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Top Four Principles For a Green Business

To make it simple and concrete for you, each principle is paired with a specific business concern and four explicit green actions you can take. Think of it as a "tasting menu" to celebrate Earth Day.

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Going Green – Making Your Home More Eco-Friendly

From changing light bulbs to replacing your heating system, there are many ways to make your home more energy efficient and eco-friendly. Improvements can be simple or complex, but any can make a...

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Save Energy With Your Existing Hot Water Heater

Most of the recommendations which I have read involve replacing your home's water heater with a high efficiency water heater, namely a tankless gas water heater manufactured by Rinnai or Bosch. To...

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Ceiling Fans

Running a high-efficiency ceiling fan cost you as little as one dollar a month. Compare that to running a window air-conditioner at $50.00 a month, and you can see why they are called an energy saver....

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A Sustaining Stance – An Essay About Why Sustainability Should Be Important...

There are a only a finite number of avenues that can be pursued until it is realized that a new system must be installed. Agriculture at present is pinning final hopes on "bigger and better" machinery,...

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Green Building – What is It?

The oil crisis and the series of natural disasters are a wake up call to all of us. They remind us how fragile our modern lifestyles are and force us to accept the reality that all these conveniences...

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Energy Conservation Tips For the 21st Century

United States households alone are responsible for 21% of the global warming pollution that occurs in the world. This is more than the entire global warming output of the United Kingdom. It is clear we...

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Ways of Saving Coal…LA does it right!

Electricity, pretty powerful stuff, no pun intended… Electricity,  we all use it, and most of us on this planet have grown to rely on it constantly during the day and night. Energy for electricity...

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Rainwater harvesting supplies school children with water and education

What can survive with out water?  In a time of need rainwater harvesting supplies homes and landscapes with relatively clean and free water. The care and  management of water is becoming more and more...

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How to survive a tight budget in style: small houses are easy to build

  Most of us hate budgets, budgeting and most especially having to work with a small budget that maybe doesn’t quite “cover the household nut” . Whether voluntarily or by “divine intervention” smaller...

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