Makerspaces: Making a Difference for the Planet

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Makerspaces: Making a Difference for the Planet

We’ve been doing Earth Day blogs for years, so coming up with a new Earth Day blog post topic was challenging.  Then, it turns out a topic was right under our noses.  Recently, Small Planet Supply joined Lacey MakerSpace.  We joined to be able to get comfortable with machinery we don’t have now but might purchase in the future.  However, once we learned more about what was available at makerspaces, there was several reasons why these spaces deserve a bit of recognition on Earth Day (and every day). 

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Indoor Air Quality During the Holiday Season

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Indoor Air Quality During the Holiday Season

The holiday season is a busy time of activities and excitement as families and friends come together to celebrate. Amidst the merriment, it's easy to overlook a crucial aspect of our surroundings—indoor air quality (IAQ). As you decorate your home and prepare holiday meals, potentially unidentified air quality issues that may catch you by surprise. In this blog post, Small Planet Supply delves into the indoor air quality challenges that the holiday season presents and offer actionable solutions to ensure fresher air for you, your family, and your guests.

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Five Building Trends We're Seeing as the World Opens Up

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Five Building Trends We're Seeing as the World Opens Up

The last month has seen an acceleration in the easing of Covid restrictions around the United States, and Canada is poised to start opening up soon. While we were all in our own Covid hibernation bubble, some pretty monumental shifts have occurred that will affect how we live and build both short and long term. Here are some of the things we’ve being seeing that may impact how you build.

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Savor this Summer with Small Planet’s Social Hour Suggestions

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Savor this Summer with Small Planet’s Social Hour Suggestions

The Year 2020 will probably be known for the explosion of the Zoom social hour. Whether you’re joining them for work functions, to keep in touch with family and friends, or to take advantage of an unprecedented opportunity to see the inside of other people’s homes, Zoom calls are definitely going to be a part of this summer’s activities.

The staff at Small Planet wanted to share some ways to increase your enjoyment of your Zoom social hours or (gasp) even in-person gatherings with some drink recipes, activities for the kids and some pictures.

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Just for Fun: Small Planet's "Fun Fact" Super Hero

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Just for Fun: Small Planet's "Fun Fact" Super Hero

In most workplaces, looking at meeting notes hardly qualifies as a pleasurable activity. Well, at Small Planet Supply we can hardly wait to open our weekly summaries because our Sales Associate Taylor Groebner livens it up with some strange and (sometimes weird) fun facts. If you’re one of our USA customers you’ve probably already been treated do Taylor’s cheerful efficient demeanor. But if you haven’t, these Fun Fact excerpts from her meeting notes will make your day. It certainly makes ours.

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Using a Change Model to Better Gauge Customer Readiness for Change

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Using a Change Model to Better Gauge Customer Readiness for Change

If you’re an architect or a high-performance builder, you may not think that you have much in common with behavioral health professionals, but in certain cases you’re doing the same work that we do: getting people to change their behavior.  If you’re one of the lucky architect/builders who only gets clients who are 100% motivated to build energy-efficient homes, this isn’t the article for you.  If you find yourself frustrated and unsure why a client who seemed really motivated just disappeared, this article might be worth a read.

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