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GREEN LIVING

Wake Up And Smell The Roses, While We Still Can!

We seem so engrossed as we run in place, just to make ends meet, that we are not capable of standing back and looking at the bigger picture anymore. Why are we so grossly inefficient at the way that we run our lives? This must be a consequence of many years of relatively good times, [...]

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Is Renewable Energy Really An Option For Me?

Since 1750, according to the smart historians, we have been relying on fossil fuels like coal and oil for our every need. As the years have gone by and as we have become smarter, we have invented new ways to use energy to make our lives easier. While this has been going on, we have [...]

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Do Your Bit For The Environment!

You do not have to move to a cabin in the mountains and live off the land if you are thinking about helping the environment. Have you noticed how environmental issues have become hot news, quite literally, these days? Quite simply, we can’t continue to be conspicuous with our consumption habits and we have to [...]

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How Can I Save Electricity At Home?

There’s no point in trying to brush the problem of excess energy use under the carpet any longer. Change begins at home and it begins with every one of us. If we own or rent a home and use all the creature comforts that we are used to, then we are responsible for using a [...]

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Saving Money Comes Back Into Fashion

It’s not as if saving money has ever been “out” of fashion, as such, but it is certainly en vogue these days. We used to be concerned about receiving those energy bills and would mutter under our breath as we tore open the envelope. Often we would make a mental note that we were going [...]

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Energy Savings- Facts and Rumours

Our Trash
What should we do with our trash? Should we burn it or should we store it in a landfill? Two reasons why storing our trash in a landfill is a better solution, but the third solution is best:
1. Landfill waste creates methane, which could (eventually) be harnessed as an energy source.
2. Burning waste releases [...]

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Energy Saving ? Looking at Ways to Save Energy in the Home

Wherever we go we’re made to feel guilty for using our cars, and some of us have started using alternative forms of transport in order to help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that’s being pumped into our air. But did you know that more carbon dioxide, also known as a greenhouse gas, comes straight [...]

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Global Warming – Thoughts for the Week

Why is the second largest producer of CO2 emissions, China, exempt from any of the regulations in the Kyoto Protocol? China’s emissions have increased 40% from 1990 to 2003, but because the country was classified as a third world nation and the Kyoto Protocol was never amended to address any rapid industrial development, China gets [...]

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Global Warming – Future Floods

The average temperature of the earth has increased by about 0.6 degrees centigrade over the past 100 years. Because of the affect of global warming, scientists predict that the temperature will continue to rise by about 0.3 degrees centigrade per decade – that’s 3 degrees over a 100 year period.
Some areas are expected to warm [...]

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Global Warming, Hurricanes and Ice

More Hurricanes caused by Global Warming?
Because of the recent events and devastation caused Hurricane Katrina, many notable Scholars, Politicians and Scientists are blaming global warming for the increased activity and strength of hurricanes.
In fact, 2005 has set a record for number of developed hurricanes in the US and the season doesn’t end for another 9 [...]

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