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Articles about green living (0-50 of 3152)
- Add Eco-friendly Cooking To Your Green Living
By: Ruthan Brodsky | - Ways to save energy in your kitchen go a long way to making your lifestyle and your home eco-friendly. Many of us are concerned about our furnace and air conditioner but there are dozens of smaller things you can pay attention to in your kitchen to live as green as you can. We want to reduce our carbon footprint and our ecological footprint.
To start reducing that footprint in your kitchen, think how you cook your food, the type of energy you use for your range, dishwasher and fri ...
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- It Took A Recession To Push Green Living Into The Mainstream
By: SA HOME | - While home improvement retail giant Home Depot is feeling the effects of the down economy, and has decided to close its 34 Expo Design Centers, a new home improvement retailer is taking root: Green Depot. Green Depot, which has no relation to Home Depot, recently opened a 3,500-square foot store in downtown Manhattan. The eco-based hardware store, which sells basics such as paint, as well as kitchen cabinets, flooring, and insulation, originated with the Brooklyn-based supplier of green building ...
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- Throwing Money And Energy Out Your Windows
By: Ruthan Brodsky | - No questions whether windows are necessary in your home or office. They are a source of light, a source for a view and a source for air circulation depending upon the temperature. However, when it comes to energy, windows can cost you a bundle. The fact is that windows which do not have much insulation can be costing you up to 35 percent of your energy bills.
Before you think of becoming more energy efficient by replacing your windows, think about ways in which you can repair you ...
Tags: Ruthan Brodsky, green living, windows, energy efficient windows, drafty windows,
- What's Green Living All About? Facts And Myths About Organic Living
By: Marty Richardson | - When you hear someone say 'green living' or 'go green', are your eyes alight with curiosity? Or do you think that since you 'reduce, reuse and recycle', you're living green? If you're like most people today, you do the standard 'green' things, almost entirely unaware that there's a greener, cleaner world of options available to you. The truth is, opportunities to live better, cleaner and healthier abound. Cleaning green, eating organic, being kind to the environment, urban gardening and incorpor ...
Tags: organic living, green living, eating organic, cleaning green, living green, eat organic, standard green
- Throwing Money And Energy Out Your Windows
By: Ruthan Brodsky | - No questions whether windows are necessary in your home or office. They are a source of light, a source for a view and a source for air circulation depending upon the temperature. However, when it comes to energy, windows can cost you a bundle. The fact is that windows which do not have much insulation can be costing you up to 35 percent of your energy bills.
Before you think of becoming more energy efficient by replacing your windows, think about ways in which you can repair you ...
Tags: Ruthan Brodsky, energy efficient home, save energy, replace windows, green living, energy efficient
- Energy Saving Tips Using Your Thermostat
By: Ruthan Brodsky | - Twenty years ago thermostats were turned up and down for comfort levels with absolutely no thought to saving energy. In fact, the wars over the thermostat are legendary in most families. There is usually one spouse who wants the house over 72 degrees and the other who wants the temperature at least 68.
Today amnesty has been declared! Energy efficient homes and saving money now take precedent regarding where to set the thermostat.
Finding and setting the right temp ...
Tags: Ruthan Brodsky, green living, going green, energy efficient home, saving energy, eco friendly
- Living Green At Your Vacation Home
By: Justin Havre | - During the week you do all the right things to encourage a green lifestyle. You diligently separate your garbage, recycle what you can, add to a backyard composter, use energy saving lightbulbs and use a programmable thermostat. Then, the weekend comes and off you go to your lakeside cabin and all of this green thinking goes out the window. Out come the paper plates, you crank up the electric heat, BBQ twice a day and throw all your recyclables into the garbage.
Green living, means ...
Tags: vacation homes, green living, green vacation homes, green home
- Boomers Learn To Keep Their Home Safe From Harmful Chemicals
By: Ruthan Brodsky | - Think about recycling and the first thing to pop into your head is not the damage that is done to the earth when you use chemically laden products at home. Recycling is about reducing waste, recycling products and reusing what can be reused, but it is also abut protecting the earth from poison.
Harming the environment is not something you set out to do. Using unsafe products to clean your home and work place is a long time habit, however. not realizing products can be harmful to ...
Tags: Ruthan Brodsky, green living, baby boomers, green cleaning products, safe cleaning products,
- Top Five Reasons To Build Your Own Solar Panels
By: KN Singer | - Building your own solar panels may be easier than you think. As a matter of fact, if you have a little time on your hands, you can build your own solar panels over the course of a weekend, for between $100 and $200. There are a lot of good reasons to build your own solar panels. Here are a few of them.
1. Building your own solar panels is a lot cheaper than buying them.
One of the biggest reasons that solar panels aren't more popular is that they are simply very e ...
