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Indiana Living Green Delicious Kitchen Article Check out the cover story for the March/April issue of Indiana Living Green. There you will hear all about our successes and challenges of building our green, dream kitchen. Note, Our three-year old son, Ansel, sports the cover of the issue! The finished kitchen!

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This past weekend, our neighborhood association held a weekend retreat. It was a huge commitment of time for the residents of Cottage Home , a neighborhood nestled between downtown and near eastside Indianapolis. But, we had a great turn-out, and the energy all weekend was amazing. First, let me tell you that Cottage Home was a working class neighborhood built around the big-boss' house back in the last 1800's, early 1900's. The homes are predomi… Continue

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 24 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream. That's a lot of waste to send to landfills when it could become useful and environmentally beneficial compost instead! The past couple of weeks I've been doing research for a client on the composting infrastructure in Indiana, and let me tell you folks, it is sad, sad, sad. Most communities, including Indianapolis, have some sort of comp… Continue

Now is the time, to turn Indiana around. Are we all really up for the challenge? Seems those who are most dedicated to a greener Indiana, are also those who are busiest....who are already so involved, so committed, so dedicated, and so close to burning out. How do we continue to build on the momentum from the work of the US Green Building Council, or Sustainable Earth or the Hoosier Environmental Council? How does the average person feel connected to the green… Continue