Green Tour Workshops
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1. Creating a Healthy, Residue Free Home
Blue Sky Services
Minimize exposure to chemicals, allergens and toxins in your home. Learn how to create healthy and residue free homes
2. Sealing Air Leaks in Your Existing Home
The Small Planet Workshop
Air sealing is one of the simplest and least expensive ways to increase the energy performance of your home.
3. Infrared Imaging to Warm your Home
Northwest Infrared
Bust through energy-saving myths and learn what steps you can take to reduce your house’s energy consumption. Discussion will range from whether costly solutions are worth the expense to simple, proven, low-cost ways you can effectively lower your heat bills. Speaker: Brent Foster, owner Northwest Infrared, Olympia, WA
4. A Built Green® Home: Affordable & Comfortable
Olympia Master Builders / Scott Homes
Built Green® homes are designed to provide homeowners with comfortable, durable, environmentally friendly homes that are cost-effective to own and operate.
5. Clean, Green & Chemical Free @ Home
H2O at Home
Come learn and explore natural & innovative products designed to make cleaning your home or office simple and safe. Understand how you can live more naturally, with less chemicals, in less time and with more savings.
6. Heating Healthy Costs Less with Infrared Heaters
TruGreen Technologies
BioSmart® infrared heaters, green building, energy efficient, healthy home interiors
7. When Bad Things Happen to Good Houses
Cameo Home Inspection
Come see how bad it can get inside your walls, and what you can do about it. Larry Stamp and Cameo Home Inspection will share housing horror stories and provide easy solutions to your rot and moisture control issues.
8. Energy Efficiency from Start to Finish
Thurston Energy
You too can make your house green, and Thurston Energy can help. Attend this workshop to learn how to get on the Pathway to Savings.
Integrated Environmental Systems at Hands On Children’s Museum
Berschauer Phillips & Sunset Air
Berschauer Phillips and Sunset Air will give educational tours of the building’s advanced energy, heating and ventilation systems, carefully integrated with automated intelligent control systems for optimal environmental performance and efficiency.
Natural Paints, plasters and breathable wall systems
Ion Ecobuilding
Come learn how the GRuB Farmhouse used Earthen Clay plasters, milk paints and natural stuccos to create spaces of natural beauty, Discover the health & environmental benefits of natural materials
Tour LOTT's Heating and Reclaimed Water Systems
LOTT Clean Water Alliance
Learn how the LOTT Clean Water Alliance will supply heat and reclaimed water to the new Hands On Children's Museum.
Tour the New Hand’s On Children’s Museum
The New Home of Sand in the City 2012!
Museum staff and board will give sneak peek public tours of the new building, with a brief description of exhibits, educational programs and other highlights to expect when the new Museum opens in the Fall.