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- Converting Your Small Business Into A Green Business
By: Susan Mayer | - As the world moves towards a more globally accepted environmental solution, there is an increasing responsibility being placed upon individuals and businesses to adopt a greener outlook.
Businesses are being scrutinised more now than at any time in the past. Legislation dictates that rules and procedures are stringently adhered to in a series of areas including utility use, waste disposal and emissions.
Although much of this legislation has a bigger impac ...
Tags: green living, green business, green movement,
- Making The Switch To Green Safe Cleaning Products
By: Al Haneson | - It's hip to be "green" these days. People are moving into green, environmentally friendly homes. They're working in green offices, and they're driving green cars. It makes sense, then, that more people are turning to green cleaning supplies to keep their homes and workplaces clean.
Today, most department stores and grocery stores stock green cleaning supplies on their shelves. Shoppers can easily find everything from environmentally friendly counter cleaners and toilet-bowl cleans ...
Tags: natural, organic, green living
- Going Green: What Does It Really Mean?
By: Frances Robinson | - You hear a lot of talk about saving the environment in the news, on talk shows and just about everywhere you turn these days. Terms like "green friendly", "green energy" and "green technology" are often used among others. What do these "green" terms really mean?
The sole purpose of "going green" is to use products and methods that won't negatively impact the environment with pollution or deplete natural resources. While there is still some skepticism about the dangers of global warm ...
Tags: going green, green living, alternative, renewable, environmentally friendly
- Conservation: Grey Water Reclamation For Green Living
By: Lesa Parham | - In every home, clean water is pumped in, used, and then either sewage or grey water is flushed out. Grey water is the term used to describe water that has been used for something in the home but is not contaminated with fecal waste. This grey water is routed out of your home into the sewer just like sewage is, but it could instead be used more constructively than just getting flushed down the drain.
The benefits to reusing grey water are pretty obvious. Since there are a number o ...
Tags: green living, grey water, water usage, home water usage, home improvements
- Virtual Offices Are Green
By: David Nikolic | - Reducing overheads is often the best solution for businesses looking to survive in this tough economic condition. One way of doing so is to switch from occupying premises to running a business from a virtual office-an option an increasing number of Americans are doing. Businesses are becoming greener, because it makes sense.
Todays technologies make it possible to communicate with staff and members instantaneously from any point on the globe at any time. The use of new tec ...
Tags: green offices, eco friendly offices, environment friendly offices, green living, green business.
- Improve Your Vegetable Garden! Green Living Tricks To Enhance Your Green Thumb Success
By: C.L. Carr | - When it comes to gardening, there are some additional benefits to just having your own fruits and vegetables. Not only can you be a "green" thumb, but you can be a contributor to the "green" living movement by recycling common household "garbage" items into useful, and helpful, garden utensils.
Take the common soup can. By removing the top AND bottom lids, this cylinder becomes a useful starting pot. Removing the top and bottom lids will help aid in the removal of your plant start wi ...
Tags: organic vegetable garden, gardening tips, recycling, green living, organic living, backyard garden
- How To - Off-grid Living
By: Desial Davidson | - Off grid living will make you more independent and give you a control on your life. It will also help you get accustomed for all the services that you have been paying to others. They will help you to be independent and you will be able to cater to your own needs.
These kinds of services are usually used by the people living in remote areas. The off grid services have never been so easily available as today. People are looking for ways which can help them live at their own place ...
Tags: green living, sustainable, green, go green, living green
- How To Live Green Through Frugality & Simplicity
By: Desial Davidson | - Living green through frugality and simplicity does not mean living without the necessities or doing it without the luxuries. Its all about value, flexibility and choice, the basic aim is to reduce the cost, consumption and clutter. It talks about how to spend carefully in order to save more than what you spend.
Frugal living cannot be termed as buying only the necessities but also going for the luxury every now and then. The best is to prepare a plan and follow it religio ...
Tags: green living, sustainable, green, go green, living green
- Choose Cleaning Products As Eco-friendly
By: Thanate Tan | - Can your house to clean, without knowing about Eco friendly products? Some of these chemicals we used to clean the air in our homes are a negative effect. If you knew when you are cleaning, I have actually been released for the health of your family in danger, do not want to change? Many people believe that to clean the house has a smell of chlorine or other cleaning products from the factory. This is not all of the case. You can choose environmentally friendly cleaning products to keep your hom ...
Tags: Go Green, going green, green living, planting trees, ECO
- Save The Planet By Go Green
By: Thanate Tan | - The ozone layer has diminished constantly in the last decades and the mountains of trash have grown bigger and bigger from year to year. The concentration of dangerous gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide or methane endangers peoples life more than ever. Besides that, the forests are getting less day by day and a lot of animal species are disappearing every decade.
