Category: Green Building
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How To – Finding Recycled Materials To Reduce Your Home Project Cost
Everyone wants to save money and while you are searching the net or local sales circular for discount prices you may also want to look into recycled building materials. Now I know what you are thinking why would you want to buy someone’s old used toilet.. Well doing that is probably not a good idea…
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Water – Saving Money at the Faucet
How would you like to save 50% or more of the water you send down your drain? Everyone would but when it comes to saving water, electric or fuel it seems there is always someone telling you that you need to spend money to save. They say buy this thing for $50 and it will save you…
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London Rail System To Power Lights From Foot Traffic
The London Rail System is looking into powering some of its lights by the way of generator pads placed in the floor of its underground system. The pads generate electricity through Heel Strike technology. When travelers walk over the pad their weight compresses it and that motion energy is sent to generators. With over 34,000 passengers that pass…
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USA Increases Wind Power Output By 50% in 2008
In 2008 the nation got 50% more of its electricity from wind power. More than 8,500 megawatts of additional power generated by wind turbines was added last year. Texas is the leading state in the nation bringing almost 3000 megawatts of new Wind Power Electric online last year making it number one in the country. …
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How To – Design Ideas For Green Kitchen Makeovers
The amount of time that we spend in our kitchens seems to ever be growing so improving one of the most important parts of our home is something we all can benefit from. When choosing green products for our kitchens it is always important to take a close look at the cost vs the benefit.…