Tag: Green Design

  • Harvest Power Mobile App Upgraded for the Growing Season

    Harvest Power, focused on maximizing the value of organic materials, has upgraded its Harvest Landscape Calculator, a mobile app for gardeners and landscapers. The free app, now available on Android devices in addition to iPhones and iPads, features an enhanced user interface that makes it even easier to determine how much soil, mulch or stone…

  • Non-toxic Lithium-Ion Battery Packs Revolutionizing Power Tools

    While the green aspects of power tools was not a driving factor in the decisions for most of us in the past, more power and less weight would be the priority, it is one of those topics that has become much more important in recent years and is important enough for our customers to ask…

  • Constructive Healing Through Soothing Environments

    Studies show that gardens — both in and outside medical facilities — soothe patients. It isn’t much of a leap to see that gardens with walkways, benches and the gentle hum of falling water would have similar effects in other public facilities. However, medical research also shows that water features, especially indoors, must be properly constructed and…

  • Solar-Powered Affordable Housing in Chicago

    This is an encouraging story about affordable solar-powered housing that is being planned in Chicago. Thanks to Zach Shahan from CleanTechnica. Photo: Chicago skyline from Shutterstock

  • Is Houston Solar Ready?

    “Is Houston Solar Ready?” is a four-page collaborative review that presents a review of the technological implementations in Houston homes, schools and commercial buildings. It also presents case studies and a record of the successes the community has had and challenges facing the use of solar energy along the Texas Gulf Coast.