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1. 101 Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint I am ashamed to admit that I only really became concerned about my carbon footprint and living a more eco friendly life after I moved to Ireland. Prior to that creating a green home was pretty low on my priorities and I was living an eco unfriendly l...
2. Eco-Friendly Tiny Houses Tiny houses are compact structures hand built from green building materials. They're so small they're easily moveable and can be quite practical for a single person interested in living a green lifestyle. Tiny houses are designed and built with a sma...
3. Twelve Days of a Green Christmas How do you have a green Christmas? Here's twelve ways to have an ethical, eco-friendly and environmentally friendly Christmas. The Twelve Days of Christmas to my family is simply a time of being together. When I was a child there was no such thi...
4. Carbon Calculators We've been gathering a comprehensive list of carbon calculators, eco calculators, ecological footprint calculators and the like. Here's a partial list of what we've found so far. It's very much a work in progress, so please check back as we: - add m...
5. Solar Energy Solar power isn't perfect, but it's about as perfect as we can get if we need heat or electricity and don't want to generate emissions by burning carbon-based fuels (coal, oil, gas) or hazardous waste from nuclear power plants. Here we'll see what is...
6. Solar Power Eco Friendly Green Energy Are you interested in energy efficiency? You might be considering solar power and harnessing the sun to provide your electricity and hot water. Solar power using solar panels is a great eco friendly alternative energy source that lets you take advan...
7. Green Computing - Cutting Your PC's Carbon Footprint The standard 200W PC running for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks in a year, will use 400 kwh. Maybe not much considering the total energy usage of your household or business, but it's a great place to start cutting your carbon emissions and sa...
8. Top Electric Car Conversion Kit Review - Save Thousands A Year and Help The Environment - REVIEW - I have reviewed the top Electric Car Conversion Manuals available online. There are a lot of options out there, but after reviewing the top manuals on the web, I recommend one above all the others, for several reasons, the least of which...
9. Save the World with Peanut Butter and Jelly! Ok, maybe you can't really save the entire world with PB&J, but opting for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich instead of a burger at least once a week does have positive consequences for our planet. Find out why.
10. My Quest For A Greener Life The first thing I'd like to make clear is that I'm not, by any means, a poster child for the eco-movement. I love to travel but I don't like airplanes and I've had a couple of really, really disasterous train trips so travel by car is my first choic...
11. Refillable wine bottles If you are a regular, and thoughtful, wine drinker you realise that your habit will be causing the production, transport and disposal or reuse of tons of glass every year. Well maybe not tons, but lots. This lens helps you look at how you might reduce...
12. Plant A Seed of Change in Food Distribution In my efforts to make a change in food distribution, I have decided to help local farmers to supply their produce within their neighborhoods, one at a time. To decrease the distance between producer and consumer by trucking for example, is to dec...
13. The Environment: Re-Greening the Earth We don't know what we've got till it's gone, Humanity has been ruining the environment with devistating consequences. However, we do not have to continue down this road. There are things thata can be done individually and collectively that can halt o...
14. GLOBAL WARMING - a misinterpreted topic - find out WHY ! This is the Clinton Valley in Fiordland, New Zealand. This valley was carved out by glaciers formed during the ice age. As temperatures warmed, the glaciers began to melt and move toward the sea forming great lakes along the way. Glacier melting occu...
15. Carbon Offsets After you have conserved all you can, one can carry on by purchasing carbon offsets to neutralize the carbon you are still producing as you go about your day.
16. Shout out your top green tips here Polar ice caps melting. North Pole nearly liquid by summer. Whole islands going underwater, taking homes and villages with them. Almost no one disputes that global warming is a fact of our lives. Lots of folks wonder what they can do to make a differ...
17. Living Green - Tips for Reducing your Carbon Footprint With all the information out there in the news and on the internet most people are at least aware of pollution problems. The issue is more serious in some areas but the fact remains that we all contribute to it. The concern is that with more people o...
18. Energy Efficient, Conservation, and Environmental Alternatives Only recently (about the past 10,000 years or so) have humans used solar energy in the form of "carbon-foot-print" in the form of that all-power power called "fire". This is a good start to the story--but it's most likely really, really wrong. Becaus...
19. Make a New Year's Resolution to Green Your Life in 12 Months You could decide to lose weight--again--or this year you could resolve to lighten the load you leave on the planet. Here is a series of small changes that add up to big results divided up by time frame. You can complete them today, this week, or duri...
20. Carbon -- Our Planet's Basis for Life Carbon is the 4th most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen; by comparison, the most abundant elements in the Earth's crust are oxygen, silicon, and some light metals. However, the elements that make up most "or...