This re-designed Wellfleet round house touches down lightly on its site, standing on cylindrical concrete piers and a small octagonal service foundation. This allows the wind blown sand of the coastal bank to move freely around the structure avoiding scouring and erosion. The many windows on the south side of the structure allow for passive [...]
Sun Power: Harnessing Solar Rays for Home & Business Cape Cod might not be sun-drenched like the Southwest, but more people are taking another look at solar power for clean energy. “We actually have a good resource for solar,” says Luke Hinkle, president and CEO of My Generation Energy in South Dennis. “It’s the cool, [...]
Sea-Inspired Ecofashion Growing up in Chatham, Taylor Brown, 29, spent her summers playing at the fish pier, watching her dad unloading his catch and observing the summer people and what they were wearing. “The fish pier was a hub of intrigued vacationers, second home owners, and city people from New York, Boston and Europe,” she [...]
HEALTHY, VIBRANT LAWNS yield Great Returns A chemically treated lawn exists on life support, observes Finbarr Phelan, a landscape contractor for 28 years and owner of Cape Cod SafeLawns and Landscapes in Hyannis. There are no earthworms or soil biology nourishing the plants’ root systems. Roots are shallow and require extensive watering. Chemical fertilizer, used [...]
Green Skies Ahead for Cape Air Cape Air’s Green Initiative director, Jim Wolf, has for many years been a master storyteller on the Outer Cape. “I know the power of stories. I know we need to have the good ones told,” he says. Now in his corporate role in charge of transforming a heavy energy-consuming [...]
Walk into the design showroom at Terrene in South Yarmouth, and you’d be surprised that the building materials on display are environmentally friendly from top to bottom. Colorful, recycled glass tiles glisten on countertops and backsplashes. Renewable hardwoods add warmth to cabinets and floors. And nontoxic wall finishes in natural hues create a soothing surrounding. [...]
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