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2 months ago | 
statecourtreport.org | David Brown |Douglas Keith |Morgan Munroe
The Arkansas Supreme Court is engaged in a public power struggle over who has the ultimate authority to make administrative decisions for the institution — a constitutional confrontation pitting the state’s newly elected chief justice against the majority of her colleagues.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
greenlivingmag.com | David Brown
By David M. BrownComposting has become quite the buzzword in recent years and has become increasingly popular as people look for ways to reduce waste and help mitigate disastrous levels of methane gas caused by rotting food scraps in landfills. Last month, we took a look at residential composting and Mill’s partnership with Arizona’s R.City.
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May 16, 2024 | 
citylifestyle.com | David Brown
Also known as solar tubes, tubular skylights are “your windows on the roof.”“A tubular skylight allows natural light in to brighten rooms during the day without the need for an electrical light source,” explains Jovane Estrada, general manager for Chandler-based Elite Solar Lighting & Fans (EliteSolarSystems.com).
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May 9, 2024 | 
greenlivingmag.com | David Brown
By David M. BrownTrash your old way of thinking about green waste. In fact, can it. A local partnership of technology and farming is creating the next revolution in food recycling. Mill Industries Inc., an in-home food-recycling company based in San Bruno, Calif., and Recycled City, J.D. Hill’s pioneering farm in South Phoenix, have developed a food waste-reduction service for Phoenix residents.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
greenlivingmag.com | David Brown
By David M. BrownMid-century modern architecture. A showcase of sustainable building design, construction, and home products. An eco-friendly, budget-built home in the high desert of Arizona, producing power, capturing and treating water onsite, even growing food — all for a total cost of about $300,000 without the land, low in comparison to other newly constructed luxury homes in the Valley. This self-sufficient home can now be toured, studied, and booked for events and stays.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
greenlivingmag.com | David Brown
If you’re building a new home or renovating an existing one, consider building green, as you weigh initial costs against long-time energy and lifestyle benefits. The design concepts and components that you select in our beautiful but often brutal Sonoran Desert will depend on various factors, including our Southwest location, your style, and your budget. Drawing boardsFirst, communicate your dreams and vision with your architect, interior designer, and landscape architect.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | David Brown
The owners have just offered a significant price improvement on this custom cul-de-sac home on 1.6 acres in guard-gated Clearwater Hills, 4129 E. Sandy Mountain Road. The European-style residence was designed and built with the highest quality materials in 2015 and was completely reimagined six years later in 2021 by Kurt Holland, principal of Incline Custom Homes, a design/build firm.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
greenlivingmag.com | David Brown
By David M. BrownWe’d all be foraging if we didn’t have dependable grocery stores to find our foodstuffs. For thousands of years, Native Americans in Arizona have left pueblo, town, and village to pick from nature, not shelves and bins: mesquite pods, grapes, acorns, cholla buds, mushrooms, prickly pear pads, palo verde sprouts, and tepary beans. Celebrated foragers, such as naturalist and author Steve ‘Wildman’ Brill, have disseminated the many advantages of the method to a worldwide audience.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
ukexportnews.co.uk | David Brown
A recycling company that transforms end-of-life waste carpet into products for a wide range of industries is using Borger’s BLUEline rotary lobe pumps
Borger’s BLUEline rotary lobe pumps are playing an important part in conveying the hard-to-handle wastewater to a centrifuge.
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
greenlivingmag.com | David Brown
“If each home were to address what humans need for basic sustenance, we wouldn’t need all that infrastructure. Each building would be an independent vessel, like a ship in space or at sea.”—Michael Reynolds (Earthship Founder)A’70s phenomenon may be soaring back: The Earthship. Although inconceivable for some, over the last several years, reality TV has celebrated and even popularized the concept of living off the grid.
