It’s starting to feel a lot like winter. With cooler days and nights approaching, now is the best time to prepare your home for colder months. By taking a few steps to winterize your home ahead of time, you’ll be able to keep your energy bills lower and your house cozy and warm all season [...]

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The national electrical grid is the single largest producer of greenhouse gas. As such, by reducing your use of electricity from the grid, you are reducing your personal carbon footprint. New, small residential wind turbines or wind generators are making this an easy process for the home owner.
Homemade power usually comes from one of [...]

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Suniva, an Atlanta-based startup, has recently developed solar cells that can achieve 20 percent efficiency. Unlike other high-efficiency cells, Suniva is using low-cost processes that will make their solar cells cost-competitive with conventional sources of electricity.
Suniva uses a combination of superior cell design and screen-printing technology to achieve its solar cell efficiency.
According to Ajeet Rohatgi, [...]

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Interesting article from InsWeb looking at how viable purchasing a hybrid vehicle over a conventional gas guzzling car.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past half decade, chances are you already know that hybrids are the hottest vehicles on the road. They promise to keep emissions low and wallets fat, and with some [...]

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Every so often you find a really useful gadget that does a little bit to helping you save energy and money. This interesting little Gas Energy Saving Device helps your gas cooker to burn gas more efficiently. At the heart of the device is a catalytic alloy disc that heats up to 100 degrees centigrade. [...]

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‘That dig-and-delve experience’ … rummaging through the clothes rail at a charity shop. Photograph: Rex features

Last week, the House of Lords science committee criticised a culture of fast fashion for contributing to the growing amount of domestic waste in Britain. Textiles make up 3% of the 30m tonnes of waste collected from households by local [...]

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This week at ZapRoot,

1. China’s cheap gas leads to more SUV sales
2. Find out where to take a walk in your neighborhood
3. Make your office sustainable with People Cube

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EcoGeek asks the question, whre are all the cheap electric cars? they say

I see this question in my inbox or in comments several times per week. The asker generally proposes one of several possibilities. These range oil-company assassinations to esoteric problems with the car’s transmissions.
Fortunately for everyone, it’s neither as exciting as assassination or as [...]

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Ecotalk’s guide to saving energy, Because we all contribute to global warming, be co-dependent no more:
1st Step: Admit you are powerless over your addiction to using energy and that your high energy use has become unmanageable, and then change 10 light bulbs in your house to compact florescent bulbs. Taking this first step saves [...]

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It has been called the holy grail of the modern era – cheap solar energy. And scientists say it may be within our grasp soon. A Queensland University team has grown the world’s first titanium oxide nano crystals that are likely to revolutionise the way solar energy is harvested and used.
Creating these highly efficient miniature [...]

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