25 Ways to Clean with Salt

One of your New Year’s resolutions (remember those?) might have been to eat less salt. And that’d be good, because here are 25 ways to use salt to clean your household items.

You can use salt to clean cookware, carpets, appliances, flooring. Read and ditch your chemical cleaners!

Read the 25 ways you can clean with salt at Networx.

Eco Friendly Beach House in Costa Rica

What a beautiful way to live off-grid!

This eco friendly beach house by Robles Arquitectos converts the typical beach home into a lesson in eco architecture. If not for any other reason, this lush location – Peninsula de Osa in Costa Rica, which claims five percent of the world’s biodiversity – has inspired an approach to eco friendly house design, construction and life. The home is part of an initiative by ISEAMI (Institute of Sustainability, Ecology, Art, Mind and Investigation), who’s head office happens to share the home on this densely palmed hillside hotspot. The main floor acts as a public space for investigation, meditation, training and yoga, while upstairs plays home to the Institute’s director. Endless beach views invited the architect to incorporate many balconies, sliding-glass walls and outdoor entertaining areas, blurring the boundary between indoors and out. In this eco house design, the architecture firm put their enviro-architecture theory, SDRA (Dynamic System Robles Arquitectos) to use, evaluating 10 factors including climate, energy, water, materials, environment, atmosphere, cost, innovation and passive methods of design and construction. This house, which is secluded about 30 minutes from the nearest town, is 100 percent self-sufficient, proving it is possible to live off the grid and on a level plane with some of the most stylish, luxuriously appointed homes out there. Robles Arquitectos

via Arch Daily

photo credit: Juan Robles

via Eco Friendly Beach House in Costa Rica | Modern House Designs.

Building a green home in Singapore

Impossible? No

A Challenge? You bet!

When I first strted Green Kampong is was because I wanted to share my experiences of building a green home in Singapore.. the site quickly evolved and became so much more and the house too grew from the ground up but not so rapidly.

In this new section I am going to share new technologies and experiences I have had.. Some of the stories will be about our home and others will just be things that I think you all may love.

I am also going to repost some of the old articles from the beginning of this blog just in case you missed them. Enjoy!