most don't know it yet.

It's a little frustrating and a bit ironic when the first step is the process of construction is a mear afterthought, when lots of good can come from the resources in old homes and buildings.

Lorenz Schilling
Founder/President
Deconstruction Network

The problem with your four square box is that you have tilted the outcome to support the idea that it is better to take action, than to not.
You did this by collecting the most scary scenarios of the IPCC and the extreme global warming activists WITHOUT assigning the probability that they may occur to them.
While blithely throwing aside the possible problems associated with a world-wide economic collapse. As if the world wide economy is not tied to things like providing health care to people (bad economy, less able to do so) or feeding people. Or being able to respond to true disasters like the hurricane in Burma, the earthquake in China, the Tsunami in the pacific.
Wasting money is just like wasting resources, as a matter of fact, a good economist can tell you that money is a symbol for resourses. Just ask the Arabs if their resources aren't worth money.
As far as your nightmare scenarios goes, you can get the same sort of things from natural occurances such as an asteroid strike, or a super-volcano eruption.
Do you seriously think, in the face of the scientists that say otherwise, that sea levels can rise 20 feet in 10 years? Huh? And by scientists, I am talking about the same scientists that put together the IPCC reports. Or do you want to make your own nightmare scenarios without ANY credible scientific evidence to back it up?
Or how about the lead author in the IPCC report recanting the idea that AGW will cause more and stronger hurricanes? I think I heard you mention that hurricanes like Katrina might become the norm. Well, here's a news flash for you: Catagory 3 hurricanes have always been the norm, as far back as recorded history goes. And now you have someone that beat the drum talking about "More bad hurricanes" saying, well maybe not. And if they are stronger, then it would be 1 to 2%.
Here is the comment that pokes a hole in your silver bullet:

It is stupid to waste resources (money) combating something that only has a 1 to 2 percent chance in coming true. And the "draconian" regulations that it is O.K. for you, becuase you live in the USA, would result in certain death and disease (because of the lack of resources i.e. money) for literally millions, maybe more, as we recover the economy because the "rich" countries wouldn't be able to help and support them.

Good luck with your video. Let me know how it works out, I'm truly interested.

Regards,

Brian Claggett

When you pack-up to move all your stuff to your new place, rent reusable moving boxes like the ones made from recycled plastics at Rent-a-Box.

I love the people at USGBC. They are always ready to help if you have a question.