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Articles about green movement (0-50 of 937)
- Green Investment Trends
By: Kevin long | - If finance experts are to be believed, green investment is still worth despite the global economic blues. Sustainable investment options are set to become more attractive in the long run with the incorporation of the eco-stimulus. Currently, green stocks are showing stable returns on investments and investors who care about how and where their money is being used are opting for the go green option.
Investment can be a great way of making money if done in a logical and systema ...
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- Eco Banking: The Latest Trend In Green Remodeling
By: SA HOME | - As the green movement evolves, being ecological for mainstream Americans has gone from aluminum recycling to using compact florescent light bulbs to buying energy efficient appliance...and perhaps, some day, to where and how one banks.
While traditional banks including Bank of America, Harris and Chase already offer green-tailored services and products, this new breed of eco bank is taking the niche to a new level.
In early June, the Chicago Tribune reported a growing t ...
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- Has Green Building And Remodeling Hit The Tipping Point?
By: SA HOME | - The National Home Builders Association reported in recent weeks that more than 3,100 builders, remodelers, designers and others in the construction business have earned the designation Certified Green Professional. Maybe you're among the growing, enterprising group, who have jumped into the green movement with your hammer and power tools ready. And if you're not, maybe you should be.
More than 200 single-family homes, remodeling projects and developments in 43 states have received N ...
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- Green Home Building Certifications
By: David Sands | - There are several ways to help make your home meet guidelines and gain certification for greener standards. Reasons for doing so may vary, but most people are ready to join the green movement and start living a more sustainable lifestyle. Other reasons might be that a particular certification will allow the home to qualify for special financing or participate in some desirable program. It might also be that the certification will make the home more desirable for resale, increasing it's value and ...
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- Doing Our Part: The Benefits Of The Organic Movement
By: Art Gib | - When organic growers came to the forefront of public consciousness nearly 25 years ago, most of the public didn't pay attention and conventional agricultural growers dismissed the organic crowd as nutty with far-fetched philosophies and goals. Well, time has proven the worth of the organic movement in North America and across the world. With so much attention being drawn to our lifestyle's negative effects on the environment, more people are doing their part to reduce, reuse, recycle, and go org ...
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- Recycle And Get Green
By: Janet Davis | - Blue disposal bins, catchy three-word slogans, signs asking users to separate green glass from clear glass, 'paper or cardboard only' disposal receptacles - these are just a few of the visible signs of the modern recycling movement. Recycling has been a major issue since human beings first started forming organized societies. Renaissance armies would melt down old, worn out cannons to reclaim some copper instead of having to dig it out again.
The Great Depression made it difficu ...
Tags: Recycling, going green, reuse, environment, recycle, green
- Frequently Asked Bamboo Questions And Answers
By: David Sands | - Bamboo is often referred by many people as being a tree, others are quick to call a grass. Some people will tell you that it takes a long time to grow, others would say that it literally shoots up over-night. Do you know the basic facts about this fascinating plant?
Is Bamboo a Tree?
Bamboo is a grass, it is the fastest growing plant on Earth. It grows one third faster than the fastest growing tree. Some species grow as much as four feet a day.
How long does ...
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- Green Tea Benefits: The Best One For Weight Loss
By: mikewilkinsontu74 | - Time and again green tea benefits have proved very efficient than the chemical counterparts. Herbs can heal most of the diseases without causing any drastic side effects. Green tea is one such herb that helps you shed those extra pounds almost effortlessly and also saves you from the numerous side effects that the weight loss pills can have on you.
Green tea benefits are umpteen. It helps in curing ailments such as headache and also depression. While green tea seems to cure, it also ...
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- Green Web Hosting Is Both Good For The Environment And You
By: P. Rodgers | - Over the last two hundred and fifty years, since industrialization began, the delicate balance in the earth's systems and atmosphere has been disturbed by pollution. One form of pollution is the release of the basket of greenhouse gases that are associated with the consumption of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
Green web hosting is just one more earth-friendly thing you can do. Green web hosting is not only an environmentally friendly option, but it is also an affordable on ...
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- How Green Events Are Contributing In The Green Movement
By: Oliver Feakins | - The earth is being polluted every day and the levels of pollution are at an all time high. The air, water, and soil are being attacked with harmful chemicals every day. Much of this pollution is fueled by greed. Many factory owners are not considering the harmful impact that they are doing to the environment but rather how much money they can make.
People everywhere are polluting the earth on a daily basis because of ignorance. That is why awareness through education is so import ...
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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 ...
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- 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 ...
