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Tips to Make a Toddler’s Room Sustainable

Staff Writer — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:01:36 +0000

Whether you’ve been taking steps toward green living or you’re a newbie and want to jump start your efforts and reduce your carbon footprint on earth, one area of opportunity is your toddler’s room. Two interior design instructors from The Art Institutes share how to make your toddler’s room sustainable. “Sustainability is a popular subject, [...]

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Tips to Make a Toddler’s Room Sustainable

Why Test for Lead-Based Paint?

Ron Swisher — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:19:03 +0000

With all of the high-speed communications available today, it is easy to do research. One topic that seems to be showing itself in parents’ magazines, newspapers, and television shows is lead usage. Studies have shown that lead in our bodies causes harm in many ways. The group that can suffer the most damage are children [...]

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Why Test for Lead-Based Paint?

Elevated Radon Levels in Oregon Pose Potential Health Risks

Steve Tucker — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:17:29 +0000

If you’re buying or selling a home, you’ve probably been advised by your realtors to test for radon levels. For the rest of us, though, radon testing probably hasn’t made it onto our home improvement to-do lists. But, according to public health officials and agencies, radon should be at the top of everyone’s list — [...]

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Elevated Radon Levels in Oregon Pose Potential Health Risks

Sustainable Ways to Update Your Kitchen Without Breaking the Bank

Robin Rigby-Fisher — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:46:48 +0000

Funny thing about houses — they don’t comprehend that the economy is less than stellar. They still need regular maintenance. January is my time for organizing, cleaning closets, tidying cabinets, and overall rearranging. This creates lots of opportunities to notice all the things I want to fix and update in our home. Unfortunately, with the [...]

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Sustainable Ways to Update Your Kitchen Without Breaking the Bank

The Bathroom Fan Enters the 21st Century

Dan Dolan — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:45:30 +0000

The bathroom fan has come a long way in just the past year. With the introduction of the dual-sensor fan that monitors both humidity and motion, the bathroom fan has become mostly automatic. For many years the bath fan was turned on like a light with a switch or a timer. Now the Panasonic WhisperSense [...]

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The Bathroom Fan Enters the 21st Century

Bamboo Craftsman Studio, Garden, and Nursery

Susan Rich — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:11:20 +0000

Tucked away on a quiet side street in a peaceful neighborhood in north Portland is a small business on an oversized lot. It boasts one really big garden. A design studio. And a nursery. There’s also a client base that travels up the west coast to buy plants and order custom woodwork. This enterprise is [...]

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Bamboo Craftsman Studio, Garden, and Nursery

Make Room for Baby (and Beyond)

Anne DeWolf — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:17:38 +0000

If you’re a parent or a parent-to-be, it’s inevitable that at some point you’ll want to enjoy a glass of pinot with friends in a living room cleared of LEGOs and My Little Ponies. Balancing the needs of children and adults is challenging throughout parenthood, and making changes to your house to accommodate a growing [...]

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Make Room for Baby (and Beyond)

Viridian Wood Products

Joe Mitchoff — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:56:19 +0000

Two friends who wanted to save some really great wood from winding up in the landfill started Viridian Wood Products. It was that simple. When my business partner, Pierce Henley, moved into his current home in Scappoose he found a pile of discarded hardwood in his new yard. On the surface it didn’t look like [...]

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Viridian Wood Products