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Standard Green Construction

What is a green building really? There are many employees who are jumping on the bandwagon to express “green” movement, using the same products they use “is not green.” I remember when food producers are so says that organic products, organic products for diesel used to power tractors.

Experts agree that the green standard consists of three major titles.

Include low energy consumption, ie the part of the house is so green, or CAFE standards in the automotive industry, such as low average energy use in industry, mining, refining, transportation, etc. (The second aspect is that the energy equivalent of CO2)
Much of the components of sustainable development papercrete bales of straw, the tire structure are good examples because they use recycled, remanufactured, or waste. Adobe, rammed earth and cob compressed and protected is an excellent example of environmental non-intrusive, sustainable construction, as well.
low energy, sufficient thermal mass insulation or solar orientation and design, efficient heating and cooling systems of many other criteria.

It is important to understand that energy efficiency will not suffice to meet green building. Like a growing deficit of the state, including higher energy and stamina, or can be replaced with low energy, as the saying goes “you can not do it in the amount of loss. ”

Products such as brick, concrete, steel, wood and designed for high energy and includes the energy spent, if used sparingly in the deficit so large that can not be returned.

Another important aspect is the reuse of products at the end of his life. ” Steel has been very good for reuse and recycling capacity is special. How polystyrene, ‘No, I think you can grind and mix the cement, is Rastra is. Then you can confirm 3 or 4 tons of steel rod is then applied to 10 or 15 for a distance of concrete. all the concrete slab and some of the concrete roof. All steel reinforced. not green

I even questioned my straw when the cement plaster and concrete, by the way is very high energy included in the straw, not to mention the damage caused by the disposal of the country, and reinvestment in the soil . Whereas it used to replenish and membrane transport to keep it dry. There is no structure more as a living-and high consumption of wood or timber frame, straw bales is not a burden. But it is time for energy costs high and low performance. (This is my opinion that the construction of straw, is not green, despite what many sites claim. It is true that the construction of straw, are the aforementioned problems, but the green is always the issue of sustainability as a life marginal structure.)

Papercrete? The use of recycled newsprint, a small amount of sand and Portland, no resistance to pests and mortar alternative manual stack papercrete green home builder. It was pretty tiring process, but not as extreme as Adobe or crashed on the ground or the tires used in construction.

Used tires? I also take this approach emphasizes the shared practices owner builder pantheon of green building. In addition, crashed in the country or the CEB and walls, and solar orientation and the exclusion of the concrete slab and the foundation is a wonderful system may continue for hundreds of years, what best use of the product, which is the management of life “is designed. This is a very labor-intensive system, and even if it is not practical construction is not simply because attention. According to the low end or very expensive.

Logs. It was difficult, the logs are processed easier to install, or hollow. They burn well, but they are quite long term, when people are not building them in the woods, where they are readily available in a large wood fire, it would be wiser. Although the roof height is designed to use less glass, they may even have more energy. It is also reasonable opposition to the sustainability of the UN criteria Timberland intensive home is not green.

Adobe, more than 12 “walls, and preferably 14” or larger, and there may be limitations of design that should be green. It is not always cost structure, and Adobe engineers will be increasingly using wood or wood frame, and lots of wood and designed with a high intake of concrete. returned to the issue of energy is raising its head, making it a good, but expensive (because of the problem) instead of the solution.

Packed in Earth Block, Adobe is more difficult, it may take much longer and has more cob buildings 500 years

incorporated into energy? CEBS to replace most of the concrete on site, and the machine can be built hundreds if not thousands, of homes, so that the distribution of the energy contained in the machine. Long life and durability of Mother Nature also reduces the energy in the gaps over time.
Sustainable? The use of the land, which is generally acceptable for both blocks of the CEB little or no change in CEB at home, except in a soft and warm feeling, but most environmentally non-intrusive.
energy efficiency? Home CEB can literally lose the most heat and cooling is planned properly and appropriate for the direction of the sun.

Pretty Green do you agree?

Green Bathroom

Posted on May 31,May 31, by gogreen

Bathroom renovation? Want to go green? Here is a list of materials that can be used to upgrade an old bathroom to a new healthier and more environmentally friendly space.

