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5 Green and Clean Waste Solutions for all Homeowners

In these times of climate change and financial squeeze, many Americans are wondering how to economize while becoming more green and clean. Luckily, by making simple and convenient changes to how you manage your home waste, you can both save money and reduce your carbon footprint. Recycle bottles, cans and plastics from home Most Americans have access to curbside recycling through the garbage company or via other local services, such as Lakeshore Recycling. Despite these conveniences, accordin
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Why any industry should support green motion

HOW TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION HAS CHANGED OUR BUYING HABITS

Over the past years, the world technological innovation has been on the increase with the recent trend of the introduction of smartphones. This is a great influence on customers buying habits today. Technology can be greatly described as the best world changing agent that have drastically changed the way people operate and associate with each other. Its contribution in the transport, Purchase, communication and social life cannot be emphasized. As a matter of fact, technological innovation
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Why any industry should support green motion

Why it’s IT industry which should set a tendency towards “green culture” and focus on environment improvement

At first, it may seem that information technology and green movement can’t have common ground. But in recent years, the IT industry get leading positions in every aspect of human life. The appearance of “smart city” movement has changed the accepted notion of urban life and prove that the intersection of a digital solution and environmental needs gave birth to the phenomena of Smart City. It’s turned out to be the perfect way of enhancing the quality of urban life and services. The active implem
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Andrew Newitt's Blog

Green Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses

Green marketing is a strategy many companies today choose to adopt. A big number of consumers want to take part in preserving the environment and this creates a great opportunity for smaller businesses to promote themselves as environmentally conscious. This strategy has proved to be quite effective and it has even created a couple of “green” brands over the years. It does not matter if a company’s products or services are connected with saving the environment, declaring it eco-friendly will alw
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Angie's Enviro-Friendly Blog

How Air Filters Can Be Good for the Home Environment

Sometimes, the home environment can cause more harm than good. It may be hard to believe, but indoor air can possibly be several times more polluted than the air that we breathe outside. This can be because of the products that we use indoors, how often we DON’T clean, or the lack of ventilation in the home. One way of ensuring that the home environment, particularly the air that we breathe in while indoors, is healthy is by installing air filters. They can be good for the indoor environm
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Angie's Enviro-Friendly Blog

The Threat of Asbestos to the Environment

Asbestos is known now as a toxic substance, but up until a few decades back, it was widely used in a lot of products. This went on until the late 1980s, when countries started banning it from use. Products that contained asbestos were promptly discontinued. Yet, as years went by, the risks that exposure to this toxic substance brought about are still at large, even though it has been decades since its use was banned. But just what is asbestos, and how does it concern us and the environmen
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Angie Cole

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Why any industry should support green motion

Why Car Renting Business Should Support Green Motion

In as much as change is natural and normal when negative effects start arising which counter the gains already made, this is a bad thing. Regrettably, those who end up suffering are not simply those who are causing the problems. This is why using electric cars in the car renting business is quite welcome and beneficial. With ecologists claiming that there are numerous destructive alterations which happen to the Earth due to gas emissions and such similar things, it is beneficial when busin
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Daniel Myrick

Trading The Environment

The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference was a rousing success in Paris this year… for people in international trade. There is some hopeful talk as well as some fluff published by the United Nations left to show that no one really cares about the environment. The motto was “eat, think, save.”  People get carried away with the spirit the event is supposed to create that it becomes harder to even consider what such catchphrases mean. Recyclable cups were championed? Sure, the
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Andrew Newitt's Blog

The Environmental Benefits of Organic Agriculture

Even though some farmers who grow their plants in conventional way say that organic agriculture does not have more environmental benefits, facts speak for themselves. The Organic Trade Association claims that if all farmers in the United States switched to organic productions, we would stop around 500 million pounds of dangerous pesticides from entering the environment each year. This would have a major impact on all aspects of the environment, and here it is how. Water   Many pra
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Andrew Newitt

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HannahWhittenly's Blog

Greener Globetrotting: Your Guide to Sustainable Tourism

As a tourist, you love to see new sights, but as an eco-friendly citizen of the world, you wince at the thought of polluting the Earth as you do it. For green-minded globetrotters, here are an array of tips for staying green as you travel. That way, you can see the world with a clean conscience. Buy Local Wherever you go, be sure to buy local, whether that includes food, souvenirs, or anything else. There are a lot of places that try to trick tourists with souvenirs that were produced
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HannahWhittenly

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Anita Ginsburg's Blog

Six Things People Are Doing to Encourage a Greener Future

Two problems the human race faces today are global warming and pollution. To ensure that the Earth remains habitable for people and animals, changes must occur. Thankfully, some people are taking the initiative to encourage a greener future. Below are six such examples. 1. Farmers Starting Wind Farms In years past, farmers could only produce income by raising livestock and growing crops. Today, however, farmers all across the Midwest have been farming wind. This is done by giving permi
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Samantha & Sustainability

Cigarette Butts and Their Impact on the Environment

Do you have any idea how many cigarette butts are littered in Australia each year? Billions. Those small things, combined together, have some serious impact on the environment around us. Let’s see how. For starters the cigarette smoke contains about 4000 chemicals, and every second the butt is alight those toxins are released in the environment. Another problem, that carelessly flicked cigarettes cause, are fires. But the true problem is caused by the material the butts are made from. The filter
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Sustainable Lifestyle in The Land Down Under