To stop, or at least minimize the effects of pollution on Earth people should have more respect towar ...
Tags: Go Green, going green, green living, planting trees, Eco fri
- Green Wind Energy Build Your Own Wind Generator
By: Norman Stanley | - You may be wondering why you need to build a wind generator when you can just purchase one, but commercial wind generators can cost in the thousands to buy. The materials needed to build a wind generator, the DC motor, batteries, towers and hub, are fairly cheap. It is possible to build a wind generator for under $500 and that means realizing the return on your investment years before you would have buying a professionally installed commercial model. Even if you pay for better quality materials ...
Tags: green wind energy, renewable energy, green living, wind turbines
- New Home Products For Eco-friendly Living
By: Tim Ryan | - Having an eco-friendly home requires more than just installing bamboo floors and having a composter in the kitchen; it's also important to change our everyday behaviors. Fortunately, as the green movement continues to gain momentum, more and more products are becoming available to help regular people like us lead greener lives.
The Bware Water Usage Monitoring Meter is a new green gadget that attaches to toilets, faucets, and showers, and shows homeowners how much water they're u ...
Tags: green living, eco homes, home improvements, green home products, eco-friendly products
- Staying Organized While Living Green
By: Phillip Dye | - For people who have chosen to live a green lifestyle, manufacturers have produced new storage solutions in recycled and renewed metals, wood, and plastics.
These varieties offer solutions to crowded apartments, houses, and gardens by utilizing individual components designed to relieve storage problems for busy life styles.
A variety of simple solutions can also be tailor-made by your self. Whether you need a fully built-in closet or some more simple closet solution ...
Tags: home, improvment, home repair, green living
- Is Green Living Important For You?
By: Phillip Dye | - "Earth Two," the concept of a place where humans might eventually be forced to evacuate to, has long been the subject of science fiction. After all, with 6.75 Billion people living on Earth One, each pouring out carbon, our landfills are overflowing and our resources are quickly becoming scarce.
It is quite conceivable that the day will come when Earth One can no longer support humanity, forcing us to find a new place to call home. Unless we begin acting now to conserve our na ...
Tags: home, improvment, home repair, green living
- Guide To Making Your Home "green"
By: Phillip Dye | - The past few decades have seen concern for the environment rise incredibly. Recently, global warming and its effects have become major political and social issues.
Responsibility has been placed upon the individual to recognize their carbon footprint and lessen their impact on the environment. The home is a good place to start this process.
Going green is a big commitment. Green movement leaders have called for extreme measures that are often very ambitious for th ...
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- A Beginner's Guide To Living Green
By: Phillip Dye | - Walking down the aisles of the local grocery store, you can find hundreds of chemicals available for many uses. Most people use these chemicals daily without thinking about the effect on health or environment, but many of these compounds are harmful and take generations to dissolve in landfills.
There are green alternatives to the chemicals used in businesses and homes. Natural cleaners also cost less and smell better than chemicals.
For easy shower and tile cleanin ...
Tags: home, improvment, home repair, green living
- "green Rooms" Not Just For Tv Studios Anymore
By: Phillip Dye | - The term green room is usually associated with the backstage room where television guests will wait for their turn to come onstage, but with the recent boom in environmental awareness, green rooms are taking on a whole new meaning.
Most of the talk concerning environmentally friendly housing is about new construction, but not everyone concerned with the environment can afford to go out and buy a new house. With that in mind, here are a few tips on how to make the rooms in your ...
Tags: green, green home, home energy, green living
- The Opportunity Is Ripe For Green Entrepreneurs
By: Larryburke | - The "Green Age" is a global transformation similar in magnitude to the "Information Age." Wall Street investment bank, Goldman Sachs, concluded environmental businesses will earn over 1 trillion dollars by 2010. President-elect Obama's Administration will make energy and the environment a top priority. The opportunity to create a sustainable start-up has never been better.
While oil continues to come down below $50 per barrel, we still need alternative energy sources, educatio ...
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- Build Wealth By Green Investing
By: Larryburke | - In today's depressive stock market it is hard to find a silver lining. Green investing is a way to feel good about your stocks and mutual funds while having the potential to make a healthy return on investment. Socially responsible investing makes sense during the corruption on Wall Street and the search for alternative energy sources.
Green investing is finally coming into the mainstream. People can do what's right for the environment and build wealth too! Socially responsible invest ...
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- Organic Composting Is Eco Friendly And Easy
By: Al Haneson | - Compost is an excellent additive for your garden or flower bed and is a great way to start your "living green" lifestyle. It's also one of the best mulches and soil supplements. In addition, it's cheap and easy to make.
