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Green Web Hosting

As more and more people begin to care about the planet we live on, the word “eco-friendly” is being used more often and louder every year. We know about recycled products, renewable energy sources, but what do we know about green web-hosting? Everything on the planet requires energy and web servers are not an exception, as you can see. A single web server works on a continuous basis every day and it requires a lot of electricity to operate the processes. Now imagine a center with a huge num
Helen Hepburn

Helen Hepburn

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Lizzie Weakley's Green Blog

5 Ways to Encourage Environmental Safety and Responsibility in Your Community

There's no question that the earth is important. It's where we live, work, and raise our families. Sometimes issues like pollution and environmental responsibility seem too big to address. After all, we are talking about the entire world! The best that you can do to address these issues is to begin on your local level. Check out these five ways that you can encourage environmental safety and responsibility in your community. Education Education is crucial to the beginning of any environmental
LizzieWeakley

LizzieWeakley

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HannahWhittenly's Blog

4 Ways To Have A More Energy-Efficient Home

It is impossible to live without heating and cooling your house throughout the year. However, energy costs are usually one of the biggest expenses in a home every year, but you can drastically reduce this expense by making your home more energy-efficient. If you take the time to make these four changes to your home, then you will have no problem cutting down on your energy bills in your newly efficient home.   Install New Windows If you have not replaced the windows in your
HannahWhittenly

HannahWhittenly

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Killymoon

How to Decorate your Home More Sustainably

Being environmentally-friendly can sometimes cause headaches, especially when it comes to purchasing new items. New items for your home are quite often not only unsustainably sourced but can also be pricey and come from unethical merchandisers. As a self-proclaimed vegan hippie chick and passionate home decorator, I’ve outlined my top tips on how to redecorate your home more sustainably depending on your style. Vintage Darling When choosing new décor and furniture to buy for
Killymoon

Killymoon

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Shades of an Apple Green Home

5 Ways Businesses Can Operate in More Earth-Friendly Ways

Businesses utilizing strategies to help with the environment are always worth looking up to. There is no need, however, to downright change your entire lifestyle and how you work too much in the world of business. Just a few small changes to how you do business can make a big difference to the Earth. Implement these environmentally techniques to make a small change to the world. Organic Office Furniture Not many people realize the power in the world of simply buying organic furniture.
RachelleW

RachelleW

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HannahWhittenly's Blog

5 Great Green Ways To Market Your Business

There has never been a better time to go green with marketing than right now. Long gone are the days of bulky newsletters and flyers. Once you choose the right online marketing platform, your presence will be instantly accessible to whoever owns a computer or a smartphone. Here are 5 of the most effective green marketing models that can help you reach all of your business goals.   Social Media Let’s start with the easiest and most common platform. Social media. Social media
HannahWhittenly

HannahWhittenly

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HannahWhittenly's Blog

Easy Ways to Improve Your Company's Efficiency

The success of any business is determined by the quality of the products and services it offers. Another key factor includes having suitable prices that meet client and customer requirements. Businesses need to set up strategic plans on how they can improve performance in order to succeed in the long run. Improving a company’s efficiency does not necessarily reduce operational costs, but it can motivate employees to perform even better and do wonders to help your overall bottom line. Engage You
HannahWhittenly

HannahWhittenly

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Green Energy

Effectual Tips to Save Electricity on Laundry

Doing your regular laundry task through the washing machine and tumbler, literary devour electricity. It has been estimated that in average household laundry consumes nearly 5 percent of the overall electricity bill. By bringing small changes to the regular procedure of washing clothes, one can cut down the energy bill to a significant level. Nearly 90% of the electricity used in a washing machine goes behind heating up the water and the rest of the energy is needed to run the motor of the machi
greenenergy

greenenergy

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Lizzie Weakley's Green Blog

7 Ways to go the Extra Mile for a Greener and Cleaner Environment

Although there are many ways to go green, it can be difficult to know how to take the first step. Luckily, there are many small and large scale ways to join the movement for a cleaner environment. Read on for some inspiring ideas about how to take initiative and make the world a greener, cleaner place. Read and Recycle Reading is an appealing past time, but buying books can become expensive and there is also the issue of what to do with them post reading. Why not practice recycling and suppo
LizzieWeakley

LizzieWeakley

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Shades of an Apple Green Home

Green Ideas for Manufacturing Needs and Processes

The manufacturing industry remains a topic when it comes to a lack of eco-consciousness. Its use of oil, coal, natural gas and toxic processes has labeled the industry a major contributor to waste, and air and water pollution. While other industries are lauded for implementing eco-friendly operations, manufacturing gets finger pointed for generating greenhouse gases and either depleting or harming natural resources. While it may be slow going, the industry is pushing for green initiatives.
RachelleW

RachelleW

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Green Living Blog

5 Eco-friendly Uses for Waste Water

According to the UN News Center, one of the world's most pressing issues is meeting water needs. Without changes in water consumption and conservation, the world will find it challenging to meet the water needs of the world's 2050 projected population of 9.6 billion. With extreme drought threatening areas including metropolitan California and southern Somalia, conserving water and reusing water will make what we have go further. Try these tips to make a difference. Use a Shower Bucket
Meghan Belnap

Meghan Belnap

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Anita Ginsburg's Blog

The Top Five Benefits Of Solar Power For Your Home

Solar power is not a new concept. Ever since ancient times, people have used skylights and windows to light their homes, used passive solar collectors such as stone or cement to warm chilly nights, and located rain barrels in sunny areas to heat water for bathing. More recently, technology has produced new and efficient ways to collect, store, and use solar energy to power individual homes and businesses. Solar energy has many benefits. Here are five of the best.   Lower Utility B
AnitaGinsburg