New Green Wall and Roof Policy in Sydney

Green roofs and walls are often discussed these days. But few realise that they have been part of Sydney's landscape since the 1930's. True, they were a rare sight back then a luxury reserved only for multi-national companies and just in ten years there has been a 70% spike in the number of green buildings across the metropolis. However, over the last eighty years local government in NSW's capital city has done much to support and encourage the green roofs and wall installations in the metropoli
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How to Raise Green Children

How to Raise Green Children

Love to nature and to green living should be nourished from the very childhood. If kids are raised in a family where everyone enjoys healthy living and appreciates our environment, they grow up the same way and pass it all to their children, as well. There are certain things you can do to make that happen for your family. Here some suggestions. Teach them to love and respect the environment You should talk to your kids about loving and preserving nature, read interesting books on this
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Solar Energy

COP21: Positive Aspects For Solar Industry

What Are The Positive Aspects For The Solar Industry Of The New Climate Agreement Adopted In Paris And Which Ones Do Not Convince? As everyone knows, the evening of Saturday 12 at CoP21 in Paris was approved the long-awaited global agreement to tackle the climate crisis. The agreement adopted by the 195 countries that participated in the Conference UNFCCC aims to stop global warming "below the 2 ° C" from pre-industrial levels, but also mentions the will to contain it within the 1.5 ° C.
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Solar Energy in Uruguay

Spirea GmbH completed an ecological solar PV system for agro-industrial company Farolur SA, Uruguay

Montevideo, Uruguay, December 12, 2015 German cleantech company Spirea GmbH, together with its local partner ERGO SRL have announced the completion of a pilot solar photovoltaic system of 5kWp for company Farolur S.A. in Laguna del Sauce, Maldonado, Uruguay. The project consists of the installation of 20 photovoltaic panels in the dairy farm and production complex of Farolur, located in the department of Maldonado (Ruta 12 Km 10, paraje Los Ceibos). The panels are connected to the netw
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Spirea Advisors

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Solar Energy in Uruguay

The Future Is Bright: The Potential for Decentralized Solar Power in Uruguay

Montevideo, Uruguay, December 12, 2015 The Climate talks in Paris are marking a turning point for human history and solar energy plays an important role in it. The history is not repeating itself: in contrast to the climate talks in Copenhagen 2009 which ended as a huge failure, the 2015 negotiations in Paris will remain in history as a success and a starting point into a new era. This first time mankind, the world takes a united stance in actively managing greenhouse gas emissions. The fir
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Spirea Advisors

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Solar Energy in Uruguay

Spirea GmbH installed a pilot PV system for the Faculty of Engineering at the University of the Republic in Uruguay

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 10th December 2015 German company Spirea GmbH, together with its local partner ERGO SRL have announced the installation and connection of a pilot solar photovoltaic system of 2kWp for the Faculty of Engineering (FING) at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay.   The project consists of the installation of 8 photovoltaic panels with micro inverters at rooftop of the Institute of Electrical Engineering, located in Parque Rodó. The system is conne
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Spirea Advisors

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Lizzie Weakley's Green Blog

5 Energy Efficient Ways to Keep your Office Warm this Winter

These five energy efficient tips will keep your office warm and your bills low this winter. Most of these tips are incredibly simple to implement and should become annual best practices for your office. Adjust the Thermostat Keep the office cooler at night when no one is there working. Raise the temperature a few hours before people arrive so they are able to work in a pleasant environment straight away. Maintain the temperature at a comfortable level that is neither too hot nor too cold for
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Tips for buying an ecofriendly roof

How to inspect your roof for damage

Most homeowners don’t give their roof a second thought until it’s too late and water is pooling up above their ceiling and causing it to bulge. By the time leaks are manifesting themselves inside your home, the damage to your roof and your home’s interior is significant and repair costs will be high. Amuch better option is to regularly inspect and maintain your roof so that any problems are caught before they start.Spring is always a great time to inspect your roof because it has just endured th
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HannahWhittenly's Blog

Creative Ideas for Your Outdoor Herb Garden

Herb gardening is as easy as the fresh herbs are flavorful. Small flower beds, vertical spaces, and even odd corners can be turned into a productive herb garden with these helpful hints and inspirational ideas. If you don’t want to do all the initial digging and planting work, a local Utah landscaping company would be glad to do the ground-breaking work for you, and help make your herb garden idea a reality. Small Spaces Apartment and condo dwellers that have small outdoor spaces can st
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HannahWhittenly

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Ljuben Georgiev's Blog

A Few Ways Going Green Can Save You Money

Going green can sometimes be very expensive but with the sprouting up of environmentally friendly companies there are far more option than ever in the past. There are plenty of ways that going green can help save money so why wouldn’t someone do it? Most people do not realize that going green can save them money in the long run. It can be one of the best investments that they make. Energy efficient lightbulbs cut down on power usage as it used 1/10 to 1/25 of the energy that a regula
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Ljuben Georgiev's Blog

Paper Shredding Tips for Businesses

Being a business owner involves a lot of decisions on daily basis and with the seemingly growing number of cases related with ID theft, you just can’t afford to dispose of any business documents by simply throwing them in the bin. If you are like most of the people, when reading this statement, you probably think – this is never going to happen to me and/or there isn’t that much information included in the papers. The truth is criminals can steal the identity of your company or even more sensiti
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