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Press Release: Energy Department Awards More Th...
Dec 22 2011 05:35 PM | E3 wise in Green Energy
Energy Department Awards More Than $7 Million for Innovative Hydrogen Storage Technologies in Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles The U.S. Department of Energy announced more than $7 million to fund four projects in California, Washington, and Orego...
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Google Retired Powermeter Service On September...
Nov 28 2011 12:10 AM | Hayden in Green Energy
Google launched PowerMeter as a free energy monitoring tool to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information. PowerMeter included key features like visualizations of your energy usage, the ability share inform...
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Energy Saving Light Bulbs | Which Save The Most...
Nov 22 2011 01:10 PM | Nadia R. in Green Energy
Do you know that lighting up your home is about 11% of all the electricity you use? Do you know that switching to energy saving light bulbs can decrease your energy costs with at least $50 per year, if you give up 15 traditional light bulbs? The...
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Small Cities For A Sustainable Future
Nov 14 2011 12:00 AM | mariaandrea in Green Energy
In 1975 Ernest Callenbach published a novel called "Ecotopia" in which he explored the idea of an ecologically sustainable society. In order to create this society, the states of California, Oregon and Washington secede from the USA and proceed...
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5 No-Sew Projects For Old Jeans
Nov 14 2011 10:50 PM | mariaandrea in Green Energy
Most of us have them -- old jeans stuck in the back of closets or drawers that we no longer wear. They might be shredded beyond belief or they might not fit because we lost weight. We aren't interested in turning them into cutoff shorts because we...
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Leaf Blowers Are Bad - Here's Why
Nov 09 2011 12:00 AM | mariaandrea in Green Energy
It's a beautiful, crisp morning as I write this. The sun is burning off the remnants of wispy fog, revealing trees cloaked in vivid, startling colors of red, orange and yellow. Birds are rioting through the trees and squirrels scamper around in the...
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Creole-Style Vegetarian Jambalaya
Nov 03 2011 03:10 AM | gina in Green Energy
Total Time: Prep Time: 25 mins Cook Time:1 hour Ingredients:1/2 cup olive oil 2 cups yellow onions, small dice 1 cup red onion, small dice 1 cup bell pepper, small dice 1 cup celery, small dice 2 cups eggplants, small, diced 1 cup yellow squash, dic...
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Green Furnishing
Nov 01 2011 11:00 AM | godarna in Green Energy
How to set up an environmentally conscious home? Right now almost everyone pays attention to energy conservation when choosing electrical appliances, but one can also extend this to furniture and curtains. Furniture last much longer than fashion presc...
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30 Beautiful Green Desktop Wallpapers
Oct 31 2011 11:00 PM | Hayden in Green Energy
Today everywhere there is a shift to alternative energy and green living message given to us. We all need to keep the environment clean. Just to extend that very idea we decided to post a beautiful collection of Green Wallpapers for your desktops so th...
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Email Receipts For Paperless Shopping
Oct 28 2011 12:00 AM | mariaandrea in Green Energy
My daughter came home from her job at Banana Republic last night and mentioned that she had issued a couple of email receipts that day. "What's that?" I asked. "You don't know what email receipts are?" she replied, with a big...
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Federal Govt. Pushes Solar Energy In 6 Western...
Oct 27 2011 12:00 AM | cherrichiodo in Green Energy
I've often daydreamed about what we could do with all the open, government owned land here on the west coast. It seems our government has been dreaming big too! An article posted back in December 2010 stated that the Obama administration had pr...
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Reducing The Waste From Packaging In Landfills
Oct 26 2011 12:00 AM | mariaandrea in Green Energy
Not long ago, the checkout clerk at my local grocery store commented on the produce I was purchasing. "That's funny. We're seeing more and more people buying produce loose instead of putting it in plastic bags," she said, as she rang u...
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The World Today... As How I See It.
Oct 24 2011 12:00 AM | Green Thumb in Green Energy
I wonder what our big chances are on putting things in place, to bring order and peace to the world, to save human lives and the planet earth. For an endless clean, green and fruitful living, knowing what the problem is, discovering the root cause of t...
