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How To Find Cash Hidden In Your House
You don’t have to look under the floorboards to find the cash that’s hidden in your home. Many of your ongoing monthly costs come in the form of energy — you know, those bills that keep showing up every month. We can show you how to take control and reduce your carbon emissions in each [...]
Top Green Alternative Energy Tips
Start by switching to green power The easiest way to switch to green energy is to call your current provider and see if they offer an alternative. An increasing number of companies do, harnessing renewable sources like wind and solar power to offer electric service in their markets. This costs more for the consumer, since [...]
5 Tips On How To Drive Smart And Save Green
Drive smart, save green. It’s a great phrase, and if more people took up the challenge, the whole country – no, the whole world – would benefit immensely. How can you make a difference to the environment with your driving? This article provides you with 7 great tips that you can put into action right [...]
Examples Of How Going Green Saves You Money
There are many examples of how going green saves you money. Kermit the Frog was wrong – it Is easy being green, and it saves you money at the same time. As the planet faces a period of warming where our actions are believed to be the prime cause, it makes sense to seek out [...]
Corporations Find Business Case For Going Green
Why go green? If oil prices surge even higher, or supplies dwindle, people will still want to heat their homes, drive their cars and turn on their lights. For a company like BP to make it in that type of market, it might help to be able to offer alternative products, such as solar or [...]
Additional Tips To Help You Live Green
There are plenty of small areas where you can make some significant changes as well. The concepts here are very easy and anyone can implement then to start living greener right now. You will be proud to offer such benefits to the environment without having to give up anything you really need.It is important to [...]
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Responsible Lawn Watering
Americans turn on the sprinkler too much, with 50% of water going to waste due to evaporation, wind, and over-watering. Once a strong, healthy lawn is established, it should need minimal to no watering. Changing color – and even slight browning – are part of grasses’ natural cycles, and a good rain will bring it [...]
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Buy Green School Supplies
This fall, send your child off to school with a guaranteed A+ in healthy, sustainable living. Buying recycled and natural school supplies is more affordable and simpler than ever with an increasing number of stores, including big ones such as Wal-Mart and Target, stocking green products. Healthier Gear All kinds of common school items have [...]
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McDonald’s Makes Its Logo More ‘Green’ In Europe
BERLIN – McDonald’s is going green — swapping its traditional red backdrop for a deep hunter green — to promote a more eco-friendly image in Europe. About 100 German McDonald’s restaurants will make the change by the end of 2009, the company said in a statement Monday. Some franchises in Great Britain and France have [...]
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Oil Company To Use Tallest, Greenest Building In Europe As Its HQ
It looks like a modern version of a van Gogh painting rather than the future headquarters of an oil company, but with its concert hall, museum, hotel and business center, Gazprom Tower will be the tallest, greenest building in Europe. Yes, there’s plenty of irony in having Gazprom’s oil unit, OAO Gazprom Neft, use one [...]
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First Solar on the Future of Photovoltaics: Part 1
First Solar is the largest solar module firm by market capitalization, the largest thin-film solar firm, and one of the largest solar firms by capacity, shipments, and certainly by cumulative profits. The company is in the cross hairs of every other solar firm and continues to set the bar in terms of solar panel value [...]
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Who Reigns Supreme in Residential Solar?
In 2010, the market value of all residential solar installed in the U.S. was just shy of $ 1.8 billion. Once tallied, the 2011 dollar amount will be substantially larger. According to data collected by GTM Research, there are well over 2,000 experienced residential installers fighting for a piece of this $ 2-billion-plus pie. This [...]
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50 New Ways To Never Waste Food Again
“Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without” is a favorite adage in both frugal and green circles, and it is something I strive to live by. One of the best ways to “use it up” is to think differently about our food and ways to avoid wasting it. The statistics for [...]
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How To Find Cash Hidden In Your House
You don’t have to look under the floorboards to find the cash that’s hidden in your home. Many of your ongoing monthly costs come in the form of energy — you know, those bills that keep showing up every month. We can show you how to take control and reduce your carbon emissions in each [...]
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Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holding Forms Renewables Unit
MidAmerican Energy Holding Company, the Midwestern utility subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, announced today it will form a branch dedicated exclusively to the development of renewable energy. The renewables platform will, unlike four of MidAmerican’s five other highly regulated platforms (two utilities and two gas pipelines), offer MidAmerican the opportunity it has only had [...]
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Guest Post: Price Is Not the Only Issue in a Solar Trade Discussion
Background: On December 20, 2011, Jigar Shah, President, Coalition of Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) and founder of SunEdison, publicly asked Gordon Brinser, President of SolarWorld Industries Americas and the Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) to withdraw its petition to the U.S. ITC/DOC against Chinese solar imports for dumping solar panels in the U.S. below [...]
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Autodesk: A Hollywood Happy Ending for Renewables and Greentech Innovation?
The last 16 Academy Award winners in the Visual Effects category use Autodesk design tools, acccording to the company. Autodesk describes its multiple visualizing tools as “digital prototyping software.” The software allows users to create three-dimensional virtual realities in which to challenge and perfect their designs. “It lets people design, visualize and simulate their ideas,” [...]
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Ten Years of Texas Electric Utility Deregulation
Texas has the oldest and most successful deregulated electricity marketplace in the U.S. A decade ago, deregulation was rolled out by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) in the wake of California’s $ 45 billion partial deregulation fiasco. By 2008, 80 percent of Texas registered voters favored a competitive electricity market, and, by 2010, [...]
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What Are Romney and Gingrich’s Plans for Energy in the US?
Although the GOP presidential primary race remains fluid, the front-runners are now Newt Gingrich, fresh from a victory in South Carolina, and Mitt Romney, the second-place finisher in Iowa and South Carolina and first-place finisher in New Hampshire. Barring a brokered convention, one of these gentlemen will likely be the GOP candidate with a chance [...]
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Layoffs at CIGS Solar Hopeful MiaSolé
MiaSolé, the Kleiner Perkins- and Vantage Point-backed CIGS solar company, has laid off 30 percent of its workforce, according to sources close to the company. A company spokesperson has verified that there have been layoffs, but did not specify the extent of the reduction-in-force. We understand that many of the layoffs have occurred in engineering [...]
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Impressions of the Wind Tower Trade War
On the heels of accusations that the Chinese government is subsidizing its solar panel manufacturers so they can sell at below-market prices in the U.S., the U.S.-based Wind Tower Trade Coalition (WTTC) petitioned the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) to investigate Chinese and Vietnamese tower makers for similar practices. [...]
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Finding Work for Used Electric Vehicle Batteries
Plug-in vehicle people have never been good at waiting. When the major car makers told them the idea wouldn’t fly in the marketplace, they went out and converted leaders at General Motors and Nissan. With the Volt and the LEAF selling all the cars with plugs they can get to showroom floors, it looks like [...]
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