When constructing an eco-friendly home consider using recycled building materials.
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Measuring your carbon footprint using an online calculator will give you a benchmark to measure your ever-greening lifestyle
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Greener living can start simply by dialing-back your hot water temperature setting.
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Magazines unfailingly will eventually pile up around your home, but not if they're delivered and stored electronically on your electronic tablet....
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Lower your water consumption and carbon footprint, with sensible shower techniques.
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Green Blizzard is always looking for ways that everyday consumers can make “greener” choices in their consumables.   There’s the adage of...
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One way to lower your carbon footprint and reflect some of the sun's heat back into the space is the color...
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Attic are a prime source of heat loss. Address this early and you'll lower your carbon footprint
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Buy a reusable ice coffee cup from the Starbucks online store and reduce your carbon footprint a little every day and...
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College students - smartly manage your laundry, conserve energy and lower your carbon footprint
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Some of my fondest winter memories have happened around a wood burning fire with hours spent, gazing into the flames,  roasting...
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Ever wonder what to give that special gardener in your life? Here are 10 environmentally friendly gifts for any gardener.
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Conserving water is important throughout the entire year. Here are a few ways you can save water outside the home:
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As we all know, trees are critical for reducing carbon in the atmosphere and help slow the escalating greenhouse effect. ...
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There are many reasons to compost, and though they are hard to quantify in terms of saved dollars or reduced carbon...
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If you're still buying incandescent bulbs, you are a Neanderthal. Plain and simple.
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Who knew that you could reduce your carbon footprint with an adult beverage !
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Starting a composting practice at home isn't really that time consuming or difficult - especially when you're eating fresh veggies, fruits,...
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Dates don't have to all varooom, smoke, and bright lights - all of which really drive up your carbon footprint. ...
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One of our readers, Steve Tuttle (Baltimore, Maryland) shared these observations with Green Blizzard about his experience while camping at a...
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Grass fed beef is better for the environment. Grass fed beef goes straight from the pasture to the slaughterhouse, unlike grain...
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The meat and livestock industry is one of the most destructive on earth, contributing greatly to water pollution.
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RecycleMania! February of 2001 saw the birth of the now worldwide school competition for recycling, and every year the list of...
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Everyone knows that bees are critical to our environment. So, if their numbers are declining, why do we humans continue to...
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Green Blizzard's Green App for February 2011 is the Sustainable Fish Guide.With this app, you will be more informed in your...
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Interested in the ultimate trashy non-fiction?  Then check-out a quick read, Garbage Land to really understand the day-in, day-out, year-in, year-out...
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One of the green iPhone apps that appears to have been abandoned - its dusty and lapsed in its updates.
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Did you know that a ton of paper made from recycled materials instead of virgin materials saves 7,000 gallons of water,...
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Surfing is one of the most eco-friendly sports and naturally has low carbon footprint, but the boards can be another story.
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Plastics have a huge environmental impact. Why NOT phase them out of your life now.
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Swimming pools are a great source of low carbon footprint activity. You're outdoors with your friends and family, splashing around...
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If you live in the Washington, D.C. metro area and Pepco is your electric provider, you now can opt for a...
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Is recycling really that meaningful towards reducing your carbon footprint?
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Conserving energy whenever you wash and dry your clothes is another positive step towards reducing your carbon footprint.
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Roaming through the supermarket is a everyday chore and an everyday impact to your carbon footprint. Step back and...
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Planes are the least fuel-efficient for trips under 500 miles, so consider a bus or train option, or driving instead of...
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In an age when industrialization seems synonymous with environmental havoc, aquaculture is an industry that could go green and still prosper.
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Ever consider that public parks and your lawn may actually contribute to our carbon footprint?
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Going paperless for all your household statements can eliminate tons of greenhouse gases from your carbon footprint
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Reduce your carbon footprint with competitive altruism
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Everyday purchase decisions can put you on a path to a reduced carbon footprint
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Its that time of the year, when many little-used fireplaces get called into action. Ever consider what’s going on in your...
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Flying is a cherished convenience, but what are its long term environmental impacts relative to other transportation options? Which transportation modes,...
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Using store bought fire logs instead of burning real wood is better for the environment for a number of reasons.
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Recycling benefits are sometimes real, sometimes lost in the process
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Go green and change your diet. It can significantly reduce your carbon footprint.
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If you live on a college campus or in an urban area, seriously consider a car owning alternative. When you...
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  Somewhere hidden in my marriage vows must have been a quick blurb that gave me responsibility for the perils of...
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All those recycling codes can be confusing, so here's a simple guideline.
