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YOUR Unique Way of Reducing YOUR Carbon Footprint

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YOUR Unique Way of Reducing YOUR Carbon Footprint

Carbon footprints are a measure of the greenhouse gases released during the production, use and disposal of products and services. The production phase includes all of the processes between the times raw materials are extracted from the Earth until they reach consumers as finished products in stores. With the above definition it may seem that [...]

Kudos to WebpageFX for bringing this up…

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Kudos to WebpageFX for bringing this up…

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Economic Crisis Versus Climate Crisis

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Economic Crisis Versus Climate Crisis

The amount of global warming gases sent into the atmospher emade an unprecedented jump in 2010, according to the US Department of Energy’s latest world data on carbon dioxide emissions. Emissions from the US had dipped to 5.04 billion tonnes ofcarbon dioxide in 2009 after a high of 5.93 billion tonnes in 2006 but now [...]

Don’t Water Your Carbon Footprint

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Don’t Water Your Carbon Footprint

The world’s population has grown by 3 times in the 20th century and our consumption of water has grown six-fold. As the world population increases coupled with industrialization and urbanization, an increasing demand for water and will have serious consequences on the environment. Right now there are 1.1 billion people in the world who live [...]

Build America – Go Green, Make Money

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Build America – Go Green, Make Money

In recent years, the building sector in the US has witnessed a significant shift toward ‘greening’. In an attempt to reduce the dependency on declining resources and reduce the carbon footprint, the building industry has turned its attention to reducing energy and operating costs while trying to enhance asset value over time. From less than [...]