Everyone has most of the things they need to make compost right in their home. There are many places you can go to find some composting tips to help you get starting making your own compost. If you've ever started a garden or flower bed for the first time, you kno ...
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- Americans Want Green Homes!
By: Carol Freyer | - It seems that the recent inflationary setbacks of the past months have caused many of us to rethink our life-styles. Home buyers are now placing energy efficiency high on their list of wants.
This means that small improvements to your home that can be listed as 'green' will be a selling plus in this new environment. Switching to 'green' is supported by a recent survey published by Move.com and echoes findings from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
T ...
Tags: green living, green homes, home improvements, money saving, green real estate
- Generate Your Own Green Energy
By: Ryan M Johnson | - Transform your house to a green energy source by generating inexpensive electricity that will power each appliance.
If you want a surefire source of cheap electricity then you should consider purchasing a small turbine that can be erected in a backyard capable of generating enough green energy electricity for your home. Surplus electricity generated from wind turbines allow you to money by selling energy back to your local power company.
Wind turbines have come a ...
Tags: living green, green living, solar power, windmill turbine, green energy
- How To Live The Green Life
By: Paul Hata | - As global warming continues to be a major concern for the future of our planet, people are starting to turn to green living practices to help save it for future generations. Green living involves every aspect of our daily lives - from driving to work to mowing our lawns.
Making the switch to green living all at once might scare most people away from implementing those earth-friendly changes. However, there are many ways to ease into this practice and help save the environment.
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- Solar Water Heater
By: Curtis Reddehase | - A single tank solar water heating system combines solar preheated water and backup heating into one tack, which is in contrast to a typical two tank systems which will separate these functions. In either case solar water heating systems can save 55% to 85% on your water heating costs. Since water heating is the second largest energy guzzler in your home this can mean some serious savings in the future. Most single tank solar water heaters feature a 240 watt electric heating element in the top ha ...
Tags: solar, water, heating, energy, effiecient, renewable, carbon, footprint, green, living
- Wikiverde: Avenue For Views On Green Living And Natural Health
By: Vikram kuamr | - In the world where people discriminate races and color, there is no better way to look for common ground than to focus at the place we live inthe Earth. Despite living in different places, seasons, and areas on the globe, people experience environmental catastrophes at least once in every year. If the catastrophe is naturally occurring, there is nothing much that can be done about it yet it poses some great sympathy and concern from every human being on earth. No one can bear the effects of t ...
Tags: Environment, sustainability, natural health, organic food, Green Living
- Natural Health And Green Living Are Ways For Sustained Life
By: Vikram kuamr | - The best way to protect your self from diseases is to live a healthy lifestyle and clean environment. These two factors are somehow related and directly affect one another. If you have a healthy lifestyle but you live in an environment that is untidy and dirty, you can still be prone to diseases. In the same way, if you live in areas that are generally clean but you smoke, do not eat well, or have little sleep, you can easily get sick. Both scenario shows that you cannot live one and disregard t ...
Tags: Environment, sustainability, natural health, organic food, Green Living
- Tips For Green Living In The Home
By: Claire Campbell | - Do you care about the environment and your health, but want to be stylish with your home dcor at the same time? Luckily, there are plenty of green living options that can be implemented in your home in order to create a great look while remaining eco-friendly.
Making Sustainable Choices
Making sustainable choices are an important component of green living. Making sustainable choices means purchasing products that dont cause a negative impact on the environmen ...
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- The Rise In The Trend Of Green Living
By: IC | - More eco-friendly enthusiasts are coming out of the woodwork every year. The effects of global warming on our environment are increasing in its awareness and more people want to help make the earth a livable place for future generations to come.
Green living is on the rise all across the globe, not just in the United States. In many areas across the world, recycling has taken off and in some cases, has become a way of life. Some cultures find recycling a necessity because their ow ...
Tags: green living, environment, environment friendly, society
- Eat Green
By: Leah Guy | - Your parents always said you need to eat your veggies.(I can still hear those words, can't you?) And, as usual, they were right. Greens are packed with nutrients: antioxidants, fiber, vitamins and minerals (and very few calories) to keep your body feeling great and looking fabulous! Here are a couple of ideas to increase the green in your life A dinner creation by yours truly, and a green powder that is superb for on-the-go lifestyles. Try 'em, you might just like 'em.Mikey does!
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- Live Green, Be Cool
By: Leah Guy | - Here's the deal...an eco-friendly lifestyle is a choice (an uber-cool one by the way) but it doesn't have to complicate your life. You don't have to put windmills in your front yard or spend your whole retirement on solar panels (although both options would be fantastically cool!) What you could do, however, is become more aware of fundamental environmental concerns, and with that be proactive to make a difference.
What we get from the Earth (and take for granted):
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