Turn off the AC

Turn off the AC...

In writing about the electronics practices of businesses to winterize green, an observed stumbling block emerged. When businesses and home thermostats should be set to 68 degrees, a lot of public buildings are set to cool air to a much lower temperature. Now, how can that be green?...
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More Ways to Increase Fuel Efficiency

More Ways to Increase F...

More winterizing tips 1. Hold Heater ‘Office Hours” Turning the thermostat down to 68 degrees is wonderful, if the whole family doesn’t get sick and start missing school and work. Get the family used to “office hours”, a set time each evening and morning...
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Is Las Vegas Green?

Is Las Vegas Green?...

Petropolitics aside, the broad desert spans of Nevada could be soaking up solar energy in record waves. The old saying what happens in Las Vegas stays in Vegas is never more untrue than in the waste disposal analysis and energy consumption of this desert oasis of sustainability reason. Green...
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Grow Your Holiday Cheer

Grow Your Holiday Cheer...

This wheelbarrow sacrifices rain catchment Is your budget thin this year for Christmas gift giving and holiday cheer? Gift exchanges are a cemented part and parcel of the consumative volcano that is the Western holiday season. And it’s too bad, because the mountains of wrapped...
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Recycled Junk Bonds

Recycled Junk Bonds...

Green investors rushing to cash in on the wave of alt-fuel, eco-friendly sustainable living technologies, products, and markets may be spinning their square wheels. The day of the eco-friendly business may truly be here.   Green investing means good news to sustainability ventures...
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Green 365

Green 365...

The separation between green living and green thinking comes together in the book 365 Ways to Live Green. if you are looking for a ay to get your Christmas shopping done early, work your way through a discounted bulk price of these puppies. Giving green is the gift that keeps on...
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Why do people need dish...

Why do people need dishwashers? This is a question I ask myself every time I read about dishwasher uses and dishwasher safe detergents and dishwashers that work on more or less energy, and why people are using dishwashers for whatever purpose is now confusing. If you are in the...
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The Dishwasher is for DISHWASHING

The Dishwasher is for D...

I take exception to the growing trend of urging folks to use their dishwasher to perform services or render effects the machine was not built for.  Dishwashers, electric or not, conservational or not, are the lazy man’s luxury as it is. But why would you go to the trouble...
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Solar Decathlon Winners

Solar Decathlon Winners...

Team California won the Solar Decathlon in Washington D. C., for Architecture and Communications, and the University of Lousiana at Lafayette for won for Market Viability. More categorical wins will be announced. The Solar Decathlon houses will be open in the National Mall for public...
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Once More Into the Breach…

Once More Into the Brea...

Dam-cam Oregon: In Grant’s Pass, Oregon, the dam came tumbling down. On purpose. And the people threw up their hands and cheered…And if the fish could cheer they would throw up their fins in glee. Activists fighting their hardest to save the fish beating themselves against...
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