a certified green home with personality

December 10th, 2011 No comments

Its been so fun tagging along as homeowner Lyndsey Lewis and Bret Franks Construction build Lyndseys certified green home in Little Rock. Lyndseys sprightly personality is really beginning to shine through! Especially today, as she shares a few of the fun details slated for the interior design. Its not easy furnishing a 600 square foot home, but with the help of Jen Franks, Lyndseys searching high and low for everything shell need to achieve her vision. See what you think!

Whidbey Front View, a photo by Tumbleweed Tiny House Company on Flickr.

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Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight Rises” Viewing Guide

December 9th, 2011 No comments

“Six months before a movie’s release might seem a little early to show parts of a film,” director Christopher Nolan said to a small audience at a movie theater in Universal City on Thursday night. “But I wanted to show the film in the way it was shot, and the way it was meant to be seen…to capture the grandeur of movies.”

In perfect illustration of his point, Nolan introduced the Dark Knight Rises prologue, which he shot with an IMAX camera, dwarfed by the garguantuan square of the AMC theater’s IMAX screen. After n

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Give your Bedroom a Mexican Makeover

December 2nd, 2011 No comments

New for August 2011 our Colima solid pine bedroom furniture collection captures all the flamboyance and style associated with latin America. This range places huge emphasis on detailing and includes large decorative handles which are typical of Latino styling.

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A plentiful summer harvest

December 1st, 2011 No comments

Kid Power’s Veggie Time Gardens have flourished yielding thousands of tomatoes, zucchini, watermelons, cantaloupes, beans and basil. Thanks to Burpee Home Gardens we have been able to participate in three Farmer’s Markets throughout the summer and will continue to do so through the fall.

As our Summer Time Veggie Time program came to a close, our students were able to share with their communities a love of vegetables, a better understanding of nutrition, and knowledge of their environment and its needs.

We are busily starting seedlings for fall planting, building additional beds, and recruiting more community volunteers to work with us through fall.

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WWOOFing, a way to travel, meet people oh, and learn organic agriculture has cultivated global following

November 29th, 2011 No comments

LOS ANGELES — Kelly Bayer took a vacation from her job in a sleep laboratory by toiling in a vegetable patch in Santa Barbara, Calif.

The sun beat down on her back as she worked a garden hose over a collection of tomatoes, peppers, carrots and onions that would eventually be consumed on the organic farm.

“I’m kind of interested in farming and sustainable living,” Bayer said, before giving away a bit of her real motivation for working on the farm: a quick and cheap way to visit the West Coast.

Bayer, 26, was part of an itinerant crew passing through the one-acre property that included a nursing student from Korea, an engineering student from France and a free-spirited 18-year-old fleeing the East Coast before starting college. I

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