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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. Cascade Steel’s electric arc furnace (EAF) is more energy efficient and environmentally-friendly than traditional blast furnaces. Insulation is one of the most important factors that play into your home’s energy efficiency.

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Why massive Saharan dust plumes are blowing into the US

Grist

Tropical storms derive their energy from wet air. But if you have the opposite situation set up, where you have the warm water above cool water, then it’s what we call a stable situation — there’s no mixing that happens,” says Miller. Graham Carlos of the Indiana University School of Medicine and Eskenazi Health. “We

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Cumming Corporation Los Angeles, CA, USA Shorenstein Realty Services (‘15). As an Assistant Project Manager, Trevor Anderson supports his Energy and Sustainability team and their clients on a variety of sustainability consulting services. Ian Champ. (He/Him/His)