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Really Cool Pieces Of Eco Office Furniture

May 20, 2013 6:49 PM0 comments
Really Cool Pieces Of Eco Office Furniture

In the eco-friendly society in which we all live in, many businesses are looking at ways to help in this regard. Installing furniture made from sustainable materials is one easy way to start thinking about going green. Home offices can also be made eco-friendly, with some really stylish and contemporary [...]

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Using Green Products to Remodel Your Home and Yard

March 25, 2013 11:10 AM0 comments
Using Green Products to Remodel Your Home and Yard

When you’re looking to remodel and revamp your home, there are several ecological options that will not only save you money in the long run, but give your home a modern, sophisticated and sophisticated look. As you start to turn your home green, you will certainly realize that green products [...]

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Pandas Threatened By Rising Temperatures

November 14, 2012 9:14 PM0 comments
Pandas Threatened By Rising Temperatures

Global warming and climate change may be on their way claiming their next victims: Pandas. A new study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, estimates that temperature hikes in China over the next century will have a negative impact on bamboo. Pandas, which are already an endangered species with less than [...]

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Tips for buying an Eco-friendly Mattress

November 2, 2012 2:12 PM0 comments
Tips for buying an Eco-friendly Mattress

Just about everywhere, it looks like many people these days are purposefully taking steps to have greener lifestyles. We recycle; we reduce and then reuse, have short showers and switching off the lights, turning off the TV set and electronic equipment when nobody is using them. Nowadays eco-friendly, environment-conserving lifestyle [...]

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Modern Eco-Friendly Items

October 7, 2012 11:55 AM0 comments
Cardboard is recyclable and has many lesser known uses, which make it a green material.

As new ideas for green, sustainable products continually make their debut into the market place it is fun to take note of the creativity being used by product innovators. Many of these innovators are always looking to identify eco-friendly items to manufacture things out of. In this post I want [...]

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Why Bamboo Flooring is an Eco-friendly Flooring Option

September 16, 2012 6:20 AM1 comment
Why Bamboo Flooring is an Eco-friendly Flooring Option

The environmental advantages to bamboo floors are many. Bamboo is a high quality eco-friendly product which adds as much value to a house as a new traditional hardwood floor would. Regardless of whether you are designing a new home or remodeling an existing home with green in mind, the features [...]

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The real impact of green flooring

June 26, 2012 6:15 AM0 comments
The real impact of green flooring

Thanks to third party non-profit organizations like the Forest Stewardship Council, which independently certifies responsibly sourced wood for businesses and individuals, green flooring options are now more abundant than ever. New technologies have made it possible to source flooring from all new places and that means homeowners and businesses are [...]

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Efficiency And Environmental Responsibility With Window Blinds

June 25, 2012 7:35 PM1 comment
Efficiency And Environmental Responsibility With Window Blinds

The efficiency of a home or office is measured in various ways. For instance, there is the money spent to heat or cool it. Add to this the energy costs of lighting a room, or the methods to prevent wear to interior features. Where one might think that changing windows [...]

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6 Unusual Uses for Bamboo

May 17, 2012 5:37 AM1 comment
Photo via Panda Bicycles

When we think of bamboo, most minds will drift towards a cute mental image of a Panda having a good chew on this wood-like food. Other than feeding Pandas, bamboo is commonly used as a decorative material to create things like flooring and rugs, but you may be surprised to [...]

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Green methods of producing clothes

April 19, 2012 1:01 PM2 comments
Green methods of producing clothes

Most people understand the negative impact that driving cars or dumping trash has on the environment but never think about the impact of the clothes they purchase and wear. The manufacture of nylon and polyester releases massive amounts of nitrous oxide into the atmosphere, a greenhouse gas that is over [...]

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