Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Ice Storm
End of November 2007, Steve Hewitt is worried over rebuilding downtown with no money. A contractor meeting for the business incubator is held. The project will be a 9,300 square foot facility that will contain retail shops and professional services. And to initiate this going green project as quick as possible. Steve is hoping to get it out to bid, designed, and start construction in the spring, for completion in the summer. Before the storm Richard and Rhonda Engelken owned three commercial buildings, one rental house, four cars, and their own home. After the storm, all gone. Rhonda’s (more…)
Tags: beauty shop, business incubator, car, christmas tree farm, commercial buildings, committee meeting, committees, community christmas tree, fema, go, green, hear, hearing, high school kids, incubator project, leaves, levi smith, lights, manufactured home, money, pretty tree, rental house, retail shops, rhonda, shock, spirits, square foot facility, steve hewitt, sticker shock, surprise, three kids, tornado, tornadoes, town meeting, trees
Posted in Going Green | 8 Comments »
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
A professor, at Rutgers University, has developed an inorganic paint called Ultimate
Paint. This paint is displaying some very remarkable abilities. Such as: graffiti
resistant; repairs concrete; mold resistant; fire proof; dries nearly as hard as a
diamond, and lasts 1,000 years. How do they know? The chemistry of the coating is
an aluminosilicate, the same formula used for the Chinese terracotta army which is
more than 2,000 years old. (more…)
Tags: aluminosilicate, car, car exhaust, chineseoxygen gases, concrete mold, energy, fire proof, infrastructure, initial results, inorganic paint, mold, molds, nano particles, nitrogen oxide, organic particles, paint, paints, remarkable abilities, rutgers university, s rays, sun, terracotta army, test phase, titanium oxide, transportation infrastructure, ultimate paint, uv energy
Posted in Going Green | 21 Comments »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
I am sure that you have heard or seen these before, but I feel the need to share them
with you to help out in your everyday living.
- Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to pick the little “stringy
things” off of it. That’s how the primates do it. Take your bananas apart when you
get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
- Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much
longer and not mold!
- Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
- Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking. (more…)
Tags: aluminum foil, baking dish, bottoms, boxes, cake frosting, calories, candy bars, car, chunk, cream, cream cheese, cupcakes, delicious dessert, dish, dishes, energy, everyday living, food chopper, ground beef, heavy cream, leaves, light taste, lights, living, mold, molds, nonstick skillet, pets, primates, rain, refrigerator, registers, reheat pizza, scrambled eggs, soil, sour cream, vanilla ice, warm biscuits, water
Posted in Natural Living | 19 Comments »
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Sometimes I wonder who our government really works for, the people or big business.
More precisely, Big Oil.
The U. S. Government sets gas pumps to 60 degrees F. That means gas is being
dispensed as if it is always 60 degrees outside. Since gas contracts in cooler
temperatures, this standard may work in Iceland, but here in the Tropic of Hades,
it is grossly unfair. In places, like Texas, the temperature is alot higher in those
underground gas tanks. Especially in the late afternoon, we are often in the mid to
high 90’s, even hotter. There are 12 states (Texas included), which has average fuel (more…)
Tags: alot, bottom line, bottoms, consumer advocates, counterbalance, fish, fuel, fuel retailers, gas, gas contracts, gas prices, gas pumps, gas tanks, government standards, hades, highway robbery, late afternoon, nozzles, overnight temperatures, temperature changes, underground gas
Posted in blogs | 16 Comments »
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Protecting our environment in some ways is akin to saving an endangered species. For
instance, it’s really not a good idea to try to feed raw meat to a snow leopard from
your bare hand. Maybe I’m a little sensitive because I live in Tornado Alley, but
this guy, well never mind let me just tell you….
A former NASCAR driver in Charlotte, N.C. has spent tons of money building a car
called Tornado Attack, to drive head long into a tornado in the name of stupid, I
mean science. He says of the car, “Tornado Attack was designed to attack tornadoes,
that’s why it’s an attack. And we hunt tornadoes, we don’t chase them. We hunt (more…)
Tags: bullet proof glass, caliber bullet, car, creating, danger boy, doppler radar, driver, einstein, endangered species, environment, go, ideas, living, meterologist, money, mother nature, nascar, natural, nature, protecting our environment, raw meat, savings, science, shield windows, snow leopard, steel tower, sun roof, systems, tons of money, tornado, tornado alley, tornadoes, transparency, trees, view, weather, wheel wells, wind, wind shield
Posted in Wind Power | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Insulated Concrete Forms
Yesterday in the Greensburg update ICFs (Insulated Concrete Forms), were talked about
as being the green building material of choice on at least a couple of projects. This
stuff caught my interest so I delved into it a little. Here’s what I found. (more…)
Tags: allergens, building material, energy, green, insulated concrete forms, insulator, interior temperatures, mold, ravages of time, rebar, recycled materials, recycling, s, slots, spacer, styrofoam, time fire, unused portions, wind
Posted in Going Green | 10 Comments »
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The Building Begins
The City Administrator Steve Hewitt goes to Kansas City to talk to BNIM about building
the downtown “Main Street Small Business Incubator” LEED’s platinum certifiable.
Getting back to his home in “FEMA Town” in time to take his toddler Trick or Treating
dressed as a skunk (cute!). (more…)
Tags: agricultural scientist, ann dixon, business incubator, center job, city administrator, city ordinance, concrete foundation, day care center, energy, fema, go, green, home payments, insulated concrete forms, insulator, living, muntz, nothing left, ordinance, rebar, roofing, sites, skunks, sound proof, steel beams, steve hewitt, styrofoam, tornado, traffic, traffic signal, wet concrete, wind, woods
Posted in Going Green | 8 Comments »