Cooling and heating your house drains more energy bucks than any other standard system in your house. Around, 43% of your utility bill will go towards heating and cooling. Further, heating and cooling systems in the US all together emit approximately 150 million tons of carbon dioxide into the earths atmosphere each year, adding to [...]
Written on July 4, 2009 | Posted in
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by Pen Works
Why Organic?
It has been said that the externalized cost of chemical agriculture is being paid in the form of resource deletions, contaminated water, co2 emissions and greenhouse gases, soil depletion, and loss of species. The human cost is equally large. Loss of family-run farms and agriculture, the extermination of small towns and local [...]
Written on February 17, 2009 | Posted in
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by Carol McClelland
I recently attended a presentation at my local Green Ribbon Citizens’ Committee meeting about the global and local effects of global warming. As I listened, it occurred to me that some effects are getting more exposure than others, and yet all of the effects have a direct link to various green industries and [...]
Written on February 10, 2009 | Posted in
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