Living out here in the country means that we have use of a septic tank. No city water out this far! Septic tanks can have issues when soil conditions do not provide enough percolation, not enough water to keep it working through winters, & many other serious problems. We have yet to experience any issues [...]
Living a more sustainable life is no longer a lifestyle chosen solely by hippies & health or fitness gurus anymore. The effects that us as humans have had on the planet we reside on has lead to global warming side effects & if we continued to abuse Earth in this way, well there sure wouldn’t [...]
I’ve blogged before about BP doing good things for our environment with looking for green energy sources. Well, now they have partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy to sponsor the BP Solar Decathlon, which is where teams of people compete to form a solar village in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. this October [...]
Many of my friends know how much I like those internet news websites. I especially love those dealing with themed issues like our environment- or “Green” themed. The more interactive, the better, in my humble opinion. Grow Green News is just that- an interactive, user-submitted Green news website. They offer great community features like [...]
Save money this holiday season with energy efficient LED Christmas lights. HolidayLEDs sells lighting for professional or home use. The home lights are Approved by the Home Safety Council & require zero maintenance. The pro lights are very durable, you can connect as many as up to 125 strings of lights, are UL approved [...]
9 August 2007: British Gas has announced it is launching two new green energy tariffs, Zero Carbon, which will be the greenest tariff available on the domestic market and Future Energy. British Gas has launched the tariffs, in response to the increasing demand for green energy products.
Householders signing up to the Zero Carbon tariff will:
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Many environmentalists are up in arms about the increase of ammonia & sludge that the BP Whiting Refinery has begun to dump into Lake Michigan. Now as an environmentalist myself, it is almost heartrending to hear about this increase of wastes. However, the increase of this waste still remains UNDER federal pollution guideline limit.
That [...]
When we start building our home, we’re going to look into a mortgage so that we can fund the building! We don’t plan on spending an arm & a leg, but plan to build from recycled structures as well as purchase new, energy efficient appliances. Newfangled “green” appliances are not cheap & I forsee that [...]
