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Green Resources

• 02.29.08
  Keep Your Green by Staying “Green”   Green Resources (0)

  If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Keep money in your pocket while protecting the environment. Here are 10 tips to save energy at home.
  Unplug seldom used appliances Even when not in use, your appliances are draining electricity from your outlets if left plugged in. Keep […]

• 02.28.08
  Empiter Mailbox, Cleaner Air - Get Rid of Junk Mail   Green Resources (0)

  Very rarely do we ever look forward to checking the mail. It’s mostly “You’ve been pre-approved!” credit card offers, “Save $100’s at these stores!” coupons, and some magazine about premium cigars that the previous resident subscribed to. Oh yeah, and bills. While bills are a fact of life, junk mail shouldn’t have to be.
  100 million […]

• 02.28.08
  National Labs and Venture Capitalists Unite   Green Resources (0)

  The U.S. Department of Energy has just started its Entrepreneur in Residence program by putting an experienced entrepreneur from three venture capitalist firms into three of the DOE’s national laboratories. The entrepreneur will examine the laboratories’ clean energy technologies, pick the best one and run with it. The capitalist firms will then license the technology […]

• 02.28.08
  The Risk of Florescent Lights   Green Resources (0)

  Two reports were recently issued by the state of Maine and the Vermont-based Mercury Policy Project stating that compact florescent lamps (those spiral light bulbs) can pose a small risk of mercury poisoning to young people and pregnant women. Oh no! How did they figure that out?
  For the Maine study, researchers broke 65 of the […]

• 02.27.08
  Raising Eco-Friendly Children   Green Resources (0)

  As the saying goes, children are our future, so it’s important to teach them about the planet they’re going to inherit. Kids this day and age, spend far too much time in front of televisions and computers or glued to the newest hand held gaming device. Children need to be aware of the current crisis […]

• 02.26.08
  Sails Make a Comeback   Green Resources (0)

  As wonderful and exciting as using eco-friendly renewable resources are, there still remains a large, un-friendly problem: shipping. Just about everything makes its way across the big blue during some part of its life, and it’s almost always on a CO2 spewing ship. Isn’t there a better way?
  On January 22, 2008, the Beluga Group in […]

• 02.25.08
  Solar Power at Night   Green Resources (0)

  Large, unwieldy solar panels abound atop many a business and home these days in an effort to save the world. Although worth it in the long run, the panels are costly and only capture about 20% of the usable energy that strikes them. Plus, they only work during the day. Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory […]

• 02.09.08
  Zero Carbon Zero Waste City   Green Resources (0)

  Zero carbon zero waste city seems to be a concept straight out of science fiction. But its all set to be a reality soon. Thanks to the grand plan of Lord Foster, we are soon likely to witness the birth of the first city that’s completely green.
  The earth today is reeling under a severe crisis […]