Green Living Tips for Rednecks
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It is easy to keep your homes spic and span these days thanks to loads of chemical-based products that can easily clean up any mess in your household. These substances are not expensive but the cost of using them can be high health-wise not only for you but for the entire family. It can also [...]
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If you’re building a new home, or remodeling an existing one, you needn’t spend a great deal of extra money to take advantage of the power of the sun. Incorporating the principles of passive solar design will make your home easier to heat and cool, and keep you more in touch with the natural cycles of the day and year.
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Where were you for Earth Hour? I confess that I don’t remember. I was comfortably living my life while the skylines went dark all over 88 countries and over 4,000 cities worldwide on March 28, 2009. Thomas Edison’s laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, where the incandescent light bulb was invented, went dark. Most of us in the U.S. pretty much went on about our lives.
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80W Solar Electric Backup Generator KitXPower Powerpack 1500 is an excellent alternative to a generator no noise, no fumes, no fuel, and no moving parts. With the accessories provided, recharge XPower Powerpack 1500 using utility power from your wall outlet, from your vehicle, or from a solar panel. This unit is great for emergency [...]
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Green homes are gentle on the environment and save energy for the home owner. This video gives a great introduction to green homes and green building practices.
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Everyone with a mother probably knows that club soda lifts out stains. But that’s where many people’s knowledge of green house cleaning methods ends. Truth is, there’s a bevy of all-natural, non-toxic ways to clean most everything in your home (and yard and garden, for that matter). Here we’ll examine just one other of those [...]
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When most people think “solar,” they think in terms of solar power – electricity! Solar electric systems, or photovoltaics (PV for short) allow you to power your home with the sun as fuel.
But if you’re shopping for your first solar system, it pays to do your homework. PV isn’t the only type of solar energy [...]
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Green building is when you build with environmentally sustainable building materials and practices. Green building materials include rapidly renewable plant materials such as bamboo and straw, lumber from forests certified to be sustainably managed, recycled metal, ecology blocks, dimension stone, recycled stone, and other products that are reusable, non-toxic, renewable, and/or recyclable.
Other materials often considered [...]
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