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- Review: Green Design: A Healthy Home Handbook by Alan Berman This latest book by author and architect Alan Berman is written with environmental sustainability in mind. In his book, Berman describes various ways to make the reader's home a more environmentally friendly place to live. The book is teeming with diagrams, simple charts and photographs, enabling users at any level...
More money saving tips As we get closer to the end of another year, I am reminded the one thing that never ends, is the opportunity to save money. I came across an article that lists 19 ways to slash your utility bill. Some of them you may have already taken care of but...- How Much Money Can You Save With A Home Energy Audit? After my last article on having a successful professional home energy audit, a reader sent me an e-mail wanting more details about what kind of money he could expect to save if he paid for an audit. Would it really be worth spending a few hundred dollars for it? It's...
4 Ways to Go Green & Increase Profit as a Business Owner Right now a lot of industries are discussing how hard it is to be a business owner. And why not? This economic recession is hitting all businesses alike…. big box stores to mom and pop shops. There is only so much you can do when consumer spending and confidence are bottomed out. The obvious consequence here is that if spending is down, so are sales, and thus profits.
Can’t run a business without profit.
So, what do we do? Well, if Plato is correct:
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
When a problem is presented, we will figure out a solution. So what is one thing businesses can do to help out their bottom lines? One way is to adopt environmentally friendly policies.
How can spending money on environmentally friendly policies increase your profit?- 22 Ways To Energy Efficiency, From The Free To The Expensive. From one of my favorite sites, Co-op America, here are 22 steps you can take -- each with the energy savings you can achieve each year. Pick the ones you'll do to get your first 10% energy savings. (These energy savings assume an average US home, which uses about 11,000...
Thinking of green calling In coming weeks there are two events related to global warming: earth hour and earth day. In the earth hour, people are advised to switch the lights off for sixty minutes. This is not only global campaign of energy saving. People around the world are reminded about dirty energy...- Guest Post - 15 Ways to Pay Less & Get More This is a guest post by David of Cartridge Save. He shares tips for getting more while paying less. Businesses and individuals alike have been impacted by the recession. The cost of living has skyrocketed and buying even the most basic of necessities has become a costly affair. It's not all doom and gloom though as service and goods providers are in fierce competition to get you to spend your hard-earned cash with them. Here are some of the ways you can pay less and get more for your money.
- How To Get Federal Tax Credits For Green Remodeling The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is full of initiatives that President Obama and Congress are hoping will boost our economy. At 1588 pages, most people probably wouldn’t take the time to read the whole thing, but there are some tax credits they might be missing out on....
How To Pick the Best Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb There's something about compact fluorescent (or CFL) bulbs and the light they put out. The light looks different from what we're used to with energy-wasting incandescent bulbs. Why is that? And is there a CFL that comes close to the light quality of incandescents? There are two ways to...
Save Money And Energy With Energy Efficient Window Choices Our homes use a lot of energy, mostly from nonrenewable resources, when it comes to heating and cooling. Home heat and air conditioning are some of the biggest contributors to carbon emissions responsible for global warming and climate change. As we fight carbon emissions, it's imperative that we do everything...
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Thinking of green calling In coming weeks there are two events related to global warming: earth hour and earth day. In the earth hour, people are advised to switch the lights off for sixty minutes. This is not only global campaign of energy saving. People around the world are reminded about dirty energy...
- How To Get Federal Tax Credits For Green Remodeling The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is full of initiatives that President Obama and Congress are hoping will boost our economy. At 1588 pages, most people probably wouldn’t take the time to read the whole thing, but there are some tax credits they might be missing out on....
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How To Pick the Best Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb There's something about compact fluorescent (or CFL) bulbs and the light they put out. The light looks different from what we're used to with energy-wasting incandescent bulbs. Why is that? And is there a CFL that comes close to the light quality of incandescents? There are two ways to...
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Save Money And Energy With Energy Efficient Window Choices Our homes use a lot of energy, mostly from nonrenewable resources, when it comes to heating and cooling. Home heat and air conditioning are some of the biggest contributors to carbon emissions responsible for global warming and climate change. As we fight carbon emissions, it's imperative that we do everything...
Seven Steps To A Successful Professional Home Energy Audit With President Obama announcing thousands of dollars in tax credits for families to increase energy efficiency in their homes, there has never been a better time to perform a home energy audit. Conducting an audit could result you in energy savings equaling hundreds or even thousands of dollars over the...
