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Somebody really broke the traditional building box with this one! If you read our article about toxins in concrete, this article builds on that…to offer a slab solution that doesn’t even use concrete. Concrete slabs have been preferred for building...
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We’re hearing more and more about this material, and had to investigate. What is hempcrete and why is it gaining more attention as a hempcrete as a bio-based alternative to conventional building materials. Hempcrete is made of the inner...
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This was news to us and maybe to you…concrete manufacturing has evolved over the ages, and the components of modern concrete, besides being energy and carbon-intensive, include some potentially toxic materials. We’ll try to explain it, starting first with the...
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About three thousand years ago, an ancient book prescribed a plant to be used in cleansing homes of mold, skin diseases, and ritual purification. What was the book and the plant? The Bible and…hyssop. Hyssop was specifically indicated because it...
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In our article on Spot HRV’s, we talked about “decentralized ventilation” and how to ventilate a home where it’s difficult to impossible to connect a ventilation system to existing ductwork, because there’s no ductwork, or adding it would be too...
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