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Money from trees — save on utility bills and heal the atmosphere
By Diane Porter Green Right Now Wouldn’t you just love to pick your house up, turn it this way and that way on the lot, and figure out where it really makes the most sense? The spot where it catches...
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Cool your roof with white to save money and the environment
By Melissa Segrest Green Right Now Everything old is new again. Even roofs. Anyone who is well traveled knows that white roofs have topped homes and buildings in the Middle East and countries around...
View ArticleThe changing Face(book) of the times…
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Even though we generally subscribe to the Marxist theory of groups — that is, Groucho Marx’s maxim that “I wouldn’t belong to any club that would have me as a...
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Aeonian brick –‘Legos’ for people who want greener, hurricane-safe homes
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now While people scurry to devise new green components for homes, Don Blalock is in the enviable position of launching one that he’s been nursing along for the last six...
View ArticleMcKinsey & Company: Quick, get out the duct tape!
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Wherever you turn, someone, somewhere is talking about climate change. And that’s a good thing. But it’s not a happy conversation. Often, the discussion pivots on...
View ArticleThank God It’s Thursday
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now If you worked a four-day work week, you’d be gearing up to knock off about now, as I write this on a Thursday. Of course you wouldn’t know I was writing this,...
View ArticleLED lights debut at Air and Space Museum
Green Right Now Reports Cree’s LED lights will get to show they’re ready for premium uses at a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. Cree, a North Carolina...
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Olympic Games medal in energy efficiency
By Harriet Blake Green Right Now Vancouver scored highly as an Olympic venue despite weather concerns. Equally impressive, the Winter Games also scored well in terms of their energy efficiency....
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Steven Chu: Making buildings energy efficient ‘is truly low hanging fruit’
(In this piece, reprinted from a collection of essays assembled by the World Economic Forum, a Switzerland-based non-profit commited to improving the state of the world, U.S. Secretary of Energy argues...
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Be part of the solution: Chipping away at coal
By Melissa Segrest Green Right Now Coal-fired power plant (Photo: Braen Gunem/Dreamstime.) Sitting in a heap atop the list of climate change offenders is coal. Coal-burning power plants account for 20...
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Get your ducts in a row
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now You can hear them rattle in the winter, and rumble in the summer. Whether they’re underfoot or overhead in the attic, these unseen monsters can really make a...
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Furniture Row finds cost savings with Cree LED lighting
From Green Right Now Reports Who says it too expensive to change out the bulbs? Cree LEDs are more energy efficient and cooler than the halogens they're replacing. (Photo: Cree.) Not the Furniture Row...
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Introduction to LEDs: What you need to know
This LED uses just 6 watts. From Green Right Now Reports As with other technologies, advances in lighting just keep coming. Now that you’re somewhat comfortable with CFL — compact fluorescent lamp —...
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Addressing climate change would save money
Missing the Point on Climate Andrew Winston The media seems intent on giving climate skeptics much more than equal time. On Monday, the New York Times printed a cover story about the last arrow in the...
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Five hopeful signs that we could save our planet if we really want to
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Other than the 2012 Olympics, it’s been a discouraging hot, drought-y month this July. Greenland ice sheets are melting ominously. India plunged into darkness and...
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LED Christmas lights can save energy and aggravation
By Bill Sullivan Green Right Now If you’ve been in the business of shopping for holiday lighting the past few years, you’ve probably noted some not-so-subtle changes in the offerings at your local...
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Swimming Pool Retrofit: Save Energy And Dollars On Your Backyard Paradise
By Paula Minahan Swimming pools are a big draw in summer, but when it comes to energy consumption, they can be a big drain. Award-winning green architect Peter Pfeiffer shared his own experience on...
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Want to save money? Save energy
From KVUE-Austin You can save money and the earth in the current economy. KVUE’s Jill Cordes explains in our project green report. >> Watch now
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