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Hi all,

 

My name is Liz, and I am the owner of Posergy.  It's a new company that my mom and I started.  We make all natural Personal Care Products for the Whole Family.  We have Mineral Makeup, All Natural Face Care Products, Himalayan Salt Products, Essential Oils, All Natural Soy Candles, and Much more.  We have been working hard to get this going, and will have our web site up and running in about a week.  I do have the catalog I can email to you if anyone would like a look at the products before the web site is up.  Please feel free to email me anytime.  earthscandle@gmail.com

 

Liz Bonner

www.posergy.com

For Beauty...For Health...For Life...For Earth...

 

Hi Green Huddlers!

 

In 1999 my husband and I left our corporate jobs (Clif Bar) and Berkeley (land of fabulous food) and relocated to what we thought was the middle of nowhere - northeast Missouri. In the past 9 years we have grown to love the prairie, the Midwest, Chicago, and the people here.

 

We joined Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (www.dancingrabbit.org), an ecological and sustainable-living demonstration community. We own 300 acres in a Community Land Trust, make decisions by consensus, share three vehicles in a co-op, and build our homes out of renewable or reclaimed materials. There is no religion and no leader - if one agrees to live by our six ecological covenants (no personal ownership of vehicles, recycle everything, use only renewable &sustainable building materials, etc)  and you can support yourself, you can pretty much move here. Of course, you'll have to build a house to live in first...

 

It is beautiful and quiet here. Amazing blue skies, fluffy white clouds and the most phenomenal thunderstorms ever. The birds wake us up at dawn, and the frogs seranade us at night.

 

That said, it is a lot of work. Natural building takes a lot of time - imagine taking hundreds of nails out of used lumber - but we're doing our best to slow down and enjoy our lives.

 

To make it easier for others to visit (right now visitors have to camp)  and to help members of Dancing Rabbit earn a living, Kurt and I are building a two-story strawbale B&B/Organic Cafe/Eco General Store. It is powered by solar panels and a wind turbine, and we have a 7,000 gallon cistern to collect rainwater. Please check it out at http://milkweedmercantile.com 

 

I look forward to reading your reviews and comments. If you have any questions for me, please don't hesitate to email me alline at milkweedmercantile dot com.

My name is Kay. I am the mother to one amazing little boy and a crunchy stay at home mom on a seriously tight budget (<25k a year). For other mama's out there you might know me on www.cafemom.com as KayMMIV. I own and admin a few different groups on there. I also have a blog about being green on a very tight budget, not just targeted at moms or anything, just names like it is because I'm a mom. http://green-mom.blogspot.com/

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I'm looking for help.  Own a strange home.  In the 70's a 2500 sq foot bomb shelter was installed underground in back yard.  Goes down about 30 feet.  Cool year around.  Not attached to house. 

 

I am looking for someone who has used thermal transfer by pumping air to house.  What worked and what did not.

 

Any thoughts?

Greetings everyone-

I would like to introduce everyone to catchadrip.com. We are a new company with a unique water saving product.  People don't realize how much water is wasted from their air conditoner drain hose.  This product could capture gallons and gallons of wasted water.  We are just trying to get the word out since it is a revolutionary idea.

Go green,

Penny Rix

Hello,

Hi All,

 

I just learned about Green Home Huddle throug my trusty google alerts and thought this would be a great community to join and to learn more products Iand even review anything susnstaibale 've own and tried! I'm originally from San Francisco and lived there for 20 years until I went off to UCSB for school! I never thought about going green until I worked for my company, and now I'm just a big green as I learned this lifestyle can be expensive!

Hello,

 

I am Gracia from NJ/Phila area. I just found this site today, while doing a search for Peace Cereal on the web. Great site, glad to be a part of this. Im and Admin Asst. for an environmental consulting firm in Philadelphia. My husband and I try to do our part when it comes to being green. I look forward to learning better ways to help our planet!

Hello,

 

I just joined this huddle.  I am grateful for the sheer wealth of knowledge here!

 

Welcome!  I'm new also.

Welcome to all new members.

 

Hi, I am Gissel from CA. I have been looking around this forum since from last two weeks and found this forum very informative. Hoping for good times here with mates.

Hi, everyone!

 

My name is Mota - actually a nickname. I was born and raised in Japan for more than half a century, and came here in north New Jersey 12 years ago - my wife's homestead. She is 6th generation of the family. So, the foundation of house was built in 1806 - it's a money pit!!

 

I am running my own business - import-export of machinery, general merchandise, etc. and recently I encountered one thing I really want to introduce to the USA. I have no farming or gardening background, but my wife is a master gardener. So, I know a little about gardening.

