Eco Friendly Home Product Ideas & Information
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If you’re trying to go green for your upcoming wedding, eco friendly wedding invitations are a good place to start. Over 2 million people get married each year in the US, which is an average of about 5,500 marriages a day. With an average number of guests around 178, that works out to a HUGE [...]
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You have likely received advertising for duct cleaning services claiming to improve the air quality of your home as well as the efficiency of your heating and cooling systems. If you are considering these services, read on as the information in this article might surprise you. In the 1990’s, both the US Environmental Protection Agency [...]
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My son asked me the other day, “How do solar panels work?” I’ve come to realize lately that if I can’t break something down into simple enough concepts for my four year old to understand, I don’t understand it well enough myself. I knew the basics enough to say that energy from the sun is [...]
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LEED for Homes is a rating initiative created by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) to help transform residential buildings into sustainable homes. The USGBC is a non-profit organization with the goal of transforming the built environment within a generation. USGBC developed the LEED program, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, to [...]
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The terms sustainability and sustainable development are used every day, in the media, by governments, corporations…you name it. Yet, despite seeing and using these terms regularly, how many of us can actually define sustainable development? Unfortunately, short of doing a survey, I can’t answer this. However, I do have the utmost faith that if asked, [...]
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