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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. When constructed properly, it can help lessen pollution and allow you to enjoy savings on water and energy usage, and it can increase the value of your home. Buy Energy-Saving Appliances.

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Effective Ways to Be More Eco-Friendly

The Environmental Blog

Install a smart meter. Home heating systems and boilers are among the biggest consumers of energy. You can regulate your energy consumption by installing a smart meter in your home. You can set it to heat the house before coming home from work or turn it on just before waking up on a cold winter morning.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECYCLED STEEL.

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Repairing an off-grid wind and solar electrical system

Low Impact

We recently blogged about a project : ‘rebuilding a home, and changing the surrounding fields from dead agricultural land into an oasis of natural life’ – as well as building an off-grid electrical and heating system. This is basically putting a multi-meter set on DC 10 amps directly across the output of the panels.

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Sustainability Guide for Plumbers: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

Poor materials can prove to be dangerous to the health of those within the home. Poor materials are inefficient, wasting both water and energy. Certain materials are difficult to dispose of and cannot be reused. Promote water saving appliances at home. Recycle old pipes and appliances.

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Technology Trending: gamifying CO2 saving, acoustic core heat pumps, body energy harvesting

Smart Energy International

An app gamifying the climate journey, hi-fi speakers powering heat pumps and the human body as an antenna to harvest energy are in the week’s technology radar. On the app, users start their ‘climate journey’ with an interactive video that helps them to create a personal energy profile. Human body energy harvesting.

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10 Ways to Reduce Unnecessary Paper Use

Green Living Guy

Paper is touted as an inexpensive and renewable resource, but it isn’t the conveniently recyclable material it’s been made out to be. While paper recycling is far more successful than plastics and other materials, paper generation and usage is still hugely environmentally problematic.