Floor

Concrete

Is this the thermal mass (ie, it collects heat during the day, and let the cool hours to save energy bills)
This is done by almost every state (and local)
coal fly ash receiver
It is lengthy and requires
Painted and / or stained

Lino

Made from natural products (eg linseed oil)
To a long life (almost 30 years)
It is virtually maintenance free
Come to a variety of color options

Wood,

You can buy restore teak or other wood resistant to water (make sure the sand and impress them as well)

Walls

Non-toxic, no VOC-free paint

Almost every company now offers paint is VOC (volatile organic compounds, toxins in the air as a gas) line of the color mark

Plato

Recycled glass or ceramic tile

Many companies have taken a number of its brands, made from recycled materials

Countertops

IceStone cons

Mixture of 100% recycled glass and concrete
Become a variety of colors
Made in Brooklyn

Paper Stone countertops

Made from recycled paper and non-toxic resins (to make more environmentally friendly, and exhaust)
Become a variety of colors
Extremely durable

Concrete

The same advantages that the soil class
Can an integrated sink

Lighting

CFL

Cheap
A long life / low energy bills

LED

The high cost
Extra long life

Or Sun Tunnel Skylight

Take advantage of natural light during the day, so you do not need to turn off the lights in bathroom

Plumbing

Dual flush / low flush toilets

Find toilet 1.6 gallons or less
Find two buttons flush toilet, for number one, two, and a

Low-flow faucet

Install on top of the sink faucet aerators to save water, see 1.5 GPM

low-flow shower

Search for a shower, which is 1.75 gpm or less

Housing

cabinets using FSC certified wood

FSC certified wood: the wood comes from sustainably managed forests

Use wood,

Use the old barn wood peeling paint to create a rustic look cool

Re for furniture

Find an old dresser and the Persian Gulf contractor and plumber to make you a vanity

Build Your Home Green

Posted on May 27,May 27, by gogreen

Practical homes are healthier, more sturdy, more vigor-effective, more convenient, and their foot shaped impression on nature’s turf is more diminutive than accepted homes.

Here are some green nuts and bolts suggestions for manageable constructing:

Modest-might be delightful and snug. Great houses for the most part utilize an immense product of power to hotness and cool. This power claims roots in the ignition of fills, exhausting the aforementioned assets and emanating nursery gases and pollutants into the atmosphere. The more vast the house, the more materials go into its project; materials which have their particular natural results. A home ought to be simply the right size for its tenants. The key to this is exceptional organization,efficient utilize of space and keeping belonging to a reasonable level.

Warming with the Sun and Cooling inactively

There is nothing more easy for form and brain than living in a great solar-warmed house. latent solar outline will give simply the right measure of daylight into the rooms to be retained by the surrounding thermal mass. Hence, the hotness should be given once again into the rooms when the sun goes down. A legitimate outline is critical to the solace of quite a house. The thermal mass is a sort of “high temperature electric cell” that stores the warmth, retaining it to keep the room from getting too smoking around the same time as the day. As imperative to thermal mass is protection (for example squashed volcanic shake or straw bundles) that will keep that high temperature inside. The last solar objective will utilize the materials in the right situations, mixing utilitarian objective with thermal elements.

It’s Cool

In an overall planned solar house the temperature has a tendency to stay equitably even. its warm when you need it and cool when you need it;. An exceptional strategy to keep coolness in the house is to delve into the earth. Not something greater than 2 meters under the earth, you will spot that the temperature changes by just a few degrees year-adjust. you are able to utilize the stability of the earth’s temperature keep your house decent and cool year-adjust.

Nearby Materials

Nature has furnished us with some eminent materials to construct with. The earthy and monetary expenses are easy Because the proposed materials need small transforming or transporting. Some are renewable assets prefer straw and trees and some are inexhaustible, very nearly boundless like sand and shakes. The wonderful thing about fabricating with neighborhood materials is that they appear to fit indigenously with the sensation of the place.

Imparting Facilities through Intentional Communities

Share what you need to others is a fundamental tenet of supportability. by doing so we would be able to decrease the require for unnecessary duplication of offices. In this way a bunch of folks can have less apparatuses, instruments or practical regions, and profits both nature’s domain and the individual.

Developing your particular Food

Living right around green plants, is a perfect joy, particularly when they are palatable., It is effortless to see why individuals ended up appended to their appended nurseries.

