‘Green Living’

Be More Green and Save More Green with Free Online Calculators

“Going green” is hard to do without spending money, while saving money is difficult to do these days without taking steps to lead a more sustainable life. It’s an undoubtedly obnoxious cycle for those who care about the environment, but are too strapped for cash to do much about it.

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Energy Star Isn’t Good Enough Anymore: How New HVAC Technology is Crushing Old Standards

For years, the echelon of energy efficiency in home appliances (such as fridges) and HVAC equipment has been the Energy Star rating. If you want that coveted tax rebate for your new furnace, you purchase an Energy Star device. If you want to ensure your next electric bill is as low as possible,  you buy an Energy Star rated air conditioner.

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How to Be Active In Cleaning Up Our Environment

Helping the world can be expensive and time consuming.  Which is a shame considering we all may want to do our part, but lack the time away from our careers to clean up rivers and highways, or the money to donate to organizations that do have the time.

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Who Doesn’t Want To Live In A Better World?

It does not take much to adjust your lifestyle so you have less of an impact on the environment. While it might seem just a little inconvenient to recycle your paper and plastic bottles, if everyone did their part, it would have a meaningful impact on our environment.

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Is Population Control Really Necessary for a Greener Planet?

Population control is always a contentious issue for a huge variety of reasons and, as a result, is something many of us are wary of discussing at all, with the horror stories we’ve heard from countries that have implemented population control policies lurking in the backs of our minds.

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Green Habits that Cost Nothing

It’s incredibly important to green your lifestyle and lower your personal impact on the environment. Unfortunately, many of the best ways to do this can be expensive, such as purchasing more energy-efficient appliances or purchasing sustainable materials and organic products. If you want to be more eco-friendly, it is possible to do so without even touching your bank account.

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Why You Should Dispose of Computer Equipment in an Environmentally Friendly Way

This piece on environmental safety is written by James, a blogger for one of the better accounting firms in Perth.

Recently, there has been increasing awareness of the potential pollution problems that come from used computer equipment.

In most cities the Local Government, or the group that is responsible for your rubbish collection, will have information on how to dispose of your electronic goods.

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5 Easy Recycling Ideas to Save Our Landfills

Back when cavemen and women walked the earth, there wasn’t a lot of waste. If a guy’s stone club broke it was still, well, a stone. That’s not so today. We use a huge variety of products to the end of their life cycle and then struggle to dispose of them properly.

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Top Ways to Go Green in 2012

In need of some new ideas when it comes to going green? Make 2012 the year you finally finish your mission of turning your polluting homestead into an energy-efficient eco-friendly unit by hopping on the latest technology and techniques that help you lead a greener life.

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Creative Ways to Save Ink and Paper

If you do a lot of printing at home, it can get fairly expensive. You’re continually using up your ink and paper supplies, and those items aren’t cheap. Ink especially can be very costly. If you want to save on ink and paper, you have to be very conscious of your printer usage.

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