 

What I want to introduce is Electrolysis Water Agrigulture, which is becoming more and more popular in Japan. It will be a great help for organic farming and gardening. I created a new topic about this in WIKI yesterday. It will take few to several days to complete it, but please peek in the article whenever you have time. Any question is very welcome, and a copy of PowerPoint presentation is also available. Please feel free to ask.

 

Please do not get me wrong. I am not attempting to sell anything now. When this new concept is accepted, and become popular, there will be a business as a result.

 

Looking forward to hearing from you!!

Hi , I have no idea what you do here but it seemed fun ? I liver in San Marcos Texas. But I was born and riased in San Francisco and miss it big time...  I will ccome back at least everyday till I get the hang of it.  Those of you in SF please send FOG  

hello ,dear stine

 

my name is mario. it is neckname while i was in phillippines . I am an Iranian, now leving in tehran. you surparise !!!!!!!. i am vegetarian too , and i love green living . all my life try to live in hormony with nature.

i love photography too. I am a mountainer . I got very big thumb up for you .my real name is Masoud.

i am a dentist by eduction but , now I am am translator. there was time that i had a vegans restoran in phillippines, bagiuo city.Finally , i belive to comunicate naturaly we should look directly look into people`s eyes. so your pic is nice but i can not see your eyes.

see you soon.

Hello I'm MAP and I own a Design / Build Alternative Energy Company called M A P Productions. We design and build all types of systems  but generally customers want a PV Solar system to be designed and built. With all the tax credits and rebates going now is the time to get a system. Yesterday I generated over 24kWh of power for our home. We use about 15kWh average per day, so we put some in the "bank" to use another day when we need it. By "bank" I mean we spin the meter backwards, we only pay for the "NET" usage, or the difference between what we make and what we use. My 3.8kW system which costs about $30K has been operating over 10,000 hours and we have saved over 22,000 lbs. of CO2. Plus our electrical bill was $14.00 for the YEAR! I can put two more modules on my system and this would allow us to use another electric item like a plug in car.

MAP

hello green home huddlers,

name's xo.

i'm remodeling my home. i designed it over 8 years ago. still trying to finish it. somehow people think it's green. but i just think it is right.

the outside is made of recycled copper. it will become greener as it gets older ;) i have solar thermal transfer water heater with a heat pump that helps get the temp up to 120F when the sun can't do it. the excess air from the heat pump will keep my server (not purchased or decided on yet) and electronics cool. there's a computer that runs all the lights <vantagecontrols.com> and pumps and skylights. since i live in california and on a hill, i also have pv panels that create most the energy i plan on using. (right now i'm in major credit mode!) each room has some sort of natural light in it. during the day, you really don't need to turn on any lights. heating and cooling is done with a heatpump that is radiated through all the floors. i'm in the process of choosing green cabinets and flooring for some of my areas. ... more to come.

let's see, i ride a vectrix electric motorcycle. and my gas guzzler is my 2006 prius (it's my second prius.) there's so much more but i've gotta get back to work on my place. remodeling is so much work!

cheers!
xo

Welcome xo!

Looking forward to hearing more about your house and progress.

I am also using a air to water heat pump - hydronic heating in the floors plus fan coils for cooling and aux heating if needed. Not connected to the solar panel system as I don't think they produce enough hot water in the winter to be worth the investment. I will see more this next December though.

As for natural lighting we have one basement room plus utility room that require lights during the day hours. Lamps on the stairs and in the basement hall are motion detector lamps set to the lowest - they only come on after dark. 

Hey everyone.

The name's Chris and I'm an environmental engineering student (I hope to get into remediation with this) at the University of Connecticut.  I got my start into this stuff back when I was 15 working at a Boy Scout summer camp.  I got the opportunity to teach environmental studies merit badge and soon I was hooked.  My faith wavered a few times (my role model had a brief falling out with the cause back when "The Environmental Skeptic" came out, but he later learned it was BS; and again when I was looking for colleges and worried about doing a major that would have job and financial security), but I've come back to the path every time.

My next school year will be spent as the secretary of my school's gardening club (which is actually a small CSA now) and the brand new green building club (since my next room mate is the president).  I'll be living in a green learning community on campus known as EcoHouse.  I'll also be joining the campus's largest environmental group as well as the brand new Slow Foods club.  I hope to spend next summer either in Iceland (where I found an amazing study abroad program focusing on the science and politics of alternative energy) or Burlington, VT (which is a pretty green place).

