‘Green Products’

Protecting the Environment with Energy Saving Products

The environment can be protected by using energy savings products in a number of different ways. As well as being more efficient in terms of saving on energy bills, items like energy saving light bulbs, or larger solar panel systems also represent a renewable way of generating power.

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Home Wind Turbines: Ready for the Prime Time?

Reducing a home’s reliance on the “grid” for its energy needs is one of the hottest topics in environmental circles, and home wind turbine systems are some of the best options available. Unlike solar, wind turbines will generate power night and day – provided there is a constant supply of wind.

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Alternative Uses for External Doors

When is a door not a door?  When it’s a headboard, a picture frame, or a table!  Cunning and creative interior designers are turning exterior wooden doors into a whole range of useful items.

Let’s face it, when you’re renovating your home, a lot of waste is created – but you don’t have to send everything to the scrap yard.  You can reclaim, re-use, or “upcycle” a lot of old furniture and wooden items if you’re skilled at DIY.

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Is The Chinese Demand For Air Purifiers Something The West Could Experience If Environmental Conferences Fail?

Air purifiers are simply flying off of the shelves in China at the moment thanks to the heavy smog which is currently engulfing northern provinces. The smog is triggering health alerts which are expected to stay in place well into the new year.

Online retailers in China such as 360buy.com, who sell a wide variety of household appliances have seen sales of air filtration systems and humidifiers leap 50 percent since November.

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How HR Can Help Make Your Office Green

How HR Can Help Make Your Office Green

Maybe it’s because when you think of HR, you think of paperwork, or because HR takes the responsibility for employee satisfaction and more companies are realising that environmental awareness is important to their employees. For whatever reason, human resources departments are the ones who tend to institute “green” practices at the office.

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Green Holiday Gift Guide

The holidays are traditionally a time of excess:  lots of presents purchased, tons of food consumed, and a bunch of discarded paper, wrappings, and strings.  For the more eco-savvy consumer, this year might be a good time to get a start on going green.  That means selecting gifts for your loved ones that are durable as well as useful.  Here are a few practical tips for the variety of people in your life that can help the planet, your local community, your loved ones, and you:

You can start by purchasing recycled wrapping paper.  If you’re going to use it, and if it’s just going to be thrown away, you might as well make sure that it’s been recycled.  You might also consider saving bags and bows from previous years to use again.

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Your Guide to “Green “Beauty Products

If you are looking to “Go Green,” you can start with your beauty products. Non-toxic beauty products, such as Weleda and People’s Choice, are made with organically grown ingredients that help protect the environment and prevent health risks. You can find several beauty products that are “green” including nail polish remover, colorful makeup, lotion, perfume, sunscreen,hairspray, at-home peels and masks, deodorant and moisturizers.

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‘Green’ Fashion – Old Materials, New Techniques

If you’re into saving the planet then you’ve probably thought how your wardrobe can help with the fight. Modern mass produced footwear is usually a very potent mix of long chain hydrocarbons and fashion, as the traditional leather sole has in many cases been replaced by longer lasting and more durable plastics, with the result that these kinds of mass market fashion shoes are as ecologically sound as an episode of ‘Top Gear!’

New Advances in Footwear Technology

As is usually the case, in order to create ecologically sound consumer items like footwear you have to look at what our ancestors did.

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How Green Are Electric Cars Really?

With recent advances in electric vehicle technology, it seems that almost every major auto manufacturer has begun to produce their own line of electric or hybrid car, and these vehicles have gotten quite a bit of media attention. Many Americans have purchased electric cars both to save money on fuel and to ease their carbon footprints.

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Will Adding a Solar Panel To Your Car Save Gas?

The latest push towards environmentally friendly and sustainable resources involves fitting gas/electric hybrids and other vehicles with solar panels. Solar panels offer a great way to generate extra electricity without relying on generators powered by fossil fuels.

Several small companies, including Solar Electrical Vehicles in California, have set about installing solar panels on hybrids and recreational vehicles.

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