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Wind turbine conjures up the image of three-rotor design on hill-tops and, increasingly, out to sea. These machines work well in high wind speeds and relatively smooth airflows: the technology matches the conditions where they are sited. The remoteness of these locations has allowed ever larger turbines to be built, generating significant amounts of electricity.
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| Many charities and non-profits are focused to help the people of developing nations while others strive to provide economic empowerment and help poor entrepreneurs establish sustainable businesses; but a Canadian shoe company is taking a different approach by sourcing and setting up its manufacturing operations in Africa instead.
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| An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers. Also called webzines or Ezines (also spelled e-zines), they are small magazines and newsletters distributed by any electronic method, for example, by electronic mail (e-mail/email).
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| You spend way too much money on jeans to just throw them away after they are outgrown or stained or too old. An online search found hundreds of ways to recycle them, from creating purses and pillows to coasters and belt holders. people just love their old jeans and hate to see them disappear into a landfill.
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| Our gadgets will eventually break or get replaced. But it's hard to know just what to do with the gadgets that get left behind. Some people stuff them in junk drawers. Most people won't simply junk their car -- they'd trade it in. Why can't that same school of thought apply to electronics?
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| Eco houses are not the norm yet, but green-minded consumers have increasing options for making one their own. A German company has come up with a modular design based on Lego-style blocks that consumers can put together themselves.
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| Dreaming of a family vacation and some time out? Think that it's going to be too expensive to take one this year with the economy going downhill? Well, you needn't rule out getting away this year, you may just need to change the plans a little. Rather than flying to the other side of the country or overseas it's time to enjoy the things closer to home and save some serious money.
Impressions:156
| Heating hot water can be 40% of your energy use. Your A/C unit makes excess heat in the process of cooling your home. Why use energy twice, if you can reuse it? Now there's an environmentally friendly way to generate hot water by capturing the wasted heat from a central air conditioning or refrigeration system.
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| Conceptually, swimming pools are pretty simple -- they're just big basins of water, but there is a lot of technology and chemicals at work in your average pool -- much more than you might expect. They use a combination of filtration and chemical treatment to continually clean a large volume of water. Some of this stuff might be harmful to you and the environment.
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| Hundreds of thousands of tons of watermelons are lost every year. They are grown and then left in the ground because of superficial imperfections. About 20% of each annual crop is left in the field because of surface blemishes or because they are misshapen; currently these are lost to growers as a source of revenue. Due to imperfections, bad spots, or weird shapes, these watermelons are left in the field and then ploughed right back into the ground.
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| Plastics are a valuable natural resource. They are derived from fossil fuels and are created at substantial energetic and environmental cost. And yet we have come to treat plastic as the ultimate throw-away consumer commodity - using them in an all-pervasive multitude of short-term applications.
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| What happens to the millions of tons of discarded materials from obsolete infrastructures like Boston’s Big Dig? Destroying it costs millions to tax payers as well as wastes the embodied energy already stored in the materials. Dismantled and relocated, concrete and steel sections can become structural building modules adaptable to a variety of sites and programs.
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| As many incentives as there are for consumers to go green these days, 'hot girls' strikes us as fairly novel. A new eco-site called Angry Green Girl is celebrating its launch with a car wash featuring five models sporting teeny green bikinis, who'll sud up eco-friendly cars for free using waterless cleaners. The site will provide earth saving tips, product reviews, home makeovers and green networking.
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