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At Home July 4 2009

Could the Credit Crunch Also Be a Carbon Crunch?

Cosmo Catalano - While many people see sustainability as a luxury, reducing consumer purchasing power could slash American resource consumption.

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Scott Salyer

Energy Efficiency Enters the Public Vocabulary

Support for energy efficiency depends heavily on getting the public up to speed.»

Cosmo Catalano

Cutting Costs (and Carbon!) With Homemade Gifts

From ornaments to electronics, handmade gifts can help you shrink your carbon footprint.»

Cosmo Catalano

Bad Economy Good for Green Fridges

GE is rolling out smart appliances that optimize energy use and reduce harmful refrigerants.»

Thursday Bram

Nau Is Here Again

Nau, the environmentally-aware clothing line that closed in May, will soon reappear in select retail stores.»

Thursday Bram

Ben & Jerry's New Cool

Ben & Jerry's is testing a new kind of freezer based on hydrocarbons.»

Worldwatch Institute

U.S. City Dwellers Flock to Raising Chickens

An underground "urban chicken" movement has swept across the United States in recent years.»

Susan Kraemer

Roofer Discovers Green Roofs Last Longer

After working on his customers' roofs for 15 years, a Washington roofer finds inspiration and builds a vegetable garden on top of his own house.»

Cosmo Catalano

Setting the Table for Sustainable Shindigs

A sustainably-produced and biodegradable party set could ease your party clean-up in a whole new way.»

Cosmo Catalano

Tool Sharing Opens Up Green Home Improvement Options

A new wave of websites allows communities to cooperate on cost savings, quality-of-life increases, and carbon footprint reduction.»

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Inhabitat

Rent a Living Christmas Tree in San Francisco

As an alternative to clear-cutting, the SF Environment Department and Friends of the Urban Forest are offering trees for rent, which will be replanted after the holidays.»

Environment News Service

Sustainable Landscape Industry Takes Root in Texas

Some say the landscape industry will continue to thrive only if it adopts more environmentally-friendly growing and selling methods, and embrace sustainability.»

California Green Solutions

Heat Pump Retrofit Saves Money, Energy

AirGenerate has developed a heat pump retrofit that can more than double the energy performance compared with a standard electric water heater, using nothing more than the air surrounding it.»

Rocky Mountain Institute

Pennsylvania Governor Signs $650 Million Energy Fund

Governor Edward G. Rendell recently signed into law a new fund intended to save families and small businesses money on their energy bills by supporting investments in energy conservation and efficiency.»

River Wired

Harnessing the Wind at Home

A growing number of homes in the U.S. are opting to have residential wind turbines installed, and as a result are seeing dramatic reductions in their energy costs.»

Red Green and Blue

Off-Grid Living Going Mainstream?

No longer solely the realm of eco-conscious idealists and die-hard survivalists, off-grid homes are picking up steam as a viable mainstream option.»

River Wired

What Americans Misunderstand About Environmental Shopping

Greenwashing can obscure efforts to shop greener, but now there are ways to be sure that you’re actually shopping green and not falling victim to misleading hype.»

River Wired

The Small House Society

Living smaller, and supporting the movement away from McMansions into modest-sized homes is the aim of the Small House Society.»

River Wired

Sustainable Kitchen and Bathrooms Gaining Popularity

A fairly recent AIA Home Design Trends Survey shows that kitchens and bathrooms remain a popular key design area in the home, and that includes green additions and green remodels and features.»

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