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Greening Your Electric Bill

Are you looking to reduce your carbon footprint and save some bucks on your electric bill?  Your alternatives are to reduce your energy consumption, or install solar panels or wind turbines to produce low...

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Sustainable Agriculture - Best Practices For Sustainable Food Production

we are beginning to look at current food production practices with an eye to how these critical systems function, and more importantly, how we can improve them...education; zero tillage; sustainable food production, biodiversity; use of chemical agents; redefining land use; crop rotation; traditional methods

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Sheeps Wool Insulation, a Natural, and Environmentally Friendly Insulator

A friend recently passed me a clipping that she had kept from the Daily Mail newspaper, about a lady who was living in an energy efficient house that she'd insulated with lamb's wool. This immediately...

8 comments    environment solar energy recycle
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Tiny Houses Have A Big Impact

It started in 1997 in Iowa City when Jay Shafer built his first tiny house. Now tiny houses have hit the bigtime. The movement is growing. Tiny houses are the next big thing.

102 comments    life home real estate
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Confessions of an eco-sceptic: how I came to believe in natural causes of global warming

I've rethought my beliefs on global warming and become one of the global warming skeptics. Global warming is not man made, and carbon trade causes more problems than it solves.

29 comments    environment global warming
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The Top 5 Benefits To Installing a Woodburning Stove

Hey Good Looking! Ask most anyone what they think about woodburning stoves and the first words out of their mouth are likely to include something about looking and feeling good. We're drawn by some basic...

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Climate Change and Global Warming - What They Mean for Us

Not so long ago, just 50 years to be exact, my father was posted at Poona, then a small Army cantonment town four hours away from the mind-numbing madness of the big city of Bombay. Poona is now Pune and...

57 comments    india nature environment
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How to live green, choices to help the environment

What can you do to live green? What can you do to help the environment and reduce your carbon footprint? There are so many choices and options available that the average person can do. These things don't have...

43 comments    home environment recycling
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Talking about strategies to fight Global Warming

As most people know, Global Warming has had a great deal of interest taken to it in recent years.  What was once not even worth a second thought, has now become one of the biggest delemas of our time.  How...

0 comments    alternative energy
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Eco-Friendly, Organic Hiking Boots

If you love hiking and are concerned about the environment then eco friendly hiking boots may be just what you are looking for. This footwear is made of sustainable materials. Many manufacturers plan for the...

3 comments    environment shoes hiking
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