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- Going Green Tips: 5 More Easy Things To Do At Home
By: Ellen Bell | - Eco friendly living, sometimes also referred to as going green, is a growing trend in the United States and around the world. People are becoming more conscious of the negative impact that our daily actions and choices can have on the environment around us. If you want to participate in the movement to go green, but aren't quite sure where to get started, then this article is for you! Read on to learn about five easy things you can start doing at home today to make a real difference in the wo ...
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- Don't Get Greenwashed, Get Green Hosting
By: Phil.Garcia | - Businesses worldwide are beginning to join the Green Movement by adding green options to their list of services. This eco-friendly mentality hit web hosting in the form of green hosting. Green hosting is carbon-neutral web hosting where the host takes conscious steps to minimize or eliminate their carbon footprint. Companies that earnestly pursue greener practices through green hosting are a smart option. However, other companies only offer partially-green features and services that have ...
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- Celebrities Setting The Green Standard
By: Liz Andrews | - Many trends are incubated in Tinsel Town. These fads spread like wildfire, having large masses of people scrambling for the new and coolest, "in thing." Fortunately celebrities are using this trend power to create awareness for the green movement. The following celebrities are using their star power to create awareness for the green movement in the bathroom. One of the most wasteful places in the home.
Star signer Sheryl Crow and A list actor Will Smith are taking their toilet pap ...
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- 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
- Green Remodeling In San Diego
By: Amber Scott | - Many people are looking to go green and the folks of San Diego, California are certainly no exception. There are many ways San Diego people have found to remodel their homes and apartments so that they help maintain the go green movement and also help them to save money in the future in energy costs, fuel costs and living expenses. Some ways people are going green in to replace their existing windows with energy efficient windows, planting trees, installing ceiling fans and even adding a storm ...
Tags: remodel, design, green building, green company
- The Tao Of Green Marketing
By: Irv Weinberg | - To the Chinese, Tao means "The Way." A recent Google search for the phrase, "Saving the planet one (whatever) at a time," revealed more than 17,000,000 responses, with everything from saving the planet one flush at time to one hanger at a time to one bag, one shower, one burger, one carpet, one idea... You get the idea.
Obviously, if you want to get your green message heard, responded to and acted on, saving the planet one "whatever" at a time is not The Way to do it.
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Tags: green marketing, green business, environment, sustainable business, greening branding
- Go Green To Attract More Online Customers
By: Jane Dawson | - The Go Green movement is gaining momentum worldwide as the impacts of global warming and the unpredictability of fuel prices push people to rethink the way we are treating the earth.
Okay, that is a pretty widely reported economic trend which suggests that businesses look for green products to sell as part of their product portfolio.
But, new research is suggesting that customers are also expecting their online vendors to be working just as hard as their bricks and ...
Tags: go green, business strategy, wholesale, wholesaler, dropshippers, dropshipping, importers
- Earth Day April 22nd -trying To Be Greener
By: J.L. Marcoux | - Being green and saving the planet was at the forefront of the media in the first half of 2008. With a rapidly deteriorating economic situation the recession has supplanted the environment as the main issue of concern for most people. Save yourself before trying to save the planet is the new motivation for millions of unemployed workers around the planet.
To make matters worse the green movement has not been very successful in making sustainable development easier to understand ...
Tags: Earth day, environment, green marketing, recycling, sustainable development
- How To Go From Shovel Ready To People Ready In A Green Job Market?
By: Chris Marentis | - With the signing of the economic stimulus bill, there has been a rush to identify shovel ready jobs. But, behind the scenes, business and government leaders are grappling with the problems of being people ready for the millions of green jobs that will be created through the investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Meanwhile, job seekers, anxious and excited about the prospect of a lifeline into a new career, are finding it difficult and confusing to identify ...
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- "green" Construction Materials For Updating Your Home
By: Gary Nealon | - Being a part time news writer or in other words a reporter, I am the journalistic equivalent of a coupon clipper. I do not look for discounts; I look for stories of interest and tuck them away until a future time when they might be relevant.
When I started noticing ads and media reports pertaining to the "green movement" I started gathering information about green start-up companies. From this I stored it away until this green thing took hold or passed like another fad. From that ...
Tags: eco-friendly products, green construction products, home improvement, kitchen cabinets, kitchens
- 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 ...
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- Join The Green Movement By Building Eco Friendly Homes
By: Katrina Fillmore | - Going green is the best route to take today. With the environment getting much attention these days, theres no way to go but go green. Thanks to concerned non-profit international organizations that strongly advocate the preservation of the ecosystem, many people are now made aware of their responsibilities for saving our Mother Earth.
Its great to know that various segments of society are indeed exerting efforts to use and recycle environment friendly materials. ...
