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Recycle & Living Green

Recycling and living green are good ways to save energy

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Top 4 Reasons To Consider A Green Remodel

HERE ARE 4 REASONS FOR REMODELING WITH A GREEN FOCUS. Be responsible for your housing needs while impacting the quality of life for all who come with you.

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How to Choose a New Bike

HOW TO GET THE RIGHT BIKE FOR EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION. A bike maybe the best way to limit your use of fossil fuels. You can peddle right by every gas station in town.

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Should Environmentalists Cheer For Electric Cars?

SHOULD ENVIRONMENTALIST CHEER FOR ELECTRIC CARS? Basically, do we have an Energy Crisis or a Consumption Crisis?

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The Truth About Green Home Improvements

TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT GREEN IMPROVEMENTS. The truth is, they may not always make sense. Here's some important guidelines.

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Striking Chicken Coops Built From Reclaimed Wood Come With Wheels

HOW ABOUT A FEW CHICKENS IN YOUR BACK YARD? Here's a great design of a cute and functional chicken coop.

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The 4 Big Mistakes We Made in Launching Our Green Business

THE FOUR BIG MISTAKES WE MADE in Launching Our Green Business. Yet we have survived five of the toughest economic years our country has ever seen.

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Why Do I Hate Starbucks’

HOW STARBUCKS IS FAR FROM GREEN. Call this little shipping container takeout joint what it is; a cute and clever bit of design, but certainly not green. Why Lloyd hates it so much.

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Environmentalism is a Myth

HOW TO SEE THE MYTH IN ENVIRONMENTALISM. Keep it real and practical, the mystery surrounding environmentalism as a religion is really just a myth. Here's why.

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Why Recycle Paper

HOW RECYCLING PAPER MIGHT NOT BE A GOOD IDEA. Recycling paper comes natural to most people. But is it really the best for the future health of the environment? Maybe it's better to just throw the paper away. Here's the answer.

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Walmart: Green Blog

HOW WALMART MAY BE DOING A LITTLE GREENWASHING. Will it take more than a green blog to make Walmart, our largest retailer, a sustainability giant? How deep does the green really go?

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Straw Bale Architecture

HOW TO PLEASE THE ENVIRONMENT AND MAKE A HOME OUT OF STRAW. Straw Bale Construction is an extended 100 seat cafe, refurbished kitchen and cafe terrace for the Holme Lacy campus. See striking finished project.

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Chickens in Backyard

HOW TO LOVE THE CHICKENS IN BACKYARD. I am a big fan of backyard chicken keeping. Ready supply of fresh chicken manure for my compost, I can't imagine living without them.

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Holiday Guide to Reuse & Recycling

HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF HOLIDAY WASTE, REUSE AND RECYCLING. For many people, the excess of the holidays is one of the season's attractions. You'll be happy to learn about these ways to put the waste to good use.

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Like to Bike Like the Danes!

HOW TO REDUCE CARBON FOOTPRINT WITH THE LIKE-TO-BIKE ATTITUDE. "Like to bike-friendliness" in cities where it is lagging, let smart incentives work their magic and discourage car usage.

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3 Green Remodeling Myths Debunked

HOW GREEN REMODELING HAS A FEW MYTHS TO DEBUNK. Some myths keep people from including green ideas in their remodeling project. With these myths debunked, you'll feel better.

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What is Biodiversity? Why is it Shrinking?

HOW DOES THE EXTINCTION OF SPECIES POINT TO MANS DEMISE. Estimates that up to 30% of all species will be extinct by 2050. What does humanity lose when global biodiversity is significantly

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Green Building Design

HOW A BUILDING CAN SUSTAIN ITSELF, BRITISH COLUMBIA'S LIVING LABORATORY. Green Building Design produces the most sustainable building in North America. How to regenerate the environment.

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Texans Drinking: Sewage in Water?

HOW SEWAGE IN WATER CAN BE CLEANED AND THE WATER RECLAIMED. Texans, are lucky, they have a lot of clear, dry days. Only they have too many, drinking water is getting scarce. Now what?

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Favorite Green Holiday Pies

HOW SHOULD WE MEASURE THE GREEN IMPACT? Considering favorite green holiday pies, we want to know which of the three pies has the lowest environmental impact. Apple, pumpkin, or pecan.

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The Green Festival

HOW GREEN IS BETTER, NOT JUST GREEN. A powerful reminder that companies and organizations in the "green" world are poor communicators. Let's stop calling these things green. They're just better.

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Things Remembered

HOW TO TRIM DOWN THE SHOPPING LIST. Five things remembered but we stopped buying. Most of the stuff we were buying beforehand we didn't need in the first place.

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Ten Easy Ways to Green Your Home

HOW TO GREEN YOUR HOME WITH 10 EASY STEPS. Follow these ten easy steps - most cost less than $25, and some are even free - to make your home a little bit greener.

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The Futility of Going Green

HOW TO GO GREEN AND RECYCLING IS NOT ENOUGH. It's simply not enough to make the planet notice just through recycling. We need to look to policy to drive real change.

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The Best of GreenBuild 2011

HOW SOME NEW PRODUCTS ARE SHOWING PROMISE FOR THE FUTURE. Natural lighting using fiberoptics with a sun tracker on the roof is just one of the great new products.

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The Green Job Interview

HOW TO REACH THAT POTENTIAL GREEN JOB. Being green is easy. Landing a green job, on the other hand, can be more of a challenge. Use these eight expert tips.