The 907 - Deconstruction

Being the environmentally-conscious family that we are, what with composting pretty much everything coming out of the kitchen and my shredder, and using it in the garden,

we didn't want to just throw all of our old house into the landfill.  Plus, there was a lot of really good stuff that could easily be reused.  After some research, we chose to donate our old house to Second Chance, a charity out of Baltimore that gets as much leverage as possible out of each donation.  They use the deconstruction process itself to provide job training, they reuse an amazing amount of materials from the donated houses, and they then sell the reclaimed materials in their store in Baltimore.  The amount of material that ends up being sent to the landfill is a fraction of what would otherwise be landfilled.  Great benefits all around.