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	<title>Raising Spaces &#187; Welcome to Raising Spaces | Green Building Products | Sustainable Interior Design | Servicing Edmonton, Alberta and Beyond</title>
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		<title>Shingled Walls</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2010/12/shingled-walls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of the summer we decided to do a rain screen over top of our stuccoed straw bale walls. It took us a little longer than we had hoped and it was more work than we anticipated but I think the results look fantastic! It feels great to have the scaffolding put away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forestry, Gardens &amp; House Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 22:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past April I spent a week in the woods at MacPhail Woods taking a university course, Environmental Studies 209 – Ecological Forestry, learning about forest ecology, sustainable forestry practices, forest restoration and the Acadien Forests. It was an amazing experiential learning course and everything we learned has stayed with me and I think it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Window Coverings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Air Quality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The temptation has always been there for eco-house builders. It’s those damn windows; they are just so useless once the sun goes down. There must be some way to insulate them once they no longer need to be seen through, right? Moisture The answer is yes, but not cheaply. The biggest problem is moisture. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Support is Priceless</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2010/01/family-support-is-priceless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs - Andrea's Green Kitchen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, how the little things can make such a big difference! As some of you may have noticed, our green kitchen reno slowed to a stop. There has been nothing to report for several months, which was really demoralizing, especially as I prepared newsletters with updates from other bloggers who were building entire green homes from scratch! Meanwhile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations (Part 02)</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/12/observations-part-02/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mill Creek NetZero Home, December 15, 2009, 14:00. As we approach the winter solstice and the three-month anniversary of our moving in, we continue to learn about our new house. These observations are mostly qualitative, because we don’t have the rest of our solar modules up, and we haven’t set up monitoring equipment yet. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straw Bale Home Building Primer</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/12/straw-bale-home-building-primer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you want to build your own straw bale home.  You’ve seen them in green home building books and on TV shows, you saw green home builders wax poetic about their homes low impact on the environment and connection to the local ecology.  You’ve researched all the possible alternative home building techniques and the thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ventilation</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/11/ventilation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mill Creek NetZero Home Heat Recovery Ventilator I heard a story once about a man who built a house using insulated concrete forms (ICFs). While I don&#8217;t advocate their use in general, ICFs have some distinct advantages (certainly over conventional construction). The primary of these advantages is supreme air tightness. ICF homes (those that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concrete Floor Finish</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/11/concrete-floor-finish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best way that I can think of to add a large amount (20+ tonnes) of thermal mass to a solar home is by adding concrete floors. By doing this, one can get two uses, thermal storage and a finished floor,  out of the same investment. Furthermore, since the mass of a concrete floor is so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations (Part 01)</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/11/observations-part-01/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/11/observations-part-01/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conrad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mill Creek NetZero Home Living Room &#8211; finally some autumn sunshine! Have you ever noticed that as soon as you move in to a solar house the sun stops shining? It’s been overcast since the beginning of October here in Edmonton – since just after we moved into the Mill Creek NetZero Home – and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The last few months on the house!</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/10/the-last-few-months-on-the-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/10/the-last-few-months-on-the-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally I have gotten round to getting some photos uploaded! We are officially moved in, the mortgage has been completed, and we are “done”, although I don’t think the work will ever stop! There’s some niggly trim work to complete, a few touch-ups, there will be on-going stucco maintenance and inspections, fire wood to cut [...]]]></description>
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