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Q&A: going green and building a tiny house?

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Question by Mark L: going green and building a tiny house?
I am interested in going as green as possible and building a house similar to the Tumbleweed Tiny Houses. I don’t want to buy their set of plans when I want to make my own design. Are there any good websites, books etc on easy portable architecture? I’m really just interested in the materials I’ll need and what-not, so it doesn’t fall down.

I’ve never done construction by my grandfather was a master woodworker and architect, any I am pretty good at building things, it’s in my blood.

So, where do I start?

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

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Answer by thor
Never heard of those houses, but start by going to Lowes or Home Depot and looking at their small sheds. I’ve thought many times how easy it would be to transform one into a house.

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Q&A: Starting a 600 sqf garden + green house. Whats the best plant to make money off of?

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Question by : Starting a 600 sqf garden + green house. Whats the best plant to make money off of?
Legal plants of course 😛

We’ve already started the obvious things such as carrots, corn, pumpkins, and watermelon.

But as far as selling crops at farmer markets or restaurants is there and “delicacies” such as mushrooms for example, or roses at nightclubs/fancy places? I’m based in the midwest of the United States.

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Answer by Ohiorganic
heirloom lettuces, raspberries, strawberries, arugula, leeks, etc.. are what get me the most money

I hope you mean 60,000 square feet (a little over an acre) and not 600 square feet for a market garden as 600 square feet will not grow much for marketing, especially if you let things like water melon and pumpkins take up half the space

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In 2012 when the Democrats retake the House, should we tax the rich?

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Question by : In 2012 when the Democrats retake the House, should we tax the rich?
We Say Enough is Enough!
End the Bush-era tax giveaways to banks, corporations and wealthy individuals.
Close corporate tax loopholes, especially billions in tax subsidies for the oil companies.
Raise new revenues by restoring 70% tax rate on incomes over $ 1 million.
Raise $ 150 billion a year by imposing a financial transaction tax on Wall Street speculation.
Cut the military budget by half. Bring troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Create jobs in a major public works program to repair our nation’s infrastructure and to make our nation number one in “green industry.” Target the jobs to hard-hit inner city communities and the rural poor.
Fully fund a national health care program and drastically increase federal aid to education, Pell Grants, and other vital human needs programs.
Remove the cap on the Social Security payroll tax, so that CEOs and hedge fund managers pay the same rate as the rest of us.

http://www.cpusa.org/save-the-nation-tax-corporations-tax-the-rich/

We got it in Spanish too. You’ll find the link at the bottom of the page.

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Answer by Ms Boss
lol you’re funny.. There has only been three or four times in the history of America where the House has changed from a Republican majority to a Democrat majority….. it coincidentally seems to happen when the generation dies out, the generation that remembers what happens when democrats are in charge…

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is there a particular type of plastic i should look for to build a cheap green house?

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Question by xxxip: is there a particular type of plastic i should look for to build a cheap green house?
just wondering if i should use a certain type or grade? thanks!

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Answer by Isadora
Get clear plastic, 6 mil at a builder’s supply. It costs about $ 30. a hundred foot roll and will be enough to cover a small greenhouse with a double thickness that will last a couple of years. It is what I use on mine.

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The little House in the Map of Scott Pilgrim The Game?

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Question by Rabbit: The little House in the Map of Scott Pilgrim The Game?
I Have Beaten the game, and used the sound test unlock code to unlock the sound test.

I also know that the purple house to the right we can gain access to through the forest in stage 6.

But there is something that I am curious about. If you look near stage one on the bottom of the map there is a green house, is there any way to access that place?

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Answer by Ha!
No unless noclip.

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How do green house gases absorb and then re-radiate heat back to the earths surface?

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Question by : How do green house gases absorb and then re-radiate heat back to the earths surface?
Ok I know that green house gases retain some of the outgoing infrared radiation, but my question is how? On a sub-atomic scale, how does everything interact?
Thanks

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Answer by Paul B
This is actually quite a complicated question.

Greenhouse gases absorb energy from the outgoing infrared radiation. This happens fairly close to the ground. Then they re-radiate it to the gas higher up, and so on. At each stage, part of the radiation goes to heat the gas. The amount of radiation that each layer passes on depends on its temperature. The total amount of radiation eventually emitted depends on the temperature near the top of the atmosphere.

The more you have of a greenhouse gas, the higher up in the atmosphere the final emitting layer is. And since the higher you get, the colder, more greenhouse gas means a colder final emitting layer, and less energy lost to space.

This certainly makes the world much warmer than it otherwise would be, and informed scientific opinion is that with more than 90% certainty, anthropogenic greenhouse gases are contributing to increased warming at an unprecedented rate.

See

http://royalsociety.org/displaypagedoc.asp?id=20742

endorsed by the [US] National Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, , Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society (London). Over 40 other academies of national stature have issued similar statements:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change#Academies_of_Science

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displaypagedoc.asp?id=20742

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific

_opinion_on_climate_change

#Academies_of_Science)

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