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This handy app will be with you when you're at the market deciding which fish to buy while being environmentally conscious.
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GreenBlizzard is always suggesting ways that you can reduce the size your carbon footprint. Reduce your family's carbon footprint by...
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Many home owners and apartment dwellers have changed out a few incandescent bulbs as they burn out and replace them with...
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These gifts will help your handy-person reduce their carbon footprint but extending the life of many things in the home, ...
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Hybrids have gone well beyond the image as the car for the environmentally conscious to own. These cars are now...
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Halloween should be fun and even a little scary, but your carbon footprint doesn’t have to be hair raising.
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Who knew that our intimate apparel could impact your carbon footprint? Did you know that undergarments are the most purchased clothing...
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What's great about a cold frame is that once set up, there are no maintenance costs. If you are getting windows...
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Here's a highly recommended link to a series of short videos explaining the basic chemistry of carbon and why its become...
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Lights are required for many of our daily activities, there are many different measures your can take and cost savings actions,...
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International traveling is carbon intensive and will definitely enlarge your carbon footprint for the year- when you consider the jet fuel...
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We all have a pile of outdated, dusty, and seemingly ancient looking electronic equipment in some corner of our house or...
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Bottled water has its plus and minuses, mostly negative from a green living perspective.
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How much is enough when it comes to recycling efforts?  If you faithfully recycle household items like newspapers, bottles and cans,...
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Want to really reduce your carbon footprint for a long-long time and never have much of a heating or cooling bill...
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Green Blizzard is always looking for ideas on how we can reduce our carbon footprint and trees are one of the...
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The US paper industry hopes to recover 60% of all paper that we consume by 2012. Let’s help make that goal...
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In the past few years, students have invested in reusable coffee mugs for late night library trips - now it's your...
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Green Blizzard is always looking for new ways and ideas to help you lower your carbon footprint. Piece by piece,...
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Transportation of the raw or pre-cooked ingredients, packaging, the products themselves all enlarge your carbon footprint and your waistline.
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National Plug-In Weekend. a nationwide celebration to heighten awareness of today's widespread availability of plug-in vehicles and the benefits.
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Why the purchase of bottled water significantly enlarge your carbon footprint? Water is incredibly heavy, as you might know from...
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With this app, you can plug in where you’re going and find others in your social network who are headed in...
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Cycling is one of the simplest ways to reduce your carbon footprint and a great way to exercise.   It is increasingly...
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Some believe in the health benefits of unpasteurized (raw) milk. Others don't trust milk the companies, and some see it as...
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Corn fed beef has a significant impact on our environment. You can reduce your carbon footprint by the fork-full by...
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Instead of making your usual carbon heavy dinners, try a healthy no-cooking alternative. We call it the Cold Cooking Challenge.
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According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), approximately 30% of a home’s total indoor water use is actually accounted...
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Just the other day, I fell in love with Toshiba laptops - from a green, energy saving perspective.
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Maybe now is the time to invest a few minutes to save hundreds of pounds of unwanted paper coming through your...
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Windows are typically the more energy inefficient part of our homes and relentlessly bleed heat and coolness and waste all that...
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During the warmer and summer months, the excess heat generated by your stove or oven in the cooking process no longer...
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Home water heaters quietly consume a healthy chunk of a typical household's energy and needlessly generate a few tons of carbon...
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Kids listen to everything we say and, for better or worse, they mimic everything we do. So, it’s our responsibility to...
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Want to spice things up this Valentine’s Day, but you’re concerned that the cheesier the romance gets, the worse your environmental...
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Are fish farms really eco-friendly? Yes and No. Right now farmed fish are not the complete answer...but quickly getting there.
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A nice way to save money and reduce your carbon footprint is to boost your refrigerator’s efficiency. You can improve your...
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All the water used in our house has gone through filtration and has been pumped miles to our homes. It's...
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Germany is walking the talk and leads the way in both wind and solar installations.
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The ads brag: Eco-friendly! A truly organic experience! Clean Coal! But how much can we trust advertising? It is often tricky...
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Commercial Soap—that seeming embodiment of cleanliness—is not so clean for the environment.
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Bottled water increases your carbon footprint and is less safe than municipal water, or tap water. Bottled water oftentimes is...
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So we all know that plastic plays a significant role in our carbon footprint. So how we eliminate the most superfluous...
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Home filtered water is clearly better than the evil twin option: bottled water. With one simple change of your...
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Vote for Green Blizzard in the Annual Green Awards.
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Your purchasing dollars can lessen the environmental of the pulp and paper mills and reduce the demand for virgin paper fibers.
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