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Safety Sunday: Protect your hearing

Have you ever heard a slight ringing in your ears, maybe after mowing, shooting, or attending a concert? That is the first sign that you may have damaged your hearing, or are about to – hopefully it is just limited to the ringing sound, and is not permanent. Unfortunately for me, I fall into the latter category, which is […]

Building Green Homes: Step 10 – Drywall & Finishes

This is the last article in this series on Looking Back & Looking Forward involving the actual building process. In the last nine articles, we have gone over the major steps from designing to building a green home we completed over 2 years ago, the lessons learned and more importantly, how one can utilize those […]

Something’s just never change

This week’s LetsBlogOff asks a not so simple question; are blogs as important as bloggers think they are? Hmm, that really looks like two questions in one. For the first part, is one’s blog important; if one answers no, then why do it – if one answers yes, are they not being a little self […]

Safety Sunday – Safety Glasses

For our inaugural Safety Sunday quick tip, I thought we would start with one of the most important tips brought up in our Labor Day Safety article. In the immortal words of Norm Abrahm, “there is no more important safety rule than to wear these (tap-tap) safety glasses.” In all honesty, I don’t always remember […]

The HTRC, Safety Sunday, & a few more Changes

The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov Just a little over 14 months ago, the Resource Center […]

RESNET & BPI – the Pro’s & Con’s

As I mentioned after my final class recap, I was considering two final articles; the first one was a recap of the training process, followed up by a comparison of the systems. Many people tend to believe that there is no difference between the systems, except for the CAZ testing required by BPI. I can […]

Facebook and the Blue Suede Shoes

If it’s Tuesday, and we utilized a wacky title, it must me another “Let’s Blog Off” post, right? Well you would be correct, and who could resist this one – “Do social sites like Facebook connect the world or isolate them?” As always, we will have a listing of the participating blogs at the end, […]