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- 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 Green Audit - A Look At Your Business Through Grass-tinted Specs
By: Lilach Bullock | - Once upon a time, businesses would brag about their charity work and involvement with community programmes, but Green issues are now top of the agenda. Whether it was the impact of Al Gores incredible documentary An Inconvenient Truth or the sudden realisation that our planet is running out of fossil fuels, companies are racing to prove that they are ecologically friendly. For many it is because they genuinely care and for some it is because they realise that it can be good for the marketing dri ...
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- Green Van Lines Truly A Difference In The Relocation Business!
By: Levi Meyer | - Green Van Lines was established by Hagai Maman in December of 2007. Sitting down one day with his wife of 10 years they started talking about there little ones future and what the moving industry had done to it. They knew about the green movement but weren't sure how to apply it to the moving industry, this caused Hagai to take into account his carbon footprint on our planet. He started researching possible ways to decrease this and Green Van Lines was born.
Green van line is t ...
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- Save Money And Get Cash Back With Energy Star
By: Nestor Santtia | - You're probably familiar with the term "ENERGY STAR", and are familiar with the Energy Star logo when shopping for new home appliances, but you may not understand what Energy Star really means and how the logo is applied. What it means to you is two things: 1) you will save money because of energy efficiency enhancements, and 2) Energy Star is better for the environment. The green building movement is all about living more sustainably and having less of a negative impact on the environment. ...
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- Green Industry Secrets - Why You Need To Become An Eco Realtor
By: Nestor Santtia | - If you're in the real estate industry, you might be interested in the new green building trend and what it means to you. You've probably also heard the term "Eco Realtor" and wondered if it's worth paying attention to, or if it's just another industry fad. The bottom line is that the green movement is booming and consumers are growing curious on how they can live a more eco-friendly lifestyle. If you become an informed Eco Realtor, you can provide added services that your clients will really ...
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- Save Money With Green Homes
By: Nestor Santtia | - Are you interested in a green home? Did you know you can actually save money due to lower energy costs? There are multiple factors that go into the design, construction, or remodeling of a green property to make it efficient and eco-friendly. First and foremost, the property needs to be energy efficient. Obviously, an energy-efficient home is a greener home, because energy efficiency is one way to lower the harmful impact of greenhouse gas in the environment. But the benefits don't stop ther ...
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- Green Communities And New Urbanism - New Terms For Old Fashioned Neighborhoods
By: Nestor Santtia | - Back in the day, neighbors sat on their front porches, and got to know each other. When they needed something, they would walk a short way to the corner store. Communities were built around a central gathering area, where schools, parks, libraries, and community centers, and other shared neighborhood spaces were popular.
This isn't just a nostalgic memory from a "Leave It to Beaver" TV episode, we really have lost our sense of community, somehow. The loss of the old neighborh ...
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- Green Home Improvement: Smart Renovation With Owner Builder Principles
By: Chris Esposito | - With the recent economic downturn, more and more people are opting to renovate their current home instead of purchasing a new house as a way to fit their family's home needs. With this trend comes a boom in green home features that people can install to make their homes more environmentally friendly. However, you must weigh the costs of the home improvements to the benefits. For this purpose, owner builder principles of home improvement provide a great opportunity to get the best of both worlds. ...
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- You Dont Have To Be A Greenie To Enjoy A Green Gift!
By: Kristi Ambrose | - The color green is affiliated with regeneration, fertility and reincarnation for its connections to mother nature. New political radicals have adopted the color as a symbol of environmental protection and social justice, and think as themselves as being a part of the Green movement, some naming themselves as Green parties. This has led to synonymous movements in advertising, as corporations and business have started selling green, or environmentally friendly, merchandise! Either way, I have deci ...
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- Reducing The Carbon Footprint Of Your Home
By: Crazy Cabinet Guy | - Regardless of where you look, the global community has made "green initiatives" a hot button topic, regardless of what topic you are discussing. Everything industry from construction to cooking, to education, are implementing programs to reduce their environmental impact. The home building or home improvement industry is no exception. Many construction companies, home improvement centers and product manufacturers advertise some level of commitment towards green or environmentally frien ...
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- Green Building Certification
By: R. Michael Richmond | - What is the effect of the Green Cleaning movement on the janitorial industry? The facts are clean that the cleaning and janitorial world is in transition, and it will be forever changed to what will come to be known as the Green Janitorial era. How people transition to this new status will differ, and there will be those who try to ignore it until the Green practice is literally forced on them by mandate.
What will drive this movement is the demand for Green offices and Green bu ...
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- Share Your Passion For The Environment And Grow Rich
By: Jemma Rivera | - In western, highly developed economies such as those of New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. the generation of ever greater amounts of wealth has come along with a greater acknowledgment that individuals, businesses and governments alike must start working towards harmonizing the interests of humanity with those of the environment in which we live. This is a goal for urban dwellers to work towards, not just those living in rural areas.
