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How to Build an Eco-Friendly Home

The Environmental Blog

An eco-friendly house is designed with recycled materials, renewable energy sources, and sustainable landscapes. To gather and store solar energy, you need to install solar panels, which convert sunlight into energy that creates a source of electricity. Most conventional building materials contain harmful toxins.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

a global leader in metals recycling, is a steel manufacturing facility that turns recycled metal into high quality finished steel products such as rebar, coiled rebar, merchant bar and wire rod. Cascade Steel’s electric arc furnace (EAF) is more energy efficient and environmentally-friendly than traditional blast furnaces.