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Dreaming Green: 8 Ways to Create an Eco-Home Dreaming Green: 8 Ways to Create an Eco-Home
Want to make your home more stylish AND healthier for your family and the environment? Lisa Sharkey and Paul Gleicher transformed their Manhattan brownstone into an eco-smart, eco-fabulous home. Read about eight green ways they improved their home -- plus get ideas for how to make your own home more eco-friendly.

Small Home Improvements for Big Energy Savings Small Home Improvements for Big Energy Savings
For each degree you raise or lower your thermostat, you can save up to 5 percent on your cooling or heating bills. Find out other simple ways to save energy, reduce water usage and run a greener home without spending much money – which will help you save money on utility bills later on.

5 Gift Ideas for Creating a Green & Healthy Dorm Room 5 Gift Ideas for Creating a Green & Healthy Dorm Room
Lily Bond knows how to incorporate green in a way that is easy and maintainable for a college student. Find out the top five healthy and green dorm supplies that college students really need.

Living Close to the Land: Mainstream Family Learns Homesteading Ways Living Close to the Land: Mainstream Family Learns Homesteading Ways
Nestled at 3,200 feet in the Sierras, halfway between Tahoe and Yosemite, lives a regular family — with a rather irregular knowledge of off-grid living. See how the Oswald family of four has pursued a homesteading life — installing a solar system, harvesting a turkey in their backyard, building a garden in the mountainous rocky soil and more. Mark Oswald also offers a few simple starter tips for going green.


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E.B. Boyd

That Apple Could Power Your Home

Take a look at a pile of food scraps, and most eco-minded folks think “compost.” And sure enough, that’s a ...

Joe Rogel

Help 3rdWhale Decide How to Donate! First iPhone App Developer to Join 1% for the Planet

Green mobile app developer 3rdWhale will be the first mobile app developer to join 1% For the Planet, a "growing ...

Suzanne Byrne

12 Must-See Green TV Shows

You've been doing your part to go green. Now take a break and watch what other people are doing to ...


More Articles

5 Home Energy Saving Ideas from 'Greensburg' Builders

How to Program a Digital Thermostat to Slash Utility Bills

10 Most Important Ways to Be a Virtuous Consumer

How Solar Cookers Work + 3 Recipes for Backyard or Backwoods

The Green Appliance Guide: How to Create a More Efficient Kitchen

Making an Old Home Green

How to Get Green Energy for Your Home and Save Money

7 Ways to Go a Little Greener

How Clean Is Clean Coal?

It’s Easy to Get Greener: Q&A with Ed Begley, Jr.

Utopian Intentional Community Has Thrived for 30 Years

Can Local Energy Save Us? Ideas from 'Deep Economy'

Going Green Pays: Tax Incentives for Eco Choices

Retired Couple Goes Solar to Retire Big Utility Bills

Solarizing Can Pay Off in More Ways than One

Going Solar in Sun-drenched SoCal

Energy Conservation: A No Brainer

Debunking Common Thermostat Myths

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Cooking With Solar In Your Backyard Cooking With Solar In Your Backyard

Ed Begley, Jr. shows off the solar oven he uses for cooking in the backyard, while his wife Rachelle humorously shares her gripes about the space it takes up. From Season 2 of Living With Ed.

3 Really Easy Ways to Be Energy Efficient 3 Really Easy Ways to Be Energy Efficient

Hollywood actor and green guru Ed Begley, Jr. shares his top three ways to increase energy efficiency and save money at home.

Go Solar: How & Why Go Solar: How & Why

As solar panels are installed on a typical home, the homeowner shares why she did it. Plus: Tips from Real Goods Solar's John Schaeffer on how to get started going solar.


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