Tag: Green Basics

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  Maker Faire 2012: EcoJaunt's How-To Videos For Green Living

  A home base for eco-living education, a start-up called EcoJaunt has traveled all over to collect the best tips and tricks from DIY experts.

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  Perfect Scrambled Eggs in 40 Seconds

  Flawlessly cooked eggs without additional fat or a non-stick pan can be yours in under a minute.

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  NBC and Brian Williams' Call to Action on Climate Change is Useless

  In a PSA, Brian Williams encourages us to turn off the lights when we're not in the room. Is that the best he's got?

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  Bloomberg News Launches Sustainability Section

  The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.

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  Green Tax Shift & Other Environmental Issues Cartoon-Style by Stuart McMillen

  Here is someone who gets the message across, in a funny and beautiful way. Australian Stuart McMillen takes topics around environmental sustainability and turns them into catchy cartoons.

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  Energy Savvy Gives Homeowners Tools for Zapping Energy Waste

  Images via EnergySavvy EnergySavvy is the newest tool to hit the web for homeowners looking to minimize wasted energy. By creating a profile of your home and getting a score based on your current energy efficiency, you can find out the various ways to

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  Slow Down London's 8 Week Course to Slow Down Your Life

  Slow Down London is a new project created "to inspire Londoners to improve their lives by slowing down to do things well, rather than as fast as possible." It's a chance to create opportunities--spiritual, physical and

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  From the Forums: Low-Cost Green Tips

  outside the box needs some ideas: Looking at the posts I see a pattern that some people don't think they can afford to go green. While others are extremely resourceful and have come up with a myriad of ideas

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  Illuminating Candle Pollution

  You can add paraffin candles to the list of seemingly mundane objects that can negatively affect your indoor air quality. According to a new study put out by American Chemical Society, burning candles is a common and long

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  Jillian Michaels Wants You to Master Your Metabolism, the Green Way

  Calling Jillian Michaels a fitness guru is kinda like saying Oprah Winfrey is sorta influential or Kim Jong-il has a little problem expressing himself. She is a fitness god…or goddess, whichever! She is the go-to for millions of people that want a

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  LEED goes 3.0 — and they ain't joking 'round

  The USGBC, and their insanely popular rating system LEED, have been on the frontlines of the green building movement for quite a while. Everyone has taken a shot at them at least once. There’s all the talk about how the credits are

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  Offshore Drilling: Is Energy Worth the Ecological Disaster of Oil Spills?

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  Paper Bags or Plastic Bags? Everything You Need to Know

  Paper or plastic bags: which is better? It's an age old question, when it comes time to check out when grocery shopping: paper bag or plastic bag? It seems like it should be an easy choice, but there's an incredible number of details and inputs hidden

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  How Does Solar Energy Work?

  For as long as our planet has spun 'round the sun, there's been solar energy cascading down on the earth, and, for a long time -- since the 7th century B.C., when glass was used to magnify it -- humans have been working to

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  An Explanation of the Water Cycle (with Pictures and Diagrams)

  Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink (or so we all learned as kids, right?), but it's definitely not as easy as that these days. In honor of World Water Day (which may or may not have been today), let's

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  VOCs: Volatile Organic Compounds, Indoor Air Quality and Respiratory Health

  Getty Images Volatile organic compounds: something's in the air You can't see them, but they're all around us. They aren't listed as ingredients on the objects we bring in our home, but they're often there. They're volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, a

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  Eating Local Food: The Movement, Locavores and More

  The local food movement, eating local, being on the "100 mile diet" or being a locavore are all synonymous with local food, whose consumption has risen to prominence as an

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  Your Carbon Footprint: Calculating, Reducing and Offsetting Your Impact

  In addition to metrics like ecological footprint, each of us (and each of the products and services we use and consume every day) has a carbon footprint; it's a way to measure the relative impact of our actions -- as individuals, as businesses,