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7 Tips for Planning Your Green Wedding
Tips to green your wedding, from organic flowers and local foods to sustainable invitations and greener gift registries.
Why We Need Major Green Economic Incentives
We are facing serious challenges in real estate, economics, energy security, not to mention global warming. There is a way to kill all these birds with one stone, so to speak: smart economic incentives for green building and energy efficiency.
Orange County Choppers Goes Green
Orange County Choppers is making its facilities green with the help of low-interest energy efficiency loans from New York Energy $mart.
Your Guide to Eco-Chic Wedding Gifts
Green weddings are becoming increasingly popular, and even if the happy couple isn't going with a green theme, you can still make your gift stand out, and uphold your values, by giving green wedding gifts.
The Vodka Poison Ivy Cure ... and 9 Other Weird Uses for Vodka
Vodka has many uses beyond being a spirited drink. The alcohol is good for green cleaning, as medicine and much more.
How Many Kids Does It Take to Screw in a CFL?
CB Richard Ellis gave out compact fluorescent light bulbs to its employees' children to help spread the go green message.
Safer Baby Bottles
Don't want BPA leaching into your baby's lunch? Look for these BPA-free bottles.
The Push for a Greener Super Bowl
Kerry Mitchell, president of Green Real Estate Education, is advising Tampa Bay to invest in energy efficiency to host a greener Super Bowl next season.
Cindy Crawford's Easy Green Tips for Everyday Life
Supermodel and mom Cindy Crawford has teamed up with PUR water filters in the Thirsty for Change campaign, which aims to educate consumers about the waste of bottled water. Crawford also suggests a host of useful tips for going green.
7 Simple Money Savers for the Home
Get started going green with these 7 simple steps to saving money, while boosting efficiency, saving energy and water and more.
Green Building's D'oh! Moment
Green office space is more profitable. So why are buildings still being built and retrofitted with conventional techniques?
This Spring, Recycle Your T-Shirts in Style
Barneys New York, Loomstate and Sundance Channel's The Green are teaming up to bring an innovative green fashion recycling program. Drop off old t-shirts and help promote the green cause.
Organic Spring Flowers
Our List of the Most Beautiful Bouquets
Gorgeous Green Gifts for Mother's Day
Give thoughtful green gifts this Mother's Day, and show how much you care.
What Do Recycling Symbols on Plastics Mean?
Many plastics are highly recyclable, but understanding what the recycling symbols mean can seem daunting. Here is a handy guide to plastic recycling codes.
At Home with Green Celebrity Jason Alexander
Celebrity actor Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame is one of Hollywood's leaders in green parenting. He shares his care for the environment with his family, drives a hybrid, and invests in energy efficiency and green building.
New VW TDI Hybrid Concept Car to Get 69 MPG
The Volkswagen TDI diesel hybrid concept car boasts impressive gas mileage of 69 mpg.
Earth Hour Was Not a Hit Everywhere
Earth Hour wasn't a visible presence in New York City.
Can Green Building Rescue the Battered Real Estate Market?
Signs Condos Are Going Green
Green building is becoming increasingly popular among developers and homebuyers for condos, and that means healthier dwellings and lower footprints.
Easy, Nontoxic, Green Spring Cleaning
These tips and recipes for green cleaning will make your spring-cleaning easy, as