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12 Ways to Make Your House More Environmentally Friendly

12 Ways to Make Your House More Environmentally Fr...

Making your house more environmentally friendly may sound like a daunting task, yet the small efforts you do at home every day can add up in terms of saved energy and money. The following is a list of twelve (12) simple tips for making your house an eco-friendlier and healthier place to live. * Lighten up on your lights. Compact fluorescent bulbs utilize approximately 25% the energy of their regular bulb counterparts....
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Renovating Your Home the Environmentally Friendly Way

Renovating Your Home the Environmentally Friendly ...

If you’re interested in “greening up” your home renovation, here are some tips that can give you ideas. Environmentally friendly options are making it easy to improve your property without taking a heavy toll from the environment. Not only will you benefit your natural environment, you’ll also benefit your community. If you’re selling your home and want an interesting way to attract buyers,...
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Using Environmentally Friendly Paint in Your Home

Using Environmentally Friendly Paint in Your Home...

It used to be that your choices in paint were confined to the color and the question of latex vs. oil. However, our increasing knowledge of our impact on our environment is changing the face of home painting. The paint that we have taken for granted is bubbling over with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which are potential carcinogens. The fumes emitted by these substances can last for years after the paint was applied....
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Green Decorating With Indoor Plants – 5 Tips For A Sustainable Interiorscape

Green Decorating With Indoor Plants – 5 Tips...

Choosing to decorate with live foliage will not only provide an element that is literally green, plants can also contribute to a sustainable green interior. As a rapidly renewable product, live plants are a “no brainier” when selecting green accessories for your interior. This is especially true when you decide to use a live plant instead of a manufactured good, as the process of growing plants requires less...
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Home Decorating – 5 Green Ideas on a Budget

Home Decorating – 5 Green Ideas on a Budget...

Decorating your home to be environmentally friendly shouldn’t be expensive. And it shouldn’t just be for the environmental activists either; we all have a responsibility to our communities, and to our families. There are many ways you can decorate “green” for a lot less “green”! Here are The Budget Decorator’s top 5 ways to green up your home, on a budget! Use what you have: Many...
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Give Your Electric Bill the Boot – Make Your Own Free Green Power

Give Your Electric Bill the Boot – Make Your...

Every day in America and all over the world, people are making the switch to green power. It is clean, good for the environment, reliable, and best of all, free. Once you make the small initial investment to build some solar panels or windmills, they produce power for a long time, for no additional cost. A windmill or solar power collector can be built for less than two hundred dollars, and with materials that are easily...
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DIY – Make Your Own Green Cleaners and Save Money!

DIY – Make Your Own Green Cleaners and Save ...

Be DIY and save a few bucks. Here we go. Recipe #1, Soft Scrubber- This is easy. Pour 1/2 cup of baking soda into a bowl or bucket, add enough liquid detergent to make a texture like frosting (not too hard). Scoop the mixture onto a wet sponge, and wash the dirty surface that you made it for. This is the perfect washing the bathtub and sinks because it rinses easily and doesn’t leave grit, which always reminds me...
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Remodel Or Build Your Home “Green” and Save Money!

Remodel Or Build Your Home “Green” and...

In these days many people are struggling just to keep their homes and fewer people are buying and selling. If you are in a position of deciding to keep your home and remodel and/or enlarge or sell and move-up or even downsize, then here are some options to consider. Let me just say first, hate to admit it but I am not an environmentalist, I don’t drive a hybrid and I’m not even good at recycling my own trash....
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Building Your Dream Home Green

Building Your Dream Home Green...

In this day and age, there is a big push for everything around you to be built green. That means that it is better for the environment in many different ways. There are many different components of each individual home that when combined, make for an earth friendly space to live in. Building your own home and building it green requires quite a bit of knowledge in the ways of what is earth friendly and what isn’t. There...
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Solar Panels For Home Use – How to Make Your House Green and Energy Efficient

Solar Panels For Home Use – How to Make Your...

Solar panels for home use are now not only widely manufactured, but the pace in which they are being adopted is picking up pace too. Many people are now concerned about issues such as global warming, energy efficiency, carbon emissions, doing what we can to help protect and preserve our environment. They may also have heard that this method of powering the home is not only friendly to the environment but will also lead...
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