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What Can You Do to Slow Down Global Warming? Help Prevent Global Warming with These Household Tips

Surprisingly enough your family’s home can produce more pollution than the average gas operated car, so it is time to start taking some action! There are different ways that you can reduce your home’s yearly gas emission levels on any budget. Don’t let your home be an enemy to the ozone layer.

7 comments    environment global warming
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The Pros and Cons of Solar Energy

In our continuing efforts to live a greener life we have been contemplating solar panels for our roof. Of course there are pros and cons to using solar energy, but it seems to me that the advantages outweigh...

10 comments    energy environment solar energy
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Plastic Bottle Numbers: What do they Mean?

The numbers with the recycling symbol around them on the bottom of plastic bottles are part of the resin identification coding system made by the Society of Plastics Industry. Each number simply tells you...

3 comments    education environment recycling
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Plug-In Electric Hybrid Vehicles

Can you imagine a day when you may never have to go to the gas pump again? Sound like science fiction? What about America's love affair with oil? Maybe its time to start breaking up. In the not-too-distant...

18 comments    technology energy cars
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Straw Bale Home Construction: A Labor of Love

So you’ve checked out the concept of a straw bale home, talked to several owners of one of these gems and your current monthly utility bill’s...

7 comments    eco living green buildings
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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...

45 comments    home environment recycling
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Hanging your clothes out to dry vs using your dryer.

Well folks, for us here in good ol' Virginie spring has sprung and what a glorious thing it is. As a child, and still as an adult, for me the advent of spring heralds the time for hanging my clothes outside...

1 comment    home clothes laundry
Earthship homes can be built in a variety of locations. A warm, desert setting is not required. In fact, a southern-facing mountain setting could be ideal.78

Living Large...Off the Grid

I remember driving through Taos, New Mexico with my husband noticing an unusual cluster of homes—a colony of small mounds, with windows peering west—their eyes wide open, built right into the side of the...

4 comments    life technology home
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How to Live Green

The average person can't go "totally green" without an extraordinary amount of time, effort, and upfront money. In fact, even trying to do so would just be way too overwhelming and would, at least for me, be...

9 comments    how environment global warming
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Green Living Tips ♥

Cancer Causers In Your Home and DIY Solar Power Energy Given poor government regulation, many of the cleaning products available on the market contain "everyday" carcinogens such as formaldehyde,...

1 comment    global warming solar power renewable energy
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