A Reflective Roof Yields Huge Energy Efficiency Savings If you're looking to build or remodel a home, one of the most important decisions you can make involves your home's roof. The roof is essential not only for keeping the elements out but for keeping the temperature in the house constant. When making your decision on roofing materials...
Rise of the LED Light Bulb While an LED light bulb such as the Evolux incandescent replacement is initially expensive, it is far less so than using incandescent bulbs over the medium to long term. They even beat CFL bulbs. This article shows you the math.
Save Energy And Money With A Home Energy Audit Ever hear of death by a thousand cuts? That's what's probably happening to your wallet without you realizing it. Day after day, you are being silently slashed from many different places in your house, wasting energy that oozes out of your house from little cracks and holes. Some of...
Simple Energy Solutions That Save Big Money As energy prices go up, many people are looking to alternative power solutions in order to save money. However, converting an entire house to go off grid can be costly, and the work involved may be too much for some homeowners. That doesn't mean that you have to abandon the...- It's All Costing More Nearly everyone is feeling the increase in cost, the cost of energy that is. Much of the world’s energy is derived from oil, and the price of oil is very noticeably going up. This is possibly going to continue for a longish period until some kind of equilibrium is achieved....
EarthTalk: Biggest Names In Disposable Paper Products Are The Worst Offenders. Dear EarthTalk: Are any major brands of disposable tissues, paper towels, napkins and toilet paper yet using recycled content and chlorine-free bleaching? Not many. In fact, some of the biggest names in disposable paper products are the worst offenders. According to the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), forests at...
A Black Imam Breaks Ground in Mecca Why out of sudden it's a news to hire a black Imam? wasn't the first Imam a black man too? RIYADH, Saudi Arabia TWO years ago, Sheik Adil Kalbani dreamed that he had become an imam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. Waking up, he dismissed the...- What Would You Take in an Emergency? We had a freak weather situation here yesterday. I almost never have the TV on and for some reason I turned it on during a light slow drizzle of a nice rain storm. All of a sudden TORNADO WARNINGS and we were exactly in the center of the path. From...
- To win championships, help student athletes "You need to help student athletes help you win championships." - Galwin Fabian Every school wants to win. Every school wants to have a trophy. Every school wants fame. Yet only few schools understand that, in order to, they need to put the right pieces together; they need jocks that...
how to stick to a decision What would you do if you were faced with almost total freedom of choice? If most of the barriers to your decision-making process were suddenly and abruptly removed? I found myself in this position a few months ago. With no employment, a location-independent side income, a stay-at-home spouse and...- Find Out Useful Secrets About Securing Your Future In Hard Times There is no doubt we are in some of the toughest economic times that we have seen in our lives. People are loosing there jobs at an alarming rate. We are holding on tight to our money and this is also having a terrible effect on the economy. Even...
Decipher Vacation Reviews, Save Money As the little "alert box" shows up above the post I am on vacation this week. I have decided to drop off the face of the planet from this past Friday to this upcoming Friday.
Drop off the face of the planet, you ask? Yep, I am going to the Dominican Republic. Some people call it a third world country. Others call it paradise. I guess it depends whether you are living there or at a 5-star hotel for a destination wedding :p.
Even though I will be gone all week, I have scheduled all my posts so the posting schedule should remain consistent unless Wordpress decides to play games and miss my scheduled postings (which it is apparently notorious for doing in the most recent version).
- Save Money Mondays I was looking at my necessary expenses the other day and I realized that I save money in many ways. It shocked me that I hadn't previously discussed all the ways that I save money. For the next couple of months, come back each Monday for an article about saving...
linklings and a giveaway This week I have a giveaway to go along with the roundup. The giveaway comes from NURU Personal Finance (http://nuruplanet.com). NURU Personal Finance is a deck of 30 ultra-thin, waterproof, and durable pocket-sized plastic cards with information to help empower Americans to make strong financial decision. Topics on the...
GM Sends A Cool Billion to Brazil but Reminds Us to Buy American! I've been fairly quiet about the Big Three Auto Bailout for some time because I really began to feel like I was beating a dead horse. But this morning, I came across news that General Motors is cutting another 10,000 jobs in the U.S. but investing $1 Billion of federal...
