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• Happy Thanksgiving! Black Friday, Green Energy

  
  GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Solar & Wind Power Products — Authority: 127
  Nov 26, 2009 – Happy Thanksgiving!  How can you participate in the sales of Black Friday with Green Energy?  Buy solar lights, panels, CFLs, etc. on Black Friday and do it by shopping online so that you don’t use any gasoline.
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• EPA Announces Record One Million U.S. Energy Star Homes

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 134
  GreenEnergy.jpg It’s a significant milestone, and one unheard of as little as 15 years ago, but the news that one million American homes are now Energy-Star certified is like a breath of fresh air in a landscape dominated by reports of
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• ArmorLite Safety Coating for Compact Fluorescent Lights

  
  EnviroGadget.com — Authority: 527
  Fluorescent light bulbs seem like a great way to save on energy with lighting, right? Well yes, but there are a couple of big concerns when using them. Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) are so fragile that they often break, and when they do, it’s not just shattered glass that will hit the floor, but mercury as ...
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• Can newfangled utility bills persuade Americans to use less energy?

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 135
  Youve swapped out your old thermostats for programmable models , replaced inefficient incandescent lightbulbs with the best compact fluorescent lightbulbs , followed our advice for saving energy at home , weatherized your attic , and taken advantage of tax credits and other incentives for energy-related home ...
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• Sustainable Industries’ Top 10 Green Building Products of 2009

  
  Southern California Green Real Estate Blog — Authority: 108
  Sustainable Industries’ Top 10 Green Building Products of 2009 Edited by Jodi Summers Not to be outdone by other trends, Sustainable Industries magazine has made their choicesfor the 2009 Top 10 Green Building Products. These industry-leading green building productswinners were selected by a panel of expert judges ...
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• By the Numbers: Energy Star homes reach major milestone

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 135
  1 million Number of Energy Star-qualified homes built nationwide since the program debuted in 1995. These homes have saved Americans $1.2 billion in energy costs, reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by 22 billion pounds, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . The top 10 markets for Energy Star ...
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• Save money by replacing incandescent holiday lights with LED versions

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 135
  If your holiday lights have seen better days , you might want to replace incandescent versions with more-efficient and more-durable LED lights . Our tests of mini, C7, and C9 holiday lights showed that while incandescent versions did burn more brightly than LEDs, the LEDs were much more durable, ran cooler and ...
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• THE BULB BUBBLE SET TO BURST POCKETBOOKS

  
  The Two-Fisted Quorum — Authority: 100
  CALL IT GREENING RUN AMOK. Or, more likely, poor planning combined with petty penny pinching by a large corporation. FirstEnergy, an Ohio utility, sent two $3.50 energy-saving compact florescent light-bulbs (CFLs) to customers, and then charged them $21 for the bulbs—whether they wanted them or not. According to ...
  2 weeks ago

• You don’t need to understand this article to know you’ve been screwed again

  
  For What It's Worth — Authority: 158
  Remember when Congress banned freon to save us from the ozone hole? Turns out the replacement causes global warming [sic] so the switch is on again. result: still worse performance, still more expense and, naturally, yet another product to be banned in a few years when scientists discover what’s wrong with this one. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Paradise Cost: Hawaiis not a better place to live than West Virginia or North Dakota . . . at least when it comes to electricity prices

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 135
  Cutting down on how much electricity you use at home is a good move for your finances and the environment. Some steps to using less energy are simple, like choosing energy-efficient appliances and using and maintaining them properly—read about the U.S. Department of Energys $300 million State Energy Efficient ...
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• Simple Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Jamie Jefferson In addition to recycling, reducing one’s carbon footprint has become one of the major ways that individuals can contribute to saving the planet, but the words "carbon footprint" are often thrown around without a clear explanation. A carbon footprint is a measure of how much our day to day ...
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• Dont Forget to Fall Back!

  
  Bird on a Wire — Authority: 428
  Daylight Saving Time is ending this Saturday night. I guess the good news is that you get an extra hour to enjoy your post Trick-or-Treating candy coma. The bad news is that its going to be dark earlier and longer. Now is the perfect time to swap out those old incandescent bulbs for energy saving fluorescent ones! ...
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• F.T.C. Proposes New Light Bulb Label

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 739
  The Federal Trade Commission introduced a proposed new consumer label for light bulbs -- a product category that is generating a lot of confusion.
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• Come out of the dark

  
  Bird on a Wire — Authority: 428
  Have you swapped out all of your bulbs? Have you disposed of them properly? By replacing your four most used bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, you can save almost $110 over the lifetime of the bulbs. When they burn out, you need to either dispose of them at the Hazardous Waste facility near Shelby Farms on ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ohio Utility Ship Customers Energy-Efficient Bulbs, Plus a Huge Bill

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 664
  Call it greening run amok. Or, more likely, poor planning combined with petty penny pinching by a large corporation. FirstEnergy, an Ohio utility, sent two $3.50 energy-saving compact florescent light-bulbs (CFLs) to customers, and then charged them $21 for the bulbs — whether they wanted them or not.According to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Just a Pinch of Salt

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 522
  Heh. The editorial in the Herald today is Uptake of fluorescent bulbs salt in Labour’s wounds . The editor gleefully tells us that 80% of households now have at least one energy-efficient fluorescent lightbulb. Apparently there was no need for the ill-conceived ban on incandescent light-bulbs that Labour tried to ...
  4 weeks ago

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