Having a home based business comes with a lot of benefits. Benefits like having a short commute to work. My commute is just steps away to my basement office which means I don’t have to drive to work every day. Being able to walk to work means reducing the amount of vehicle emissions that are [...]
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Today, more and more people are trying to be more green and more environmentally conscious. What better way to to help the environment than to get your kids interested in their own planet when they are young and impressionable?
Every year parents spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on toys for their kids that often [...]
Landfills are a necessary part of our lives. Can you imagine what things would look like if we didn’t have a place to dump and dispose of all the garbage that we humans produce? The act of burying garbage is the oldest method of controlled waste disposal and is still the most popular method used [...]
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What is Carbon Footprint?
What does the term “carbon footprint” mean as it pertains to the environment? According to Wikipedia, carbon footprint is “the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product”. Breaking that down a little more, we could say that a carbon footprint is [...]
If you live in New Jersey and you have been holding off getting a new refrigerator or freezer, now is the time to go out and get a new one. Check this out from nj.com It’s a pretty sweet deal for anyone that was looking to upgrade to a more energy efficient refrigerator.
Giving up old [...]
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Is the amount of energy you home uses, sucking the money right out of your wallet? You home may be your castle but how much money do you spend on energy keeping your drafty, inefficient castle comfortable? Not only does not caring about the environment hurt the planet, it also takes a bite out of [...]
I have to tell you that I really HATE bugs. I am actually afraid of spiders. When my husband is out of town and a spider shows up at the house I have to do some serious breathing techniques in order to deal with getting rid of the pest. But I also don’t like using [...]
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Author: Paige Green
Setting up a good green home starts with energy efficiency. Traditional incandescent light globes lose almost 90 per cent of their energy in generating heat – only 10 per cent of the electricity used is actually going into lighting your room. And because of their various filaments and parts, incandescent bulbs generally have [...]
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I have to confess that I like the convenience of using plastic bags. You know the ones that all the stores use because they are cheap, light weight, and did I mention that they are cheap.
I love them because I can carry more than one or two bags a the same time. I try to [...]
I think that it’s safe to say that summer is here. It certainly is where I live here in North Carolina. I’m always looking for low cost ways to keep the house cool during the summer time and I came across this article that gives some really good advise for staying cooler. I particularly like [...]
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