My Green Glasses

Burying Buildings in the Landfill

Where I work, we bury construction materials in the landfill every day. Today, I gave a tour of the landfill with a school bus of second graders. In order for them to understand what a C&D (construction and demolition) Landfill is, I asked them to name things that could be thrown away at a construction [...]

Bucking the Trend on New Homes

We are surprisingly bucking the trend with our new home, as quoted by my husband. As we were putting some finishing touches on our house plan, an article was recently published on Yahoo! Finance called “The 10 Must Have Features in Today’s New Homes.”

It was almost like we wrote this article because everything on the [...]

Thoreau is stalking me with Walden

Yes I am an English major and I have never read Walden by Henry David Thoreau. There, I said it. Now you can throw things at me. I have read excerpts, but that doesn’t count. Now is the best time to read it, especially since I think Thoreau is stalking me. For those that are [...]

The House That God Will Build

Simplify. A word that is often used, but seldom acted upon. Once a year, most of us will look in our closets and clean out a few items from our past. Pants that are too small (although we are secretly hoping we can fit into them later), sweaters that are just plain ugly and shoes [...]