AnitaGinsburg

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Lizzie Weakley's Green Blog

5 Ways to Make your Community Greener and Cleaner

Sustainable living is becoming more popular over time. Plenty of people are trying to reduce their ecological footprint by doing things such as eating less meat, composting food waste and using reusable shopping bags. While all of these things are great, creating a greener community will increase the effects of these efforts. Here are five ways to get your community to live greener lifestyles. Eat Local Transporting food thousands of miles increases emission output into the air. Th
LizzieWeakley

LizzieWeakley

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The Green Machine Blog

Tips for Reducing Your Car’s Carbon Footprint

Driving can have a hugely negative impact on your carbon footprint, and while we all strive to reduce our personal drain on the environment, there are some things we struggle to do without. While you work toward a world that lives in harmony with earth, there are some things you can do to reduce your car’s carbon footprint. Share a Car Most families have more than one car, and more often than not, each car is intended for the transportation of one person at a time. Getting rid of one c
Dixie Somers

Dixie Somers

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HannahWhittenly's Blog

How Eco-Tourism Will Change the Way We Travel

Eco-tourism is one of the fastest growing travel industry segments. Thirty years ago it was in its infancy, but now has blossomed into a dynamic way for people to connect with the nature, environment, and people around them. It’s already changing the way we travel by providing motivation to tread lightly, to respect other cultures, and to respect the diversity of our entire ecosystem. Eco-tourism will continue changing the way we travel in the future.   More Culturally Sustainable Trav
HannahWhittenly

HannahWhittenly

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HannahWhittenly's Blog

Want to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint? 5 Easy Ways to Start

Carbon pollution is quickly taking a toll on the entire planet. Reducing your carbon footprint can go a long way towards helping preserve our precious environment. These are five quick and easy changes you can make to your daily life that will help you reduce your carbon footprint and save money at the same time.   Unplug Unused Electronics Electronics use a small amount of electricity, even when they are turned off and plugged into the wall. The only way to eliminate this unneede
HannahWhittenly

HannahWhittenly

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Green Lifestyle

How Pharmaceuticals Are Ruining the Environment

For millions and billions of years, our beautiful green planet has been able to fend for itself. Everything it was intertwined with was completely natural and the environment was capable of dealing with it on its own. However, then came the man and learned to synthesize things that could not be so easily decomposed in nature, like plastics, for example. Unlike plastics, there are some worse things out there, things that not only stay within the natural cycle forever, but also pollute it to its v
Claire

Claire

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HannahWhittenly's Blog

How to Integrate More Recycling Habits into Your Home

If you want to increase your recycling efforts to be more earth-friendly, you’ll need to make some changes at home. Having an earth-friendly house is an admirable goal, but getting there can be a challenge especially when trying to change daily habits. Follow these tips to improve your family’s recycling of paper, metal, and plastic items to reduce the amount of trash that goes into landfills.  Think before You Shop While shopping for food and other household goods for a family, think about w
HannahWhittenly

HannahWhittenly

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Green Living Blog

The Healthy Benefits of Organic Fertilizer for Your Yard

A lush, green yard starts with healthy soil, and that usually means using soil amendments to make sure that it's as nutrient-rich as it needs to be. With all of the different types of fertilizer on the market, it can be tough to make the best choice for you, your plants, and the surrounding environment. When it comes to organic fertilizer, there are some key advantages that shouldn't be overlooked. Long-term Improvement Most people don't really look past the nutrient boost that fertili
Meghan Belnap

Meghan Belnap

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Aaron Campbell's Blog

6 Different Waste Disposal Methods

Dealing with waste is one of the present-day challenges that modern societies face. In the constant battle with tones and tones of waste, modern methods have to be developed in order to provide adequate solutions. Waste disposal methods take many forms, some of which more popular than others. Which one is used depends on a variety of factors, such as technological advancement and present features in the location where waste removal takes place. Here are few of the top techniques used for
Aaron Campbell

Aaron Campbell

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Tommy's Green Blog

Useful Tips on How to Recycle Your E-Waste

Business and consumer electronic equipment that’s no longer useful is classed as e-waste. As some components contain dangerous materials, it’s important that you dispose of them properly. This article will help you do just that and think twice before littering or illegal dumping all kind of waste: E-waste is created from anything that’s electronic so this includes TVs, monitors, computers, mobile phones, printers and fax machines to name but a few. The threat to the environment from harmful
TommyJayJay

TommyJayJay

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HannahWhittenly's Blog

Green Dream: Ideas to Improve Your Home's Efficiency

Seems like everyone these days is trying to become a little greener. You probably already recycle and if you’re lucky, maybe have even upgraded to a hybrid car. But what can you do for your home? There is certainly an environmental benefit of conserving energy and resources and can help the earth stay clean, but in the end it also saves you money to improve your energy at home. There are small things you can start doing today and more long-term solutions that you can plan for in the near future
HannahWhittenly

HannahWhittenly

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Green Life

Top 3 Green Cities In The USA

Public Parks as a Necessity Moving into the other city happens for many reasons. Some people are in search for the better job and career opportunity, others look for the numerous leisure and culture experiences. And still others, who are keeping a high profile lately, want to find not just a standard place to live but also a place to admire. That means it has to be beautiful and ecologically safe. In order to achieve such effect, a big amount of public parks is essential. Why is it so impor
JessLaw

JessLaw

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