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Comment by Eric Hughes "The Green Home Designer" on June 23, 2009 at 11:30pm

Great comment Peg we have done this on several of our project's. It is also a great place to buy product for your green homes!

Comment by Peg McCarty-Blue Bay Builders on June 23, 2009 at 3:52pm

Recycling waste materials during building remodeling or new construction is basic to green building - we like to take usable items to the Habitat Restore in Traverse City. They will even send a truck out to pick things up. We have given them used sinks, appliances, furniture, and other left over building materials such as tile, siding, lumber, and flooring. Their web-site is www.habitatgtr.org and phone number is: 944-1182 and address 1129 Woodmere Ave., TC

Comment by Andrea Galloup on June 23, 2009 at 2:50pm

Cedar Valley Ridge and the Michigan Green Consortium invite you to join us for the next Green Connections, a networking event designed to bring green-minded business professionals together. The next Green Connections will be held at Cedar Valley Ridge on Thursday, June 25th, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. See the full invitation at www.mgconline.org.

Comment by Eric Hughes "The Green Home Designer" on June 18, 2009 at 9:17pm

I have some exciting Up North LEED for Homes projects that we are working on the designs for Beulah, Benzionia, Long Lake (Just outside of Traverse City) and LeRoy. Keep a watch out for post on these projects

Comment by Salon Verve Organic Salon & Retailer on June 3, 2009 at 9:45am

Great! Thanks Rachel! We will look forward to it!

Comment by Rachel North on June 2, 2009 at 3:38pm

hey gang, just wanted to let you know that our Northern Home & Cottage green issue is coming out in mid-July (August issue). We have two new ways to advertise, green advertorials, and green directory pages. The space is closing this week and these new options are priced nicely. If you're at all interested, email me at rnorth@traversemagazine.com or call me this week. 941-5756.

Comment by Elizabeth Edwards on June 2, 2009 at 10:42am

This is great info. I'm still baffled though because I had two LED bulbs burn out as well--so maybe there are problems with those as well?

Comment by Christian Cook......Bringing residential wind power to Western Michigan on June 2, 2009 at 10:25am

Great idea in the hard to reach spaces. I'm sure they will come down and take over the market. 2 years ago I couldn't reconcile CFLs in the spreadsheet and now they are in range of pretty much every budget. It is irritating that the whole industry is willing to publish those false usage stats.

Comment by Eric Hughes "The Green Home Designer" on June 2, 2009 at 9:57am

We have been using LED in hard to reach or high spaces. The also have a lenses now the gets rid of the blue. Yes the are expensive but are becoming more widely used which sould low the price idn the future.

Comment by Christian Cook......Bringing residential wind power to Western Michigan on June 2, 2009 at 9:47am

LED's are currently a little cost prohibitive aren't they? They are also very blue and take some getting used to like CFLs started out. I agree withe the lifespan problem of the CFL but with their better color light and price point they may still be our best "current" solution. I am having the same discussion in battery tech. New lithiums and capacitor technology will surpass the lead acid I'm sure but for now the best value I can give a customer when looking an cost verse usage is in still in the lead acid.

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