Reuse Materials

It’s sport, fulfilling, and practical to reuse old manufacturing materials. In the western publicly accepted norms ‘utilized’ has a stigma. We esteem ‘late’ most importantly else, we accept the announcing drives that case that utilized is flat or regretful. A fantastic put to search for such stuff is the nearby dump on the grounds that it is frequently discerned as valueless. The nearby dump in reality has a range set aside for possibly reusable articles, and they urge individuals to sort through it.

Renewable Energy

Utilizing the sun, water or wind, to process power are near a significant number of approaches to ration the utilization of fossil fuel; Whether we are getting our power from elective origins or from the lattice, it pays to decide on life-proficient machines. Front-stacking attire washers, for example, utilize considerably less power, water and cleanser than the top-loaders.

Save Water

It is plausible to get by actually fine on one tenth of the measure of water we utilize today in the west. Stream confinements at shower heads ‘the utilization of level water limit toilets are honestly normal now. More radical protection goes at incorporate redirecting faded water from soaking, garments washing and bathroom sinks to watering plants; getting rain water from tops and cleared regions for household utilize and switching to composting toilets. The proposed might be truly efficacious and safe mean

Construct to Last

Strength is a prime part of livable building design. it could be a waste of a great deal of exemplified vigor if an assembling doesn’t keep going for an extended time, from both the asset and the human point of view. Its a matter of awareness, that would be all it brings for raising to final; we should esteem old construction modeling. A considerable number of times makers will do terrible work or settle on abject decisions of project materials create it quite just should final a few decades, and after that it could be torn down, making space for the omnipotent NEW.

There are countless alternate angles and plans to investigate about feasible fabricating, its fundamentally adapting the method of intuition and acting.

Practical Tips for a Green Energy Efficient Home

Posted on May 27,May 27, by gogreen

I worked in the lodging industry for numerous years and saw some revamped ‘green force’ advancements going in. Our clients consistently would have liked to know more about the aforementioned revamped mechanics and were regularly all too available to begin spending a terrific bargain of coin on the most recent units. In all their fervor they had a tendency to disregard (or actually didn’t know) the fundamentals of vigor effectiveness. In this piece we’ll get a load of some of the proposed essentials and check out what’s fiscally proficient in the field of life proficiency. This is a field where confusions can wind up being quite unreasonable.

I Want That and That and Those…

Actually regularly, before we’d even got to the subject of the house configuration or even the house plot, the client could declare something like, “We’re determined to be commissioning a ground-origin high temperature pump”. OK, ground-origin high temperature pumps (GSHPs) might be quite effective when genuinely matched up with every last trace of the alternate units needed to make it work accurately. Be that as it may in what capacity would you be able to perhaps choose that you require a GSHP without all the more knowing if the ground states of the plot are suitable? This is a prime case of a client having caught a fabulous bargains pitch at an exchange indicate and speculation it could fulfil all their green vigor goals. At that stage I wanted to express to them, “Have you pondered protection?”

Cover, Insulate

There is no focus in putting a special and unreasonable warming framework into a home unless the envelope of the fabricating is fittingly protected, elsewise that hard-won ‘green power’ can be wasted. In a genuinely encased home the force necessity is kept to a least. There are countless gameplans to cover and the ‘greener’ routines have a tendency to be more unmanageable. At the same time recall that not wasting vigor is a ‘green’ strategy to carry on, so even if the separation material is not inalienably ‘green’ the manufacturing itself can still be. Sheep’s downy, for instance, is an exceptional separator and its ecologically amicable, but its additionally truly exorbitant. Inflexible urethane sort encasing shows up, on the appearance of it, to be an absolutely ‘non-green’ answer but its proficient, its moderately modest and its not set up to be lying around dirtying the earth whenever soon on account of it could be securely held within the dividers of your house.

Fabricate Tight, Ventilate Right

We utilized some Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) in my Company. SIPs have an inflexible urethane center betwixt a few layers of OSB (Oriented Strand Board). One of the explanations I preferred them was that, by the nature of the method they are associated as a single unit, they frame a tightly fixed assembling envelope. At the same time you need to have the ability to breathe in your home, right? Yes, obviously. And then the right approach to raise a house with an enjoyable and decently ventilated inner nature is to control the ventilation. I doesn’t bode well to have the house ventilated in a haphazard course through changing little crevices in the envelope. Raise it tight and seal it decently then put in a regulated ventilation framework, either animated or uninvolved, to bargain with that side of things. That way you won’t be wasting force through uncontrolled hotness misfortune.

