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3 Amazing Green Home Design Elements To Add To Your Home

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More Australians are looking to minimise both environmental impact and financial outlay by outfitting their houses with sustainable, green home design elements.

Green architecture, or green home design, is an approach to building that minimises harmful effects on human health and the environment. It is a way to safeguard air, water, and earth by choosing eco-friendly building materials and construction practices.

Nowadays, it’s not just about adding solar panels on your roof and calling your home sustainable.

Here are three other ways you can add green home design elements to your home:

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Fundamentals of Modern Home Design

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Times change and with them social customs and living ideologies take a turn. No century, however great, can retain all its values and fundamentals from its first year to its last. And this, in fact, is the beauty of our existence on this planet. Think of homes that were built a couple of centuries ago. How will they pass in today’s time? I know that those with an affinity for suburban McMansions won’t still hate the idea of 18th century plots spread over acres but most of us will only too well understand that the trend of big homes is a thing of the past.

Big homes are just one among the many trends that have gone back into time’s womb. Won’t it then be interesting to know which are the present trends that govern modern home design and what are their chances of playing a part in our future? I am surely thrilled to take you on this tour. Hope you will reach the other side of this article equally thrilled (and satisfied).
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What You Should Know about Green Flooring

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Wood flooringYou’re undertaking a major home renovation, and you’re thinking about going for green flooring. It would certainly be a wise choice, because some of the more common flooring options today, vinyl and regular carpets included, post risks to your home and the environment. Not only are they petroleum based, but they—regular carpets in particular—also harbour allergens and toxic chemicals.

Green flooring options minimise this risk. If you decide to go on with it, here are some things you should know about green flooring.

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New French Law Requires Green Rooftops For All New Buildings

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green roof gardenThe French Parliament has approved a ground breaking law that requires all new commercial buildings in France to cover their rooftops in plants or solar panels, according to an article on Outdoor Design Source.

Initially, environmental groups wanted full green rooftops covering all new buildings, but a compromise was reached, with the new law eventually mandating that businesses either fully or partially cover part of the roof in plant life or install solar panels on the roof.

Among the many benefits of green rooftops include insulating buildings, absorb rainwater, and offer valuable habitat for wildlife.

With this new law, the urban landscape of French cities will be transformed. Other countries may also be inspired to implement similar laws.

Click here to read the full story.

Improve Your Garden this Summer

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improve your gardenAustralian summer can have a wilting effect on your garden. Gardens have a therapeutic value for us, but unless they are in the ‘green’ of their health, they do not exude much confidence. Here, then, are a few tricks you can use to improve your garden and keep them in top spirit.
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Ideas for Green Home Design

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green homesThe appetite of time is that it does not pass every fad. Fashions change over time. Only some very necessary or reliable ones meet the requirements of time and continue to be in vogue (well, forever). At the moment, it seems that ‘green homes’ is one such idea.
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Sustainable Homes Through WikiHouse

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sustainable homesWhen earthquake hit New Zealand in 2011, the country thought of addressing the damages an earthquake can bring about. It was just then that an open source project called WikHouse was doing the rounds. NZ grabbed it!

WikiHouse is a home designing technology that looks at creating small assemblies and putting them up together just like prefabricated houses. The idea picked up and followed suit in other countries. Today, countries as far away as Holland, Brazil, and China are also embracing the technique.
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Setting up Your Own Organic Garden

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organic gardenThe vegetables we see in the supermarket are quite luring, but this you can put down to the effect of LED lighting. I must let you into this — there is nothing organic about the glow. These are fruits and vegetables which are brought up on synthesised fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals. Long years of eating this very food give us various types of chronic illnesses. And add to this the harm we are causing to the soil and environment.
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