Rate Home Energy Efficiency

Rate Home Energy Effici...

Recycled lumber helps in framing If only there were a way to check out a home in the manner that really counts before buying: the monthly operating costs. Too often home owners get surprised with drafty homes, ill operation of fireplaces, gas guzzling heaters and energy dependent...
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Recyclo Journalism

Recyclo Journalism...

I’ll say this for the quality of journalism that hath not strained in previous decades to cover recycling or environmental issues except as onetime features or special pieces. If you grew in the 1970′s the general information pieces were not nearly as science informed...
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Stop the Curbing!

Stop the Curbing!...

The Curbing of America has got to stop. This tendency we have to roll the dice with leaving stuff by the curb, one wonders were it is all going. I like Freecycle better, and just have to assume when I see a site like the one above, the (former) owners have no literacy skills or would...
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Getting Green Done

Getting Green Done...

This book has some relevancies that many people would rather overlook in the rush to green practices. Getting Green Done: Hard Truths From the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution. Retrofits and LEED management is not easy when working with large commercial buildings and...
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Sustainability TODAY

Sustainability TODAY...

8 simple things you can do to further sustainability today:   1. A Spot of Gardening Survey your garden and look for a place to put in a temperature reducing plant, vine or trellis climbing bush. Mulch cools the soil and guard from weeds and evaporation. Make a cool space near a...
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Over Watering

Over Watering...

Over Watering Summer’s biggest sustainability crime is the practice of over watering plants and flowers due to incorrectly installed or adjusted sprinkler systems. Poor  sprinkler planning, deteriorated sprinkler equipment condition, faulty irrigation lines, and eroded areas...
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Why Sustainability Matt...

Dumpster Deadlock East Coast trash problems are causing plants to run into overdrive just as the need to reduce energy is paramount. The war on pollution means shutting down pollution problem incinerators. Burning versus burial for trash has been a debate that many environmental watchdogs...
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Green Your Biz

Green Your Biz...

Lessened Resources Mean Less Yield Don’t wait for the memo. Green your business now. Here are the top 5 choices to bring your company or business into the green century. Adopt one or more of these sustainable living and sustainable working resource management methods and social...
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Biocontrol

Biocontrol...

Margin of green returns is becoming clear. No longer can companies be allowed to do business as if the environmental cost was not visible and accountable. Practices and policies for the green revolution have become baseline reality for many industries. But today evaluations are taking...
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Freecycling Junk

Freecycling Junk...

As continued efforts into recycling continue, the birth of the recycling movement can be raced to the offshoots of industrialization. Consumer packaging, urban densities, advertising, and novelty, as well as convenience, have caused package refuse and landfill garbage to reach new...
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