Tag: Energy Star - Page 3
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NEC Launches New EPEAT Monitor
Using an energy efficient monitor is a great way to cut down on energy use. There are a growing number of options out there, including new LED monitors, and monitors that are energy sippers.
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PC Buyers Might Get Efficiency Tags to Help with Computer Purchases
The upcoming specifications document for Energy Star 5.0 lists language that just might spell out an easier time for purchasers of PCs. A note on page 10 of the doc makes it sound like consumers could soon get those handy little tags that spell out a
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The Better Pizza Box, The Stir Around Energy Star and Australia's Fishing Ban
Has the Energy Star label lost its luster?
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Answers to All Your Electricity Questions Help Save Energy
Do you suffer from "electricity overload"? We don't mean the number of plugs crowding your outlets. We mean the short circuit in your brain when you try to figure out: Do you save energy by
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Best Cooling Fans for a Good Night's Sleep
Good things come in threes. TreeHugger recently reviewed the Bedfan and SunFrost Sleep Genie. The Bedfan cools you under the sheets while you sleep. The Sleep Genie is sized to cool just your sleeping area by insulating around the bed ("Victorian bed
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Poor Energy Habits Slug Households $300 Million a Year
Am way behind with my posts, but let’s try to get back up to speed with this one. Earlier this month EnergyAustralia released the results of a survey they’d undertaken in the Australian state of New South Wales. Seems that collectively households in
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The TH Interview: Will Wynn—Austin's Green Mayor (Part Two)
In the second half of our face-to-face with Austin's mayor, Will Wynn talks about his part in the race to be America's greenest city, the decoupling of profits and pollution, and his vision for America getting it right (after we've exhausted every
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Save Energy the Shagadelic Way: How to Insulate Your Refrigerator
How often do you get to start a serious post with a quote like that? Thanks to our friends over at Chelsea Green, for sharing their favorite project from Stephen and
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The TH Interview: Will Wynn—Austin's Green Mayor (Part One)
Austin Texas is a direct challenge to typical stereotypes about the American South. As the capital of the most polluting state, Austin has decided to flip the script and become one of the most progressive cities in the nation. Mayor Will Wynn has been
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How to Go Green: Home Buying
The housing market may have had a rough time of late, but there are still plenty of us out there looking to buy a new home. Whether you are a first time buyer or a seasoned home-buying veteran, it is worth remembering that buying a house is one of the
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Verdant Vocations: A Real Estate Agent?
Here’s the fourth in our series of posts about that third of our day spent beavering away at our chosen craft.
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TH Forums Highlights: Green Car Marketing, Killing Vampire Power + More
1) Forums user Its_not_easy_being_green says, "As an interest in alternative energy grows, so to does the market for hybrid and electric cars. Today, nearly every major auto manufacturer is gladly responding to this niche. Unfortunately, it appears that
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Hummer of Fridges Goes Green
When I first heard that Sub-Zero and Wolf were going Energy Star I thought that this was akin to a hydrogen Hummer, a monster fridge or six burner range that somehow was insulated enough to get a decent Energy Star rating but still too big and too
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Dell Rings In Energy Star 4.0
Dell's new Inspiron 531 is the PC manufacturer's first consumer desktop to achieve Energy Star 4.0 requirements. (With the latest iteration of Energy Star requirements, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that only the top 25 percent of
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JCPenney First Retail Building to Win Energy Star Certification
Take that, Kohls!: Four JCPenney stores are the first retail buildings in the nation to earn the Energy Star label for "superior energy efficiency and environmental performance." Compared with similar stores around the country,
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The TH Interview: Wendy Reed, Energy Star's Change a Light, Change the World Campaign Manager
Starting today, Energy Star's Change a Light, Change the World campaign is hitting the road, touring the country (see the full schedule here) by bus to spread the good word about the difference we all can make in the fight against global warming by
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Energy Star's Change a Light, Change the World Campaign Hits the Road This Week
TreeHugger has known for a while now how much difference changing your incandescent light bulbs in favor of CFLs can make (answer: a lot!). To help spread this message beyond those who read TreeHugger, the folks at Energy Star are reaching out to a
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Green Building Studio Software Calculates Energy Impacts of Design
Santa Rosa, California-based company Green Building Studio, Inc. launched the beta version of its green-building software, Green Building Studio V3.0. Compatible with other design tools from Autodesk and Graphisoft, the beta version now offers
