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Amy ..
... I’ve tried a few. Last week I was lucky enough to experience the impressive skills of San Francisco’s newest environmentally friendly home cleaning service, Home Green Home. Home Green Home is a worker-owned cooperative in partnership with WAGES and Seventh Generation. The worker/owners of Home Green Home have completed intensive trai ...
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Go Green at Home
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Jolly Green Dad ..
Did you hear what happened in San Francisco recently? The city enacted a bill which would give HUGE and MASSIVE rebates to people installing renewable energy, specifically solar energy in their homes or businesses. The major of good ole San Fran signed this into legislation today! If a home installs a photovoltaic (solar) system, they are eligi ...
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Go Green at Home
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Jolly Green Dad ..
Did you hear what happened in San Francisco recently? The city enacted a bill which would give HUGE and MASSIVE rebates to people installing renewable energy, specifically solar energy in their homes or businesses. The major of good ole San Fran signed this into legislation today!If a home installs a photovoltaic (solar) system, they are eligibl ...
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What Makes a Green Home Green?
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Brett - Sheer Balance
Planning to build a green home can be confusing. What makes a green home green? What factors are most important and why?Factors such as, building envelope, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, ...
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Green home air purifier
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Another Green Idea ..
The Alen Corporation is set to debut the first green certified home air filter that will be available nationwide on August 1st. The filter is named the PARALDA and is the first filter of it's kind that will be lead-free and ozone safe. The filter has received certification from both the EPA and the Department of Energy and is Energy Star qualifie ...
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Opportunities to Go Green at Home
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Lyn S.
The Washington Post has an article on front-loading washers, those high-efficiency, water-saving, easier on clothing, and dryer time-saving appliances - how to evaluate them, what's important, what might make one inappropriate in your situation. The LA Times has a great first-person account of one woman's decision to install an indoor composting to ...
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Top 10 green home upgrades
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Adam V.
Should you get solar? Is it really worth switching to energy-saving bulbs? They're just two of the questions I tried to answer last week in an article for the Indy's nice little green living supplement on Wednesday. It's not in their online archives, so I've reprinted the best eco upgrades for your home after the click-through. [photo: TaranRampers ...
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Sneak Peek at HGTV Green Home 2009
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Jennae P.
I hope you don’t think less of me when I say that I am drooling right now. What has me in such a tizzy,you ask? Just the sneak peek of HGTV’s Green Home 2009.I couldn’t embed the video, but you can see it for yourself here. From top to bottom, it is a marvel of eco-friendly goodness, from the recycled wood flo ...
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The Most Effective Way to Green a Home?
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Pablo P.
"Passion" and "building retrofit" are not three words you might typically see together. And yet they fit Matt Golden, founder of Sustainable Spaces. While I could see that his company had a different, more human approach to presenting what they offer, I had no idea how fired up someone could get about green (re)building.While th ...
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10 Easy Ways to Get Your Green on at Home
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Brett - Sheer Balance
Looking for some quick ways to be more green at home? Give some of these a try…Program your thermals stat! Take a big bite out of your energy bill and pollutants by installing a programmable thermostat. You can set it to use less A/C or heat while you’re sleeping or at work. Once it’s installed, it will save about 1,800 lbs of a ...
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