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15 Tips to Living Green in Your Home

Published by Green by Design on June 12, 2009

You just purchased your new electric car, and you faithfully recycle your newspapers. You are bragging to the neighbors about doing your part for the environment. But are you really living green inside your home?

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The Big Misunderstanding: Why We Don’t Need to Save the Planet

Published by Hubert Den Draak on April 02, 2009

Okay, it’s been bugging me for too long. It’s time to get this out of my system, so get ready for a rant. We’re all familiar with those catchphrases encouraging us to change the way we do certain things in order to “save the planet”, “help the environment”, or (my favorite) “because the Earth will say thank you”.

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Weaning Off the Grid

Published by Hubert Den Draak on February 17, 2009

An Average Couple’s Journey to Decrease Their Power Bills. Visitors to our Nolalu Eco Centre always marvel at our energy independence. Especially, our solar panels and small wind turbine, that provide us with all the power we need…

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The Xtreme Math on LEDs (No Worries, It’s Easy Peasy)

Published by Martha Danly on November 16, 2008

In an earlier post on lighting, LEDs—You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby, Sam Leppanen outlined the many advantages of brightening up with LEDs. This post zooms in on lighting’s total cost of ownership, so you can directly compare the tab for LED bulbs with those for Compact Fluorescents (CFLs) and incandescent bulbs.

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LEDs—You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Published by Green by Design on October 21, 2008

For decades, our choice of light bulbs has mainly come down to incandescent versus fluorescent bulbs. Even though CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lights) are making inroads, incandescents still have the lion’s share of the market, because CFLs cost more up front and, despite recent improvements, still don’t give off the natural-looking light we’ve come to expect. [...]