Green Living Ideas

Natural Beauty: Homemade Honey Mask for Problem Skin

If you suffer from skin problems, you have probably spent a lot of money trying different products, both natural and chemical, that promise relief. Whether you complexion problems are mild and occasional or more severe acne, there’s a simple solution in your kitchen pantry. Honey! Honey has amazing properties that make it perfect for the sensitive [...]

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Home Wind Power for Half the Price, Over the Counter

For commercial renewable energy enthusiasts, there’s no shortage of eye candy among industrial sized wind installations, but for the homeowner, the closest they get to feeling like they’re really generating clean energy might be the ‘Powered by the Wind’ sticker they get from their local utility when purchasing the wind power option for electricity. But [...]

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EPA Win: Kansas Coal Power Plant Must Install $500 Million Pollution Scrubber

In a case begun immediately after the Obama administration took office – under New Source Review rules that have not been enforced for over a decade, a Kansas coal power company has just settled with the newly activist EPA led by Lisa Jackson. Under the settlement, Westar Energy has agreed to pay a [...]

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Ethanol Industry Sues California

The Federal government is asking the fuel industry to incrementally raise the levels of ethanol in the country’s gas. California has state legislation called the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 calling for car fuels to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The California Air Resources Board counts indirect GHG’s created in the production of [...]

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Engineered Virus Causes Tobacco Plants to Grow Solar Cells

Tobacco, once the glory crop of the South Atlantic region of the United States, has fallen in stature as health problems associated with smoking the plant have come to light. Now tobacco may be able to redeem itself by producing solar cells, according to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley. By infecting tobacco [...]

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Carrot & Stick Policy is Driving Clean Energy Development

One of the many under-appreciated bits of green legislation that Democrats snuck into the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was that electric utilities (as well as businesses and homeowners) could also get a 30% tax credit if they invest in renewable energy. This electric utility eligibility for [...]

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$1.45 million QinetiQ Research on Remote Environmental Sensors

Measuring and monitoring environmental impact is a continuing challenge. I’m seeing new tools and attitudes that will enable nations and corporations do a better job of monitoring and, hopefully, reducing emissions and impact- from Google Earth’s aggregation of satellite data to track forest size to energy efficient office buildings. A new tool called The Sensor Web [...]

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Urban Lawns Contribute to Climate Change

There’s a movement to green urban spaces. From seed bombs to guerrilla gardening, vigilantes are taking the green movement to a new level changing the concrete jungle landscape. In fact, studies have proven that inner city children that grow up in green neighborhoods are healthier, but do green lawns really benefit our health and planet? [...]

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