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New York HOUSE Magazine — July 2005 > View the eMagazine—our digital edition FEATURE STORY: Simple Choices BY SUSAN PIPERATO Improving the health of family, community, and planet starts at home. FEATURE STORY: Greener Acres BY VALERIE HAVAS A new house in Gardiner aims to define sustainable architecture. BEST IN GREEN BUILDING COMPETITION Click here to learn more! FEATURE STORY: Earth, Sun, Wind BY LORRIE KLOSTERMAN How to power your home with clean, renewable energy. FROM THE EDITOR: Shades of Green ENTRYWAY: July Joy I have the flowers and the grass, my brothers here the trees, and all July to make me joyous. ?Edwin Arlington Robinson, from ?Captain Craig? MY HUDSON VALLEY: Paradise Lost Remembering the elegant Emerson Inn. AREA SPOTLIGHT: Greenville, Greene County This quintessential small town a half-hour from Albany plans for graceful growth. FEATURE STORY: Living off the Grid BY LYNN WOODS Past the reach of power lines, a family builds a solar home and unplugs. FARM NOTES: Share Holder Translating his expenses into shares, a CSA farmer learns a lesson in value. HOME STYLE: Green Decor More and more interior designers promote sustainable stylings. HOUSE HOROSCOPES: July Home Horoscopes Now is a good time to tend to affairs relating to your most personal matters. BACK PORCH: 21st-Century Nature Timothy Hochstetter?s art glass puts a contemporary spin on Art Nouveau. Metro Edition FEATURE STORY: Al Fresco BY JUDITH HAUSMAN In contrast to their bigger, sleeker, more powerful gas-burning cohorts, traditional outdoor cookers bring home authentic tastes from abroad. FEATURE STORY: Garden Views BY SUSANNE TURINO CASAL Local garden tours, presented by the Garden Conservancy Open Days program, offer spectacular vistas, sweet ideas, and inspiration galore. FROM THE EDITOR: Balancing Act PERSONAL SPACE: Glass Box A far-flung executive, forever on the move, finds serenity in the minimal, Zen-like environs of his Bauhaus home in Chappaqua. ENTRYWAY: July Feast Among the bumble-bees in red-top hay, a freckled field of brown-eyed Susans dripping yellow leaves in July. ?Carl Sandburg, from Cornhuskers METRO LIFE: Cutting it Short One Rockland County renter?s trials with hedges and homes. SITE SPECIFIC: History Revisited A Revolutionary War?era waterwheel tucked inside a Paramus cloverleaf. AREA SPOTLIGHT: Old Greenwich, Fairfield County In this Greenwich borough, small-town charm and seaside living cost top dollar. IN THE GARDEN: In Praise of Volunteers Self-sowing plants bring spirit and spontaneity to the summer garden.

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GREEN EVENTS

> 9/16 – 9/17—East Coast Green – Meeting The Architecture 2030 Goals (Atlantic City). Sustainability is one of AIA's top priorities and climate change is everyone's concern, crossing state and regional boundaries. This conference will seek to benchmark how we are doing at meeting the Architecture 2030 goals and what still needs to be done. Bally's Hotel Casino, Atlantic City, NJ. All Day. More info here.
> Ongoing—WATER: H2O = LIFE (New York City). Examine the most vital liquid on Earth through a series of exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History.
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RESOURCES
> New Jersey & Company — Business & Green news
> NYInc — Business & Green news
> NY House Magazine — Green Real Estate
> The Daily Green — The consumer's guide to green
> Green Inc. Blog — NYTimes.com — Energy and Green Business

GREEN NEWS SOURCES
> Alternative Energy News
> Climate Biz
> Climate Change News Digest
> Environmental News Network
> Global Climate Change from BBC News
> Green Business News
> GreenBiz.com
> Green Tech from CNET
> Greener Choices from Consumer Reports
> Greentech Media
> Greenwire
> Point Carbon
> Renewable Energy World
> Yale Environment 360
> Washington Post: Green Science. Policy. Living

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