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energy efficient products

LivingECHO Offers your Favorite Green Products all in One Place.

February 22, 2010

When I first perused the green product shopping website LivingECHO, my first thought what a great site for one stop shopping. I could click on many different organic and sustainable products from various environmentally minded companies and buy them right from the same site. Think of an open food market place where there are all [...]

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Energy Monitors Curb Your Consumption

October 19, 2009

Brendan Gill of Plentyways contributed the following post to Green Talk about the benefit of Energy Monitors to reduce your energy consumption. I asked him to write about this topic since I, myself, grapple at which monitors to use.

The idea behind energy monitors is that you measure and graph the total amount of electricity that [...]

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Living Green Makes Cents

February 5, 2009

Photo by Tracy Olson
When people asked me what I believe in, I tell them I believe in family, friendship, and sense of self. But I also believe that living green makes sense. In fact, I believe Green makes cents.
Before you pooh-pooh me, realize being green does not mean you have to live in an extravagant green [...]

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You’ve Got Green Mail, January 18, 2009 Round-up

January 18, 2009

Photo by Henry Heatly
On this week’s You’ve Got Mail segment, I have included seven eclectic articles ranging from an amazing Solar-powered green slug to the USDA’s deregulation of an industrial genetically modified corn crop. If you would like to add a news item to this list, which can include one of your own posts, then [...]

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“You’ve Got Green Mail” January 4, 2008 Round-up

January 5, 2009

Photo by permission of Shira Gal

2009 is going to be an amazing green year. My bones can feel it and they are never wrong. In the green mail box this week is an eclectic mix of topics ranging from the old stand-by of green building articles, kiddies’ green TV to greening your business’ IT (information [...]

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You’ve Got Green Mail, Dec 7, 2008 Round-Up

December 7, 2008

Photo by Henry Heatly
Here is another I’ve Got Green Mail for the week of December 7, 2008. Just to make this concept interactive, please add any new reports or concepts that you found interesting in your own comments. You can include one of your own blog posts if you like, with a few sentences of [...]

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Twin Maples Show House Oozes Green Glam

October 8, 2008

Photo by Marisa Pellegrini of the Christopher Peacock green kitchen
Twin Maples Centennial Show House is not your typical glamorous historic show house. Like a typical woman, she is constantly evolving and reinventing herself as she grows older. She beaconed a bevy of creative and talented designers to give her a new ball gown. They, in turn, created eclectic design spaces [...]

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Twin Maples, a Historic Home Gets Gussied Up with a New Green Look

October 5, 2008

Isn’t she a Grand Dame?
During the month of October, Twin Maples Centennial Show House located in Summit, New Jersey will be open to the public sporting a new green look. This historic grande dame is the home of the Fortnightly Club of Summit and the Summit Junior Fortnightly Club. Both clubs have a long history of [...]

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PowerSave Solar and Wind Systems. Are They the Real deal?

August 15, 2008

Periodically, I receive questions on my “Ask Green Talk” section or via my Contact Form. I respond to them privately via email. The other day I had an epiphany and said, “I should be putting these questions right on the front page for my readers to answer as well.” I have a bunch of great [...]

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To Geothermal or Not, Is One Reader’s Question

January 16, 2008

The Geothermal features at Yellowstone Park. Photo by Kevin Saff by permission

I received an email from one of my readers, Ronald, who asked the following question in regards to my geothermal post. I did not want to bury his question in that post, and am giving him a separate forum on the site. Ronald lives [...]