Warming Systems

We’ve exchanged ideas about some of the essentials above, so now we are able to begin to speak about warming frameworks. Today there is an incomprehensible exhibit of diverse warming fixes ready. Warming frameworks are, generally, reasonably effortless. You hold the high temperature root (the part that is producing the high temperature e.g. an electric kettle, robust fuel stove or hotness recuperation framework) and you hold the emitter(s) (the part that emanates the high temperature e.g. radiators, underfloor warming pipes and whatnot). Some frameworks in addition have a conspicuous gatherer e.g. a GSHP which picks up the idle hotness in the ground via an exceptional circle covered on your plot. We utilized a considerable measure of great frameworks where the ventilation and hotness root were managed within the same unit. A ‘fumes atmosphere’ high temperature pump is a case of this. This sort of hotness pump sucks up warm soggy breeze from zones like bathrooms, separates the dampness and utilizes the recovered high temperature to support in warming the water for taps (spigots) and radiators.

In the event that you have fittingly isolated your home then you’ll have the capacity to make the most powerful and green utilize of whatever warming framework you are utilizing. In the event that you hold a more advanced in years home with a truly wasteful warming framework you might wish to swap it out for something greener. I like electric frameworks: they’re unadulterated, economical to commission and don’t require a stack of channels running all over to work.

Solar Power

Once you have a genuinely separated and ventilated raising there are green ways of supplementing the fundamental life productivity. Since you possess the atmosphere for it solar boards make a ton of sense. The proposed go in distinctive frames but the most straightforward ones work by utilizing the sun’s power to hotness water in a framework of funnels (held in boards) on your top. This is simply a different sort of authority. This sort of solar warming is as a rule consolidated with your essential high temperature cause to supplement it, implication that the sizzling water for your fixtures and emitters needs less life enter from your principle high temperature origin to get it like a champ to the needed temperature. Alternate photovoltaic (PV) sorts in fact change over solar force into power, but the aforementioned frameworks will for the most part be more costly.

Solar power is a fabulous gameplan to produce your home ‘greener’ since its utilizing a unhindered, clean asset: the hotness of the sun. In any case recall that the proposed frameworks might be unmanageable and it will take a step back to save your cash back depending on if you have paid a parcel to purchase and commission the framework.

Green Living

A hefty portion of us seek to exist ‘greener’ exists today. You could probably precipitate an improvement by attempting to verify that you are not wasting valuable force in your home. Attempt to get your necessities right by managing with the huge issues first: cover your home decently, instate an effective warming framework then supplement it with clean and green life causes. You would not be able to recovery the planet but you’ll have the fulfillment of knowing that you’ve done something. Then again, assuming that you do it decently, you’ll recovery yourself money as well.

Recycling and Facilities Management

Posted on May 27,May 27, by gogreen

Do you claim a flat or rental property? Are exorbitant waste evacuation expenses cutting into your primary concern? Do you believe that it is highly unlikely around it? Well figure what, you do have different alternatives. How, you ask?

What about beginning a reusing project that will redirect waste from your waste stream as well as our landfills? This might be less demanding and more gainful to your office than you suspect! Most waste haulers are paid come what may they need to come and dump your substantial concentrated waste accumulation receptacle. Every last time that trash receptacle ends up being full you have get your waste hauler to come and purge it. Most offices need to purge their rubbish holder regardless once a week. What assuming that you just had to purge it once each several weeks? You could recovery part of your waste evacuation expenses!

By what means would you be able to do this? Most drastically recyclable materials are not just regretful for the earth but they take up a considerable measure of space. What amount of the space that a plastic contain takes is in fact air? A LOT! Consider when you have 100 plastic containers, the wasted space builds incredibly, a large portion of which is simply atmosphere! It can get absolutely immoderate in the event that you keep on to pay your waste hauler to come and dump atmosphere.

