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The time it never rained: Easy steps to save our precious water
The following is a guest post by our good friend Miles Dyson of Inspection Connection. Miles is one of Las Cruces, New Mexico’s foremost Go Green experts in home inspection, energy rating, and green certification. I inherited a healthy appetite … Continue reading
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Tagged Green Building, Miles Dyson, Water Conservation
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Green Building: Improve home efficiency with Energy Star
Energy Star has become a recognized household name second only to the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. It is a leader in new home performance and is setting standards for green building to meet its guidelines. Energy Star isn’t just … Continue reading
Green Building: Picacho Mountain’s Green Certification Makes Building a Green Certified Home Even Easier
Green home certification can seem a bit daunting, but building your next luxury home at Picacho Mountain can make the certification process just a little bit easier. Picacho Mountain is Southern New Mexico’s only Build Green New Mexico (BGNM) certified … Continue reading
Green building: Spaceport America helps promote green building for Earth today, space tomorrow
I got a little nostalgic last week as I watched the space shuttle land after its final mission from my Picacho Mountain office here in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The space race was a huge deal for me as a … Continue reading
Posted in Green Building, Green Living, History, Las Cruces, New Mexico, spaceport america, Uncategorized
Tagged Green Building, Las Cruces, NASA, New Mexico, NM, spaceport america
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Go Green: New solar energy plant being built near Las Cruces NM
Guest Post by Todd G. Dickson of the Las Cruces Bulletin. This article is from the March 25, 2011 issue of the Las Cruces Bulletin. If you’ve driven out of Hatch up state Highway 26 lately, you might have seen … Continue reading
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Tagged Go Green, Green Building, hatch, Las Cruces, New Mexico, NM, Solar Energy
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Video Blog: Rammed Earth Homes in Las Cruces New Mexico
This is the second installment of our new video blog series about building rammed earth custom home at Picacho Mountain with Pat Bellestri-Martinez of Soledad Canyon Earth Builders. Click here to see our first Rammed Earth Video Blog post. Make … Continue reading
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Tagged Building a Rammed Earth Home, custom home, custom homes, Green Building, Green Building Suppliers & Vendors, green home, Green Living, Las Cruces, Las Cruces Custom Home Builders, las cruces nm, New Mexico, new mexico homes, NM, Pat Bellestri, patio home town home estate home, picacho mountain, rammed earth, rammed earth custom home, Rammed earth home, Rammed Earth Homes in New Mexico, Real Estate and tagged custom home las cruces new mexico, Soledad Canyon Earth BUilders custom home builder
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Go Green: Five tips for selecting the right type of hot water heater
Las Cruces, New Mexico generally enjoy very temperate weather. We enjoy over 350 days of sunshine each every. However, every couple of hundred years we get a killer snow storm. By killer I mean four inches that melted within a … Continue reading
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Tagged energy efficient, energy efficient home, Go Green, Green Building, Green Living, hot water heater, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Solar Energy, solar hot water
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Green Building: Four ways your iPhone, iPad or other mobile device can combat energy waste in your home
OK, I’ll admit it … I’m an iPhone convert. Until about six months ago, the only thing smart about my phone was the guy using it. Now that I have converted to an iPhone, I’m not sure how I ever … Continue reading