Archive for February, 2012

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Save Water When Gardening This Year

Conservation, Environment, Green

You will need to water the garden every day in hot weather.  Using a large watering can is an economical way to do this if you have an outside tap.  A much quicker way would be to use a hose pipe.  However, when people use hose pipes they tend to use much more water than [...]

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How Could Cosmetic Surgery be Made More Energy Efficient?

Conservation

I don’t like going to the hospital. Every time I go, it feels like I am on a giant soundstage burning with electricity. So many bright lights, so many machines sucking power out of the walls. I think of how the world could survive without all this wasted power. Do people even realize that these [...]

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Solar Power Beats Out Kerosene

Green

In Uttar Pradesh, a large and poor Indian state, a new service is being offered to locals that enables a cheaper and healthier source of energy for light and low power uses.  This is very necessary as the Indian power grid is already massively overloaded and does not even reach to the far flung villages [...]

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Sustainability Begins with Solid Personal Finances

Society

Establishing an environmentally friendly, sustainable lifestyle will undoubtedly be the focus of younger generations for decades to come.  It is a noble and increasingly necessary aspect of life in today’s society.  Sustainability, however, doesn’t come easily.  Sustainability must come after one establishes him or herself a viable, healthy personal lifestyle that includes a secure financial [...]

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Local Governments are Going Green!

Environment, Green

Everything in churches and governments move extremely slow and for this reason I am not surprised neither have jumped on the Go Green bandwagon quickly.  Most are still as wasteful as ever and have no plans on changing.  Then again, every once in a while there seems to be a glimmer of hope and there [...]

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Tips for Going Green

Environment, Green

Want to go greener this year, but not sure where you and your family should start? It doesn’t have to be a whiplash set of changes. You and your children can always start with some small habits or products to change. Here’s a few tips on how to go green. You may already do a [...]

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