Unlike waste haulers, communities who pick up your reusing are in reality something greater than probable to pay you to take reusing without end. They will break it down into reusable material and get paid by groups who would like to utilize reusable plastic or paper items. Unequivocally suppose, provided that you had value, strong, & simple-to-utilize reusing containers for every of your occupants, your reusing support will build incredibly. What does this mean for you? More $$$$ on your primary concern.

Following hearing that, do you suspect it can totally get any preferable? Well it can! Your office can now utilize the green go at to advertising and offering your utilities. What in the event that you were to furnish your inhabitants with movable, stackable reusing compartments with a humble enough foot shaped impression to be utilized in any size complex? Not just will you be creating less waste (and in this way safeguarding coin), you will mark yourself as an ecologically dependable business.

In the event that you were a home or pad inhabitant and you were searching for your following place to exist, could you decide on the typical expected room complex, or the one down the avenue administered by an ensemble which is naturally amicable and reuses?

How To Green Clean Your House

Posted on May 27,May 27, by gogreen

One of the prevailing issues that the naturally benevolent detachment challenge is the unwillingness of the all inclusive open to update their inefficient methods. At the same time attempting to negotiate with large international companies are often similar to banging your head against a wall collective eco-warrior reasonably expect the public to make simple changes to reduce your carbon footprints. Probably the situation is that sure activists looked for too much. With billions of individuals around the globe utilized to power, it isn’t conceivable that there should be wholesale updates to solar capacity for instance. Nonetheless, being green does begin at home, specifically when it approaches cleaning it.

Toxic Cleaners

An amazing number of people are unconscious of the harm created by general cleaning items. Yet a quick look at articles for example broiler washing specialists and polishes will disclose the expressions ‘toxic’ and ‘risk’. When you utilize these items, a humble measure of hurtful chemicals are discharged and swiftly addition a solid footing in the home. In the event that you fall flat to open the windows, your clan might be at hazard. In the event that you do let breeze into the room, the chemicals in the room disseminate, creating ecological harm outside as a substitute.

Construct Your Own

To green clean your home, bring all cleaning units with the aforementioned warnings and dispose of them. Swap with biodegradable and non-toxic substitutes. Most mark names have made brand new, naturally neighborly items. In the event that you’re positively conferred, it is feasible to make your particular cleaning units utilizing green elements. One of the most well known of the proposed custom made cleansing specialists is heating soda. This moving less dirty has the capability to brightly clean surfaces while evacuating smells created by chemicals.

An additional choice is washing soda, generally reputed to be sodium carbonate. This is fit to sliced through oil and wax and discharges no exhaust. Those utilizing washing soda do should wear gloves be that as it may as it is scathing and can blaze uncovered skin. Ever perceive how each business more flawless goes in lemon? Why not utilize the genuine article alternately? Lemon squeeze is greatly acidic and can evacuate earth from wooden surfaces. Indispensable oils for example lavender and tea tree oil have sterile values. You would be able to utilize the aforementioned rather than hurtful compound-ridden cleansers to murder microorganisms.

The Three R’s

The expression ‘decrease, reuse and reuse’ has since a long time ago been viewed as a banality but it is a useful triumvirate for green cleaning your house. Diminishing the product of unnecessary articles in the home parallels less cleaning time. This connotes fewer chemicals being utilized. Once you have performed your spring cleaning, require some investment to check out the articles you expect to dispose of. Consider approaches to utilize some of your old belonging and reuse the rest. Head over to the ordinary reusing areas and show your daily papers, glass and alternate recyclable articles you no longer need. Look at electronics retailers as they could in addition have uncommon reusing systems. At last, guarantee that electric cells and comparable articles which cannot be reused are discarded in the right way.

It is not vital to spend a minor fortune on photovoltaic boards or develop 90% of your particular nourishment to be green. Make effortless updates to the chemicals you utilize when cleaning your home and reuse overabundance waste whenever conceivable. It would appear similar to a pointless practice but if most living breathing souls agrees and comes to be more green in simply restricted, a more fantastic departure than you would be able to ever envision would be able to happen. As Mahatma Ghandi once stated: “You should be the update you wish to see in the planet.”

