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People Power: Are You Taking the Stairs?
Seems like a simple energy equation, right? Using fossil fuels to move a heavy elevator up and down a building has got to take more energy (and create more…
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Improving Air and Water by Digging up a Little Lawn
Lawns have their place, but in general they have now taken too much place. Aside from the matters of fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, irrigation, and fossil-fuel consuming mowers, there is…
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Shipping: On the Ground
Every well run office has an organized shipping center. Your home can have one too but let’s give it a “green” make over. In the age of Fed-Ex and…
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Composting Part 2: Even the Big Boys are Doing It
Keeping food out of the landfill, and recycling food waste, is not just for back yard scrappers. Restaurants and big institutions are getting into it too. Finley’s cousin Girard…
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Under Pressure
Rolling along you may not notice a change in tire pressure but your car does. Proper tire pressure can improve gas mileage by 3%, not to mention the crucial…
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Composting: Nature’s Way to Recycle
Food scraps are too good to waste – why send them to the dump? Finley could give some of hers to her chickens to recycle into eggs, but even…
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Getting Clean
The verdict is in: Dishwashers better than hand washing. Hand washing one load of dishes can use 20 gallons of water, whereas water- and energy-efficient dishwashers use as little as…
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Eating on the Go: Ditch the Plastic
Eating on the go is an inevitable fact of life for most of us, but there is no reason to make it worse with single-use plastic spoons and forks…
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In Hot Water
Ready to save some energy and $? Water heating accounts for roughly 19 percent of home energy bills so let’s make sure our water heaters are as efficient as…
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Don’t Flush That! World Water Day 2016
Most, if not all, of us take it for granted that we have clean water, plenty of it, and sanitation to boot. Of course, the sanitation (aka sewage treatment…
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