Lec 1 | MIT 4.125 Architecture Studio: Building in Landscape
Undergraduate Design Studio: Quarry Pinups View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu More courses at ocw.mit.edu
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Building A Greenhouse | Growing Tomatoes | Gardening
xxsurl.com Building A Greenhouse | Growing Tomatoes | Gardening Building a greenhouse, gardening and growing tomatoes and vegetables the easy way. Use our Ultimate Greenhouse Package Building a Greenhouse | Growing Tomatoes | Gardening Updated November 2006 From: Joe Bifano Date: The search is finally over…Get ready to start learning about gardening and growing vegetables and especially tomatoes where it is almost impossible to grow. If you want to start growing or start planning for next spring you will want to pay very close attention to what I have to say below. You can now start growing all kinds of vegetables and grow so much that you will be able to sell all of it, if you want to! What does this mean… well for me it means not having to pay top dollar at the grocery store for any vegetables anymore. It’s not having to deal with un-ripened fruit that is supposed to be fresh. It’s not having to purchase only what’s available in the stores. It’s not having to drive to the grocery store every time I want something fresh. It means spending time with my family. It’s making money on the fruit and vegetables or plants I grow. Bottom line is I can do what ever I want, when ever I want to. And I don’t have any financial worries. Enough about me… why am I telling you this stuffb Because I am going to give you access to my secret greenhouse system called the Ultimate Greenhouse Package. Until now I have never revealed my powerful strategy to the public. When I first …
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BUILDING A WOODEN GEODESIC DOME – PART 3 – ARROWHEAD CUTS
We set out to build a geodesic dome to house our aquaponics system. This is how it turned out.
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Building – using Polycarbonate Multiwall Sheets
Courtesy of www.GreenWallSolutions.com Using Polycarbonate Multiwall sheets roofing
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Building The Garden Of Awsome
just a garden for only awsome ppl just a garden for all my homies 
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How do you keep ants from building in your raised garden?
Question by : How do you keep ants from building in your raised garden?
I was wanting to know how to keep ants from building in my garden..I have a toddler but i want a safe easy way to keep them out of my garden and yard…I have dogs and cats as well so any help would be nice!
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Answer by Treschan Hawke
I was wondering this same thing myself and i discovered this site:
http://charlotte-walters.suite101.com/repel-ants-the-natural-way-a219558
This seems like it would be the safest way to deal with the ant problems.
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Building Nutrient Rich Garden SOIL. – What I Did.
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Every year Jacqueline Kennedy starts her garden by throwing local horse manure under her veggie patch. Her soil is now so rich that one year she had a zucchini plant that produced vegetables without being watered once. And this is in a part of the country (Geyserville, Sonoma County, California) where temperatures in summer reach 110°F. Original story here: faircompanies.com
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Building Greenhouse Tips
buildinggreenhouses.info – Click Here For Greenhouse Plans & Tips To Make Your Greenhouse Project Go Without A Fuss
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Building a Raised Bed
This training video explains how to build a raised bed vegetable garden and how to educate kids by including them in the gardening process.
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I’m building a house. Do you know anything about GREEN houses? Where can I find more info?
Question by jen: I’m building a house. Do you know anything about GREEN houses? Where can I find more info?
I need to know more about things to consider.
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Answer by mtnglo
Think Small
Small can be beautiful and cozy. The trend lately has been toward huge mansion-style houses. Large houses generally use a tremendous amount of energy to heat and cool.
Heat with the Sun
Good passive solar design will provide just enough sunlight into the rooms to be absorbed by the surrounding thermal mass (usually masonry materials), so that the heat will be given back into the room when the sun goes down.
Keep Your Cool
A good way to keep your cool is to dig into the earth. About six feet under the earth, you will find that the temperature varies by only a few degrees year round.
Use Renewable Energy
There are many ways to conserve the use of fossil fuel; using the sun, wind, or water to produce electricity are among them.
Conserve Water
The use of low water capacity toilets, flow restrictors at shower heads and faucet aerators are fairly common now. More radical conservation approaches include diverting gray water from bathing, clothes washing and bathroom sinks to watering plants; catching rain water from roofs and paved areas for domestic use and switching to composting toilets.
Use Local Materials
Because these materials require little processing or transporting, the environmental and economic costs are low. Some are renewable resources (like trees and straw), and some may be so abundant that their supply seems almost inexhaustible (like rocks and sand). One of the beauties of building with local materials is that they seem to fit well with the feeling of the place, naturally.
Use Natural Materials
Among the natural materials that are both aesthetically pleasing and benign I would include: stone, glass, lime or mud plasters, adobe or rammed earth, bricks, tiles, untreated wood (simple oil finishes can be used), cork, paper, reeds, bamboo, canes and grasses, all natural fibers (linen, cotton, wool, etc.).
Save Our Forests
Use wood as decoration. Cull dead trees for structural supports. Use masonry, straw bales, papercrete, cob, adobe, rocks, bags of volcanic rock, etc., instead of wood.
Recycle Materials
Many localities have places that collect and resell recycled building materials. They might accept and sell such materials as wood, flooring, doors, windows, electrical supplies, ducting, hardware, plumbing, insulation, cabinets, fencing and landscaping.
Build to Last
A prime ingredient of sustainable architecture is durability. If a building doesn’t last for a long time, it would be a waste of a lot of embodied energy, from both a human and a resource perspective…not to mention the economic loss.
http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/
http://www.gogreenonline.com/
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5360
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm?fileName=090101a.xml
http://www.edcmag.com/
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