In the market for new furniture for your home office — or any other part of the house?
Consider green furniture! Prices are coming down every day as more and more consumers demand furniture made from sustainable safe materials.
What is so bad about traditional furniture?
Even the name brand stores typically sell book shelves made from medium-density [...]

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Greening Your Home Work Place
One advantage of working from home is the ability to make your own decisions about greening your work place. If you are fortunate enough to work from home, be skeptical of carpets.
Carpets may look nice but they trap lots of nasty things like dust, mold and phthalate particles. Furthermore, [...]

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Consider Making Your Next Car a Hybrid
Hybrid cars (but not SUVs) use about half as much gas as conventional cars — a big savings to consumers in the current era of wildly fluctuating gas prices. Even after factoring in the higher upfront cost of a hybrid (typically around $4,000), these cars will save their [...]

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Can you bike or walk instead of driving once in a while?
If you live in the suburbs like I do, you most likely get in the car to run errands without even thinking of other options. Lately, I’ve been making an effort to walk more. I have children who bug me several times a [...]

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According to the EPA, Indoor Air is often more polluted than outdoor air.
Most people are unaware of this simple fact. Most would believe the reverse to be true. However, within the last decades, the medical and scientific communities have begun recognizing the dangers posed by indoor air pollution.
One of the main causes of indoor air [...]

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