| 221 Dawn Drive –Liberty Hill,Texas | MLS 4921842 2,198 square feet home (per owner),3 bedrooms,2 full,1 half bathroom, 2 and a 1/2 car garage Lot Size is 1 Acre Neighborhood:Ancient Oaks Sec 01 Detailed Information Located just northwest of Austin,Texas,this is a greenbuilt,SUPER Energy Efficient custom home [...] My TOFGA NWF signs I am a National Wildlife Federation certified backyard habitat steward as well as a REALTOR® who specializes in green homes. I proudly display my TOFGA (Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association) as well as NWF Habitat signs on my yard’s gate as well as display the signs on my [...] Did you know that if you want to,you can drive an all electric vehicle now? Revolt Custom Electric Vehicles can take an ordinary car and turn it into a clean,all electric vehicle capable of running at highway speeds and needing no dirty oil changes. [...] I think it is easier for one to learn a lesson by actually feeling it,experiencing it with their own body and mind. Such is the case with thermal mass. I first learned about thermal mass in the Texas Hill Country near Austin,Texas. I believe it was at Lyndon Baines Johnson’s boyhood home in Johnson City,[...] The annual Renewable Energy Roundup and Green Living Fair is coming up. Put on by the Texas Solar Energy Society,the Fair is now in it’s 11th year and coming to historic Fredericksburg,Texas September 24th through September 26th,2010. I go every year and am never there enough time. There is always so much to see,do and learn for people of all ages. Children 12 and under are FREE. Tickets are $10.00 to $12.00 and available at the gate. There are so many booths set up to learn about so much. [...] I raise food on my 60′city lot in Leander,Texas. My front yard is an organic grocery store. [...] Two Tiny Home Concepts that may help in moving towards sustainability. Tiny Texas Houses to downsize your carbon footprint for about $38,000. to just under $100,000. and ZeroHouse™ which are tiny modern looking homes and run about $350,000. [...] There are five green construction methods that you can easily adopt include buy locally,use energy efficient appliances and devices,use recycled and recyclable materials,make your home eco-friendly and then maintain what you’ve built so you don’t have to use more resources to replace what you built. [...] What are VOCs and what can we do to avoid having them in our homes? VOCs are Volatile Organic Compounds,and no,this is not the type of “good”organic we want in our Texas Organic Home. VOCs are pollutants in our homes and can effect the indoor air quality of our homes. The resulting poor indoor air quality can have both short and long term ill health effects. [...] My yard meets the criteria for Austin’s Award Winning Green Garden Program yet I am not a City of Austin water customer so I can’t share my yard in that venue. The City of Leander gets the water from the same place,Lake Travis but we buy it from Leander,not Austin. Part of being a Texas Organic Home is to have a green yard. By green I do not mean a huge,water hungry synthetic yard but a water conserving,sensible and beautiful yard that is safe for humans,pets and wildlife due to lack of synthetic chemicals. [...] | |
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