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Renovations and Improvements for Sustainable Homes

Green Business Bureau

The buildup of dust can weaken HVAC system efficiency, causing it to work harder and use more energy to heat or cool your home. This constant strain puts your HVAC system at higher risk of breaking down and needing repair. Check for HVAC Leaks. Many HVAC systems contain a system of ducts that require regular maintenance.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2021

Greentown Labs

Twenty-six startups joined our community in Q2 2021, working on innovations as diverse as kinetic wave energy, soil carbon measurement, efficient wind turbine installation, and electric, uncrewed surface vehicles. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Agtech + water. Transportation.

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Improve the Air Quality in Your Office With These 5 Plants

Green Business Bureau

We often use lighting, ergonomic office furniture, and organization as tools to enhance our workspaces. They can remove several harmful compounds from the air and break them down into their soil. Change your filters regularly and have your HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems) regularly maintained.

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Dry Cleaning Sustainability: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Be released into the air, and contribute to smog and can react with other volatile organic carbon substances. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers.

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Building Sustainability Checklist: 28 Tips to Make Your Building More Eco-Friendly.

Green Business Bureau

Tip # 7: Use non Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) paint – VOC paints contain harmful chemicals that vaporize at room temperature and enter the atmosphere impacting the ozone layer and human health. VOC-free paints help reduce toxins that cause health and environmental implications, are easier to clean, and have less odor. .

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Sustainable Dry Cleaners: Getting Started Guide

Green Business Bureau

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Be released into the air, and contribute to smog and can react with other volatile organic carbon substances. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers.

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Sustainability Marketing: How To Reach Three Kinds of Customers Of Green Products and Services

Green Business Bureau

Poor neighborhoods have a right to local, healthy, organic food.”. “50 They might recycle and buy organic, but haven’t scrutinized their own lifestyles much. Enjoy fresh veggies from our organic greenhouse all winter. Forget HVAC headaches—the earth-friendly ventilation system has no moving parts to break down.”. “50-year