http://nhpr.org en http://nhpr.org/post/living-building-challenge <p><strong>EarthTalk®<br>E - The Environmental Magazine</strong></p> Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000 19767 at http://nhpr.org The Living Building Challenge http://nhpr.org/post/greening-hotel-industry <p><strong>EarthTalk®<br> E - The Environmental Magazine</strong></p><p><br><strong><u>Dear EarthTalk</u>: In recent years the hotel industry began to green up operations, but has it yet gone beyond leaving out little cards to encourage you to re-use your towels and linens?</strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <em>-- Mason Singer, St. Louis, MO</em></p><p></p> Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:56:22 +0000 EarthTalk 14090 at http://nhpr.org Greening Up The Hotel Industry http://nhpr.org/post/making-carpentry-noble-walpole-builders-team-french-guild <p>This week a home-building company in Walpole New Hampshire is playing host to 21 carpentry French apprentices, who in two days are building a replica of Thoreau&rsquo;s Walden Pond Cabin. The exchange program hopes to do more than teach kids how to swing a hammer; It&#39;s just one way these builders are working to blend the old and the new.</p><p>Just north of Keene, Walpole New Hampshire is a quiet, unassuming spot. Though, quiet can be a relative term when the hammers and saws at <a href="http://www.bensonwood.com/">Bensonwood Homes </a>get going.</p> Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:43:37 +0000 Sam Evans-Brown 8683 at http://nhpr.org Making Carpentry Noble: Walpole Builders Team With French Guild