This summer's plans include organic gardening in my backyard, lots of hiking, lots of loose leaf tea brewing, learning to cook, finding farmer's markets and eco-conscious food stores, and getting newer appliances in this home (fridge and front load washer are the top two priorities) even if it means spending my own money.

I was recruited here by Dawei from the YA forum, where I'm also quite new (going on 4 days now).

Welcome ChrisB,

I approve of your course of action, studying to become part of a solution, very much.

Running around and creating a fuss may attract many but the real solution to most anything is just hard work and in the case of climate the emphasis is on engineering.  

Hey UConn, my dad taught biology there briefly.  Good school.

Environmetal engineering is a great field to go into in terms of job security, I think.  There's a steady supply of environmental cleanup projects, and particularly if you study the design of renewable energy power plants, there's going to be tons of work in that area.

Sounds like you've got some cool clubs and groups going too.  And Iceland would be an awesome place to visit.  They get most of their power from geothermal and hydroelectric.  I'm jealous.

Hi there everyone here in this forum! Im Briana Morgan! I travel a lot. I would love to take part of the discussions here... and learn more also. Im looking forward of my participation here...

I am Frank Edwards. I spend half my life in Colorado and half in Mississippi so I get to experience hurricanes (winds over 100 m.p.h. for six hours at my Mississippi home in Katrina) and avalanches.

In 1980 I built one of the first fully passive solar homes in the United States. I no longer live in it but it still operates as planned.

I continue to be distressed by the strident tones of many on environmental issues. Sometimes I wonder if we have reverted to the middle ages where heretics were burned.

On the other hand, there are so many interesting ideas and people these days that I find it worthwhile to tip toe around the zealots.

I hope I can contribute and I appreciate the opportunity.

Welcome Frank,

I agree with your point about the strident tones - many in what I call 'the green mafia' are not tolerant of view points other than their own at all. You have to sort through the smoke and BS to find good information on many sites.

Another of my gripes is the quality of green blogging. Many of the sites are a mirror of each other - copying another site just to have something to post - sometimes giving credit and sometimes not. To much writing and too little thinking!

On many of the sites science and engineering seem to have little importance, PV cells facing away from the sun, wind turbines that generate power our of 2 or 3 mph winds, units that generate power by capturing energy originating from hydrocarbon sources (wind turbines on cars), wave power gets rave reviews even though to date it is a failure.

A new process comes out and is guaranteed by many to save the world. People don't realize these new ideas generally have a failure rate of 99%+. It is continued effort on the 1% that does good.

Many people seem to think something new will work just because they want it to work. The real world isn't like that and we do live in the real world.

Enough - again, Welcome!
Russ


 

Hey all,

My name's John and I inhabit the sunny shores of Great Britain (England to be precise). Currently I'm an undergraduate physicist studying at Southampton University, and I wish to learn a little bit more about climate change, and green culture. I think you've got these topics quite well covered on this site!

John

 Hi Ortin - John,

Welcome to the Green Huddler! We look forward to hearing from you in future posts.

All of us are here to learn - or at least I hope we are - sometimes I worry about me though!

There is quite a cross section represented here which makes it most enjoyable.

Welcome again,
The Green Huddler Team

Hello all, my name is Bob Dahse and I confess to being a black-sheep-in-the-family, very low income, do-it-yourself, homesteader sort of guy. My wife Larisa and I have been working our way closer to the Earth together for nearly 30 years. I found this site because someone in the huddle found a page about building your own solar food dehydrator on our website. They wanted to reprint it, and reading all the related posts has me now hooked. The only things that worry me are the site's emphasis on goods and gadgets, and the thought that I won't have time to answer posts that head my way. Our site, by the way, is http://www.GeoPathfinder.com .

Welcome to the Green Huddler Bob!

We have all types here - from quite green to those who would like to be a little green. Everyone is welcome.

Myself, I intend to enjoy my retirement years. I spent many years in somewhat undesireable locations around the world during my working years and now am having fun. Can't complain but they have yet to build a steel mill in the garden of eden or anything close.

I am sure some of our members/visitors are looking forward to hearing from you

Hi everybody,
I just recently joined and have been enjoying all the great information, tips, hints, and just the great sense of community from this site. I live in Atwater, Ohio which is thirty miles southeast of Cleveland.  I think it is awesome to be a part of something that can really make a difference for our world and our future.  I always enjoyed the science fairs the kids would have at school, and some of the things they come up with are amazing. I have found so many great green sites and I am learning new things all the time.  Now I get to show my mother a few neat recycling tricks that I learned. 

Thanks again for such a great site.

 Hi waseb2, Welcome and please ask your questions or give your ideas freely. Everyone is here to help each other.