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What is Green Living? |
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What is Green Living?
Green living means different things to different people. Most agree it’s attempting to live in a eco-friendly and a environmentally responsible way while attempting to reduce the size of your ecological or carbon footprint.
Green Living touches on many topics including:
· Conservation is the management of our resources of which there are two types.
o Renewable resources such as; forests, water, farmland and grazing land.
o Nonrenewable resources such as; coal, natural gas and oil.
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Planting Trees To Save Energy |
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 It is hard to believe that you can save energy by planting trees in your landscape, but it is true. That energy saved can also save you money.
I see a lot of new subdivisions being built in open fields with no trees around. This leaves it open to bake in the sun, which can be good in the winter when you need that heat, but not good in the summer when your air conditioner has to work harder. This can be changed by planting deciduous trees on the south, east, and west sides of our house. The leaves of these trees will shade your house in the summer, keeping it cooler. Your air conditioner will not have to work as hard, by starting with a cooler home. Consider shading your air conditioning unit also as this can increase their efficiency by up to 10 percent. During the winter deciduous trees loose their leaves, there by letting the sunlight through to help warm the home. |
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Researcher: Discovery could end energy crisis |
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Researcher: Discovery could end energy crisis
By Jana Cone/reporter
TIFTON — Published March 15, 2008 09:54 pm in the Tifton Gazette Link to original article A Tifton agricultural researcher says he has found the solution to the world’s energy crisis through genetic modification and cloning of bacterial organisms that can convert bio-mass into hydrocarbons on a grand scale. The local researcher believes his groundbreaking discovery could result in the production of 500 to 1,000 barrels of hydrocarbon fuel per day from the initial production facility. The hydrocarbon fuel — commonly known as oil or fossil fuel when drilled — will require no modification to automobiles, oil pipelines or refineries as they exist today and could forever end the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, he said. |
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With the economy in the shape it is, everyone is trying to cut back and save money in every way they can.