Green Technology: Changing People’s Lives Forever

Posted on May 25,May 25, by gogreen

Green innovation is adapting individuals exists by the moment. First and foremost of all you might be asking what is green innovation. The field of “green innovation” incorporates a persistently developing bunch of strategies and materials, from methods for creating life to non-toxic cleaning items. Green innovation units are remarkably remarkable and urging. They give instantaneous consequences and virtually are generally enriching. They center on fathoming, but not constrained to, four of our most regular situations in folks homes today.

1. Indoor Atmosphere Contamination-The power emergency of the 70’s carried the indoor breeze emergency of the 90’s and today. Now, concentrates on show that the atmosphere within your home would be five times additional contaminated than the breeze outside your home.

2. Force Emergency-The time is now, to encounter the realities. Life prices are on the ascent, and the utilization of electronics in our homes is developing exponentially. To put affront in damage, regular the machines and electronic mechanisms in our homes are under ambush from surges, spikes and electrical uproar. The time is now for an Entire House Force Administration Framework.

3. Towering Prices of Doing Laundry-The prices of laundry cleanser and life to wash in sizzling water have initiated concerns for today’s economists who are in edgy should cut living costs. And then with the developing Green consciousness, increasingly folks are in addition searching for more spotless approaches to do laundry.

4. Sullied and Acidic Water-75% of Americans have symptoms of chronic parchedness.

Most legislatures are attempting to create green life utilizing solar boards, dams and windmills. A significant number of robo communities are advancing a brand new crop of machines that are fuel proficient, half and halves or can run on bio-fuel. The vogue brotherhood is likewise turning green with dress, frill and even undergarments being made in asset productive methods and donning green trademarks. On the other hand, there are some drives that are less compared notes regarding.

Conventional agrarian rehearses in India were wholly natural where manures and pesticides were inferred from plant and beast items. Notwithstanding, concoction cultivating, embraced in the ballpark of 50 years in the past, carried with it numerous pitfalls like lessening in soil value and toxic prepare, making planters and shoppers would like return to the natural methods. Because the year 2000, the Indian legislature has distinguished natural cultivating as a national test, endeavored enterprises to advocate accepted rural information and recognized suitable domains for natural cultivating. Natural cultivating is a perfect case of green mechanics.

Green Energy: Electricity From Wind

Posted on May 24,May 25, by gogreen

Oooh, I want one so bad!! A windmill, or wind turbine, that is. And not just any turbine, I want a vertical axis wind turbine. I want to generate green energy, or electricity, from wind.

After we installed a solar array to generate about 7.5kW/day I got to thinking that we were missing some valuable energy production time by not having a wind turbine. A that time the guy who installed the photo voltaic array told us we weren’t good candidates for wind energy. Huh? It seems to me the wind blows all the time here. How could we not be good candidates?

His reply was that the wind we get is erratic, going from nothing to 14mph, down to 5mph and up to 35 mph. Traditional turbines need higher wind speeds to efficiently generate electricity, and don’t deal well with gusts and wind shears like we tend to get around here.

In my heart I knew there had to be a better way. The west was tamed with the help of windmills. How, in the age of improved technology, couldn’t there be a better deal than there was over 100 years ago?

Turns out there is. I first saw and appreciated the brilliance of a vertical axis turbine at a greening of the hotel industry meeting several years ago. An architect was sharing his energy-conserving design for a building he had just built. Not only did he employ a green wall on the south side of the structure to create shade for the building, a very cool concept — if you’ll excuse the pun, but also he had a wind turbine.

The way he placed the wind turbine was part of the cleverness of the arrangement. He had turbines placed at the corners of the buildings in what looked like stairwells, sticking above the roof line. The “stair well” housing the turbine was open on the roof side so that not only did the turbine catch blowing wind, but also wind “bouncing” off the roof. How cool is that?! Very.

I came right home and tried researching a vertical axis wind turbine so I could sell My Bigger Half on getting one for his office space. It was challenging to find enough information to share with him on the subject, much less to get him excited about it. I found a short video clip (linked below) of Jay Leno installing one on his garage warehouse in Burbank, and one or two manufacturers, and a few DIY models, but that was about it.

But today there is lots of information. Yaahooo! Now there are several videos of different vertical axis wind turbines, lots of manufacturers, and various wiki entries about them.

Here are a few of the ideas that appeal to me.

