May 21, 2013
12:01 a.m.
In the wake of the horrific tornado in Moore yesterday, Greensburg GreenTown and GreenTown Joplin staff have met to determine how we can be of service to the community there. We've been contacted by a couple of entities from Oklahoma seeking assistance wi...
May 8, 2013
5:36 p.m.
photo credit: Sydney Menees
If you've been following GreenTown Joplin's projects, you know that third-year architecture students from Drury University have been hard at work all semester designing a project for the Chain of Eco-Homes. Under the tutela...
April 29, 2013
5:28 p.m.
The following article is by the Association for Sustainability's Development Director, Ama Hapke:
Friday, April 26 marked the 141st annual Arbor Day! To celebrate Arbor Day and Earth Week, Kansas State Extension Agent Barrett Smith collected cedar tre...
April 18, 2013
5:26 p.m.
In honor of Earth Week, GreenTown hosting a Nuisance Weed Roundup to encourage controlling weeds in an ecological way. Our target this year is dandelions. Here is the brief version of how to participate:
Sign up as an individual or team any tim...
April 17, 2013
5:26 p.m.
Jaclyn Nicholson from elocal.com submitted an eye-opening inforgraphic to help us learn more about potential problem areas in the home. Here is her introduction to Healthy Home Invaders:
With the amount of chemicals that we are exposed to daily, we tend ...
April 7, 2013
5:30 p.m.
Attention, all you visionary home designers! Check out this opportunity to design a model off-the-grid sustainable home. All the pertinent details can be found on the Beyond the Grid website.
Beyond the Grid is an architectural design competition that ...
March 27, 2013
5:36 p.m.
Recycling is a great way to notice how much waste we as individual citizens create, and it affords us the opportunity to reuse it the way our frontier ancestors did. The average American produces about 3.8 pounds of recyclables every day. Even though recy...
March 22, 2013
12:01 a.m.
We have reached the final installment of our sustainable products series! Though the past ten weeks have been devoted to product donations that make the Silo Eco-Home sustainable (and we have a few more of those to cover), monetary donations were also ...
March 12, 2013
12:01 a.m.
One of the most important aspects of the Silo Eco-Home is making sure that our guests feel at home in our bed and breakfast suite. The past weeks, the products I have highlighted contribute to the functionality and aesthetics of our home, but this wee...
March 5, 2013
11:11 p.m.
It was a pleasure to see today that AOL Travel published two pieces on Greensburg by writer Diane Lambdin Meyer. The article After Devastating Tornado, Kansas Town Re-emerges "Like No Other Place in America" gives readers a brief history of the recovery...
