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New Articles for March 29, 2007

Solar Shingles
By Marcus Peterson

Shingles, generally considered as traditional roofing material, have undergone a lot of change since their earliest use. Solar shingles are perhaps the ideal example in which science and technology have smoothly blended with tradition. They can easily be termed as a path breaking invention in the roofing industry.

Hybrid Cars
By Holly Odom

There are many reasons why people should drive electric hybrid cars. They are safer for the environment than gasoline engines. They also are more fuel efficient, and cost less money to operate than a gasoline powered car. However, they also cost a little more to purchase than a similar gasoline powered car, and because they are so new it is hard to find any inexpensive used models. They also do not burn less fuel when being operated at highway speeds. Since the biggest consumers of gas and the biggest polluters are tractor-trailers and other commercial vehicles, the use of electric hybrid cars will make only a small dent in cleaning up the environment.

Recycling Tips To Help You Save The Earth!
By Margarette Tustle

You can recycle clothing, computers, cell phones, eyeglasses, appliances, furniture, etc.   It all is in your attitude and your effort.   If you have the desire to recycle you can find a way to do it.   The following recyling tips will guide you through the proper recycling process.

How to Make an Environmentally Friendly Bath and Spa Gift Basket
By Helen Hecker

Giving an eco-friendly or environmentally friendly bath and spa gift basket is a great way to help the environment.   Whether you buy the gift basket or make it yourself, the environment will be better off for it.   Think recycled paper (100% post-consumer, waste/process, chlorine-free paper), organic where possible, and recycling.   Just follow these simple instructions for making your bath and spa gift basket.

Earth as Our Body
By George Lockett

What does it mean to look at the Earth as you would your own body?

Organic Skin Care Products for Your Face and Skin
By Stephen Todd

Not only are organic skin are products therapeutic, but they are also healthier because they use natural ingredients unspoiled by chemicals or preservatives. Some of the ingredients found in many organic skin care products include organic essential oils, organic vegetable oils, as well as organic herbs from the wild.

Good Health
By Teow Aun Chew

Health is wealth. Health is the most precious thing in life. Without it, even with all the wealth in the world, one can never really enjoy it.

Kermit Said It Best, “It’s Not Easy Being Green!”
By Dawn Worthy

Local ladies on birth control pills are contaminating your drinking water with unused estrogen that is flushed from their bodies in their urine...All of this could be a bad sign for those responsible for producing semen.   (Personally, I wouldn't really count on bottled water as a solution.)

Organic Health Products: Nourishment, Energy and Body Cleansing
By Stephen Todd

When shopping for an organic health product, you should know that there is a variety of functions that each item possesses. Some products cleanse the body's systems, and other items provide nourishment and energy.

Are You Unknowingly Poisoning Your Family? Toxic Household Product Awareness
By Kelly Hoffman

What you don't know can hurt you!   Find out about the products in your home.   Many are filled with toxic chemicals, such as formaldehyde and are very hazardous.   Awareness is the first step.

Energy Conservation: Simple Tips that Will Reduce Your Energy Bill
By Hans Dekker

Most people are concerned with making their money last longer and energy conservation can help by reducing our energy costs.   Homeowners can do many things to cut down on their energy needs.

Read This Article if You Want Clean Water and Air
By Lance Winslow

Everyone wants to have clean water and air. These are two very important things for human life since we are living on the surface of the Planet.

Green Building Media Fact Sheet: Past, Present and Future
By Neda Dabestani-Ryba

New homes are twice as energy-efficient as they were 30 years ago, thanks to cutting-edge green building techniques and technologies available for new and remodeled homes.

Why Choose Organic Foods?
By Moss Greene

Had any yummy pesticides lately? Don't you imagine future generations might someday look back on our civilization and wonder why we sprayed poison on our food and then ate it?

Environmentalists Often Complain About GM Crops
By Lance Winslow

Maybe some of the people complaining ought to go to Africa and tell people to stop breeding like rats? Think of all the GM Crops can do for plastics, synthetic material and even for NASA since they are working with these R and D facilities to make organic materials with GM crops. All this special R and D is paid for by these companies due to the future promise of potential profits, but it is not without risk.

Bamboo Flooring: More Eco-Friendly than Hardwood Flooring and Bamboo Flooring is Easy to Fit
By Christopher Elliott

The modern, environmentally friendly and durable alternative to hardwood is bamboo flooring. Being a grass, as opposed to timber, gives bamboo the edge as a not only a building product (being strong and at the same time flexible), but also as a sustainable resource.

51 Easy, Eco-Friendly Ways You Can Help Sustain Planet Earth
By Susan Yurek

Choose what is comfortable for you and your family from these eco-ideas, and you will have done something important to grow a greener world!   It's the little things that count!

Environmental Eco-Terrorists Must Be Stopped
By Lance Winslow

Eco-terrorists assume some how they are helping the environment, by causing news worthy events and starting forest fires or burning down developments. Yet in doing so they cause air pollution and kill animals. This type of energy they are exhibiting causing harm is bad. This level of high energy could be good energy and used in positive ways. America needs high energy from people to get stuff done and maintain the flows of our civilization, but these eco-terrorists are so misguided that it is upsetting the balance of things.

Green Business 101
By Mansi Aggarwal

Environmental conservation has recently become the latest buzzword among major countries in the world. As governments of developed countries realize the importance and inevitability of working towards environmental conservation.

How Can I Be Environmentally Responsible?
By Lance Winslow

Many of us want to be environmentally responsible, yet it is so difficult sometimes to figure out just how to do it. The best thing is to pick out something simple and start with that. For instance washing your car.

Why Go Organic?
By Tiffany Washko

Why you and your family should adopt a completely organic lifestyle.

Going Green Can Save You Some Green
By Denise Trowbridge

Do you worry about the environment but don't quite know what you can do about it? Global warming, smog, the plight of the manatees--you want to help but feel powerless to do anything really meaningful. Well, don't feel powerless anymore. You can help the environment and your wallet with some minor adjustments to the way you live your daily life.

Sea Pollution
By Stewart Hare

Many waste substances that have been disposed of into the sea can cause a variety of acute and chronic health conditions.

Green Travel—Making Better Environmental Travel Choices
By Susanne Pacher

We all hear the term “global warming” all the time. During recent months I have started to read travel stories how the permanent ice cap of Mount Kilimanjaro is melting, how ski resorts in the Alps are going to be closing permanently due to lack of snow fall, how glaciers are melting in the Arctic, how increasingly more frequent and severe weather disturbances are disrupting tourism, and on and on the stories go.