Biodiversity and organically harmonised materi ...
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- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
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- Steps Families Can Take To Living Green
By: Britt Michaelian | - I do not consider myself to be a huge environmentalist but, I am proud to say that I saved my allowance to join Greenpeace in the 80s. As an adult, I now realize the importance of having an awareness about our impact on the earth and sharing this with our children.
We may not be able to save our planet from every black cloud, but it is important to be responsible and respectful to the earth on a daily basis.
There are simple steps that we can all take to help l ...
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- Four Questions That Separate Spin From Truth When Purchasing Ethical Jewelry
By: Marc Choyt | - A few jewelry companies today differentiate themselves from the competition by branding themselves as producing green or fair trade jewelry. They're taking advantage of a growing market that values socially responsible business practices.
As a consumer, how do you determine the level of sincerity of these companies which are screaming so loudly about how "good" they now have become? The answer is simple: ignore how they are branding themselves. Distrust their advertising. Rather, ...
Tags: socially responsible jewelry, fair trade jewelry, eco jewelry, eco wedding rings, green wedding ring
- The Circle Manifesto: A New Economic Model Based On Ancient Wisdom
By: Marc Choyt | - Most businesses are structured like pyramids. People and resources are used to benefit those at the top who set policy to achieve maximum profit. This narrow focus, mandated in publicly held companies by the law of our land, has turned our basic human need for exchange into a destructive pattern.
"Consumers" slowly undermine their own wellbeing by supporting companies that function within local economies as neo-colonial entities. Money, disconnected from a place, is exported up to ...
Tags: socially responsible, business, green, native wisdom, ethical, alternative, eco
- Reflections On Rage: Making Room In My Circle For "the Man In The Swamp"
By: Marc Choyt | - Paula Underwood, my Iroquois teacher, was fond of saying, "The amount of conflict you can incorporate into your circle is directly proportional to the amount of peace you will feel."
Here's some conflict I've let into my circle recently... I read this press release from Citizen Watch and I was so angry over what I perceived as "green washing" that I could punch my hand through a wall.
I mean, what does Eli Manning have to do with eco friendly consciousness or social ...
Tags: writing, blogging, ethics, socially environmental activism, green wash, editorial
- Green Tea For Weight Loss
By: Thomas Geter | - One former graduate student suspects that a respected biochemistry text might have slowed realization of the connection between green tea and weight loss. Almost thirty years ago, one biochemistry text included detailed information on the energy gradient within a living cell. As explained in that text, the cell's energy gradient uses a chemical called ADP to store potential energy.
When a muscle needs energy, the muscle cells change the ADP into ATP. The ATP supplies the energy ne ...
Tags: green tea, weight loss, polyphenols
- A Challenge To Travelers: Go Green
By: Michael Lee-Smith | - While environmentalists have been promoting a "green vision" for almost 35 years now, it seems like the general public has just realized that each and every one of us has a negative, and lasting, impact on the environment. It's about time.
From a traveler's perspective this realization is important because travel can have significant impact on the environment: air travel consumes tremendous amounts of fuel, hotels are wasteful of water, people move without consideration through un ...
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- Ten Ways To Green Your Career
By: Carol McClelland | - You have done your research. You know the changes you can make in your personal life to have a positive impact on the environment.
The question is: Will those actions be enough to produce the results we need to see?
Imagine the impact each of us could have if we used our work time (over 2000 hours a year) to reduce the damage we've done to the Earth and minimize the damage we will cause as we move forward.
Although you might think you have to have a ...
Tags: green career, environmental career, green job, renewable energy jobs, green products, green innovation, sustainable companies, socially responsible co
- Green Tea's Interesting Affects On Weight Loss
By: Sam Morovy | - Losing weight has been a worldwide concern today that many are in search for the most reliable and safest ways of shredding body fats and thereby achieving optimum health and great physical conditions. But since most of the faster commercial ways of losing weight has had known adverse side effects, many individuals are relying more and more on the more natural and safer methods of losing weight. Drinking green tea is among those tried and tested way, whereby individual dieters can opt to do to a ...
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- Understanding The "green" Movement In Your Marketing Efforts
By: Colette Chandler | - Companies, cities and individuals are getting involved in the green movement. They are doing there part to keep the environment healthier by reducing humans' impact on the land, using recycled metals and nontoxic substances, organic gardening, adding more green space, building using environmentally friendly materials and more.
An increasing number of businesses are beginning to see it as a market advantage, especially when you consider organic foods is one of the fastest growing ...
Tags: green consumer, consumer marketing, consumer awareness, marketing
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