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What Is Your Ecological Footprint?
Oct 22 2011 12:00 AM | mariaandrea in Green Energy
How many acres of land does it take to feed you? How much energy do you consume? How do you travel and commute? Where do you live? Where do you shop? The answers to all of these questions -- and more -- comprise your ecological footprint. The footprint...
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An Inhabitable Tower Of Trees Going Up In Milan...
Oct 18 2011 06:00 AM | mariaandrea in Green Energy
Urban environments are noisy and polluted. Trees can help mitigate those problems, but there's a limited amount of space available in the core of cities to plant them. The solution may be found by looking up. 27 stories up, to be precise. In Milan, I...
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German Trains To Run On 100% Renewables
Oct 17 2011 08:00 AM | cherrichiodo in Green Energy
Deutsche Bahn—Germany's railway operator—has set a target of raising its renewable energy consumption from 20% right now, through 28% as soon as 2014, to a full 100% by 2050. With 20% of its energy coming from renewables, Germany is already...
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Food: Delicious Recipe Of The Week #3
Oct 13 2011 07:15 PM | gina in Green Energy
Mushroom and Spinach Ravioli with Chive Butter Sauce Hey Guys !! Sorry for the late posting of the weekly recipes I hope that you enjoy this one my family loves it. Prep Time: 2 Hrs Cook Time: 20 Min Ready In: 2 Hrs 20 Min...
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Food: Delicious Recipe Of The Week #2
Oct 06 2011 12:45 AM | gina in Green Energy
Grilled Portobello Sandwich with Roasted Red Pepper & Mozzarella Ingredients1 red bell pepper salt and black pepper to taste 1/2 cup olive oil 4 portobello mushroom caps, cleaned 4 slices onion 4 Kaiser rolls, split 4 teaspoons mayonnaise 1 teas...
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The Green Deals: Government Shakes Hands With D...
Oct 07 2011 11:00 AM | godarna in Green Energy
As from 2015 the Dutch government will determine what percentage of green energy suppliers have to provide to their customers. Each year the rate may be adjusted by the government. The suppliers will meet higher costs to increase the production of r...
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In The Dutch Mountains
Oct 05 2011 08:00 AM | godarna in Green Energy
In The Dutch Mountains was a hit song of The Nits written in 1987. Can you imagine a mountain in Holland? When you think of Holland, you think of tulips, wooden shoes and windmills. A flat country with many watercourses, “the nether lands”...
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Our Polluted World – An Infographic
Oct 03 2011 07:30 PM | Hayden in Green Energy
Info graphic with interesting facts about pollution around the world from Reusethisbag.com...
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Ge's Electric Car “Experience Center” Under...
Sep 22 2011 07:00 AM | Hayden in Green Energy
GE Capital Fleet Services broke ground today on a customer experience and learning center that will showcase GE's comprehensive portfolio of electric vehicle deployment solutions and help GE commercial customers evaluate EVs and other alternative fuel...
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User Friendly Manual On Green Building Operatio...
Sep 22 2011 07:00 AM | Hayden in Green Energy
Siemens Industry, Inc., today announced that the Green Building Operations and Maintenance Manual: A Guide for Public Housing Authorities, developed in collaboration with Green Seal, Inc., is now available to the public online and free of charge. Click...
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Lg Green Living Coming To A City Near You!
Sep 20 2011 07:00 AM | Hayden in Green Energy
LG’s new super-capacity French-door refrigerator just received the Good Housekeeping Seal. And now it’s making the rounds at your local farmers’ market. LG Electronics and Good Housekeeping will be visiting cities as part of the Gre...
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Ge To Provide 300 Megawatts Of Turbines For Ill...
Sep 06 2011 06:00 AM | Hayden in Green Energy
General Electric Co. (GE), the world’s biggest maker of electricity-generating equipment, will deliver 300 megawatts of wind turbines for two projects that E.ON AG (EOAN) is building in northeast Illinois. GE will provide 188 of its 1.6-megawat...
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