The Gale Wind Turbine
The Helix Wind Turbine
The Windspire Wind Turbine

The past few days I so wish we had wind energy going at the house, it’s been too windy for anything but generating electricity! I bet we could avoid paying any electric bill if we hand a wind turbine at My Bigger Half’s office. One day we’ll have one and I’ll be so happy about it.

Wind energy sure beats oil spills!

Green Living – Renewable Energy Solutions

Posted on May 18, by gogreen

As we move into the future, we are arriving at a time when we need to depend on renewable energy solutions. These would include those that we can capture from the world around us including wind and solar power. Also, we need to think of increasing the amount of recyclable materials that are available at an ever increasing rate due to our growing population and the tendency of our society to become used to throwing everything away.

Hydroelectric power is a clean source of energy, but we are almost at the limit of sources for this method due to the finite areas that dams can be placed.

Solar panels and wind turbines can generate enough electricity to supply the power needs of an entire house. This power can be stored in batteries for later use.

These forms of energy can not only decrease the cost of running a household, they can be an enhancement that can add true resale value to the house. Solar panels have steadily increased the electrical output through the years. We have all seen the emergency telephones at the side of the highway. In lots of locations there is a small solar panel at the top of the support pole. We have calculators with small solar cells in them for power. For the past 20 years at least, we have seen the satellites that beam various signals to earth. These are powered for the most part by solar panels once they are in earth orbit.

The basic unit of these solar panels is a solar cell. These cells generate a form of electricity called photovoltaic. The cells are grouped together in modules which are in turn made into the solar panels.

The earth is running out of fossil fuels and nuclear power is still an unattractive option. Solar and wind power, besides being safe are also free. We just need to harness the power. The average homeowner should realize that there are inexpensive ways that solar panels and also wind turbines can be added to their homes. They can produce electricity. These can reduce the cost of energy.

There are kits which give detailed instructions for completion of these projects with manuals and videos. The addition of solar and wind capture systems does not have to be an expensive option for the average homeowner. The kits available give detailed instructions for completion with manuals and videos. There is also information included in some kits detailing where to get free batteries to store the generated electricity.

Let us look into these sources of alternate energy generation to help cut costs of living and help save the earth.

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Green Tips to Adopt for a Green Lifestyle Easily

Posted on May 18, by gogreen

Summarised below are some green tips that you can adopt for a green lifestyle easily! All these tips are selected based on their ease of adopting and effectiveness.

a) Eat and shop green. Prepare your meals by purchasing or growing your own organic vegetables. Otherwise consume vegetables and fruits that are in season and grown locally.

b) Bring your own shopping bag instead of using plastic bags when you shop for groceries. This green tip can be adopted easily in your green lifestyle immediately!

c) Another green tip to adopt easily is to thaw your frozen food a few hours in advance before cooking using room temperature instead of using the microwave oven.

d) Pre-sort out your trash to separate paper, aluminium cans, certain plastics from the perishables and organic trash. Involve your family members in this green tip to make it more enjoyable and less of a chore.

e) Take public transport or walk to destinations within your residential district or community instead of driving. This green tip can be adopted easily into your green lifestyle but also saves you money spent on gym memberships!

f) Do your laundry only when you have a full load. For clothing like jeans and shower towels, you can wear and use them more than once before dumping them into your washing machine.

g) Switch off your electrical appliances at the mains. Do not leave them on maintenance mode. This green tip that can be adopted easily will prevent unnecessary money spent on utilities.

h) Purchase and use dry-cell batteries that contain 0% cadmium and mercury in your green lifestyle. Such batteries are readily available in major departmental stores like Ikea.

i) Utilise the half-flush button that is available on most toilets to flush away liquid waste instead of the full flush mode. A full flush can waste up to 6 litres of water therefore this green tip, once adopted in your green lifestyle, will easily prevent unnecessary wastage of water.

j) Reduce your average shower time instead of spending long hours in the shower. Wash your face using a small container of water instead of under a running tap.

k) Do not use a hose to wash your car or water your plants. This green tip will prevent large-scale wastage of water that will otherwise occur easily.

l) Generate your own electricity from green energy sources for your own heated water for your showers. This long-term green modification to your house will add to your green lifestyle and also allows you to go off-gird. It also increases the resale value of your house.