EcoMetro

Last week’s rain created waterfalls in my rock walls and lake sized puddles at the corner of my house which resulted in a stream of water across my laundry room floor. Hunched under a torrential downpour I dug drainage ditches from my new lakes to the front slope – it worked! Within a couple of hours...

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi A couple of weeks in Greece slowed me wa-a-a-y down. We Americans just live too fast, too wastefully and make life too complex it seems to me now. A week of walking everywhere in an ancient village...

Top your home with a native plant garden to counterbalance residential development, filter the air, and insulate. Plus you’ll be the talk of the neighborhood. See a 4,000 square foot green roof that’s been growing since 2004 at the Phillips Eco-Enterprise Center (PEEC). The national site Greenroofs.org...