Come learn what some local restuarants are doing to make their grub and your experience even more sustainable. Come join us in this unique panel discussion with Satchel (of Satchel's), Maya from The Jones Eastside, and David Piasecki of Rolls and Bowls (Dragonfly)as they talk about their experience in the green restaurant business.
Come check it out this Saturday, January 30, 2010 from 10AM-12PM at INDIGO.
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When you use them to build an Earth Bag Home that is...
Check it out this Saturday, January 23rd 10AM-12PM at INDIGO
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As the carbon footprints get covered with snow, as the greenhouse gas clears and the hot air turns back into a chilly Denmark breezes, what will be the future of the climate change dialogue? If left to skeptics, we may belieive that we still have unsound scientific data, or the numbers have been laundered. If left to the well, left I suppose, then we may be in for a total shift of lifestyles for many people. But Ron Jones from thegreenbuilder.com illustrates the point of climate change dialogue through cartoonist Joel Patt of the Lexington-Herald Leader. The cartoon depicts a skeptical audience member being shown the benefits of clean energy and is demanding the answer to his question something similar to "what if climate change is all a big hoax and we create a more livable, cleaner and healthier world for all this work?"
If the goals are:
Energy Independence
Preserve Rainforests
Sustainability
Green Jobs
Livable Cities
Renewables
Clean Water, Air
Helathy Children
If the enormous task of facing these problems is finally here and these goals are achieved, we have cleaned up our act even if there is a "hoax" on ourselves. We cannot reasonably assume that we know everything there is to know about this complex planet and the universe in which it spins. But we can know that what we have done in the past to this planet cannot continue without some kind of impact.

No absolutely not, it makes your carbon footprint look small.
And when we look at the number of amazing individuals in this community that have come into INDIGOGreen over the last year, we know that it is true that more and more people are trying on some new "pants" for their homes (and their lives) if you will, and retrofiting them. People's remodeling add-ons are increasing while new home sales are declining. And people are not just remodeling, they are remodeling green.
According to the behemoth publishing firm McGraw-Hill Construction, GreenBuilding Focus summarizes that "the market for nonresidential green building retrofits is set to soar and represents a better opportunity for designers and builders than new construction".
Although the predicted numbers are for non-residential construction, we know that most home owners around here feel the same.
Although energy efficient upgrades were the main reason for retrofits, social and environmental factors were close behind with issues of worker productivity and healthier indoor spaces. And it is predicted that real estate values of green buildings will rise in comparison to their non-green brethern in the future competitive commercial and residential real estate markets.
And yet, we all still have a long way to go perhaps, in realizing the true benefits of building and remodeling sustainably, still a ways till we are hand in hand with energy efficiency while we re-callibrate our economic scales.
But it is as we like to say around here (paraphrasing), green building is just smarter building that is here to stay. Read more.

Fireclay's Jellybean Rocks are on sale at INDIGO for 50% off the regular price which brings them from $13.00 sq ft to $6.50 sq ft. Quite a deal and quite stunning to boot- these highly versitle mesh-backed tiles are ideal for bathrooms, shower floors and walls, outdoor patios and are available in 12 field colors and three sizes (4"x4", 4"x12" and 12"x12"). Click here to see the flyer on the sale.
CLick here to go straight to Fireclay's site.