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A Solar Powered Water Purification System You Can Build at Home

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | May 31, 2010

That’s right folks! With very little skill you can build a system in your yard that will help purify streams and lakes. It will prevent many toxins from entering the waterways and improve water tables. But that’s not all! It will help freshen the air and provide shelter for some of God’s creatures. It can [...]

Posted in Green | Also tagged home improvement, land use | 1 Comment

Rain Barrel Workshop

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | May 25, 2010

Last Saturday  I went to a rain barrel workshop at Edge of the Woods Nursery put on by the Saucon Creek Watershed Committee. For $35, they provided the tools, the materials and help to build a 55 gallon rain barrel. Rain barrels help slow down the flow of water off of roofs. Suburban sprawl with [...]

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Positive, Greener Alternatives to Mowing Lawns

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | February 28, 2009

The greenest, positive alternative to mowing a lawn is to do away with it by letting more green grow. I am not suggesting that you just stop mowing and let whatever is there just grow up, as if your place were abandoned. Land needs maintenance. Man is part of the ecosystem. Our responsibility since Creation [...]

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“How Green Was My Valley”?

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | August 21, 2008

About 40.5 million acres of land are used for lawns in the United Sates. About 300 million acres of land are used for harvested crops each year in the United States. American homeowners spent about $2.1 billion in 2001 for over 30,000 tons of herbicides (i.e., Roundup), insecticides, fungicides, etc., for their lawns. Lawn care [...]

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Are Lawns Green?

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | August 12, 2008

From the time I was six until I was twenty, we lived in Golden Valley, Minnesota. Golden Valley is a suburb of Minneapolis. In the 1960′s and 1970′s, it was home to General Mills, Honeywell’s MIRV control plant (making it the #16 strategic nuclear target for the Russians), Carl Sandburg Junior High (right across the [...]

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Homemade Laundry Soap – Save green by going green.

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | August 1, 2008

This simple recipe will help you eliminate toxic chemicals from your wash cycle and waste water. It will also save loads of money. For a cost of less than a penny a load you can make your own effective, liquid, concentrated, HE, laundry soap that won’t harm your septic system or the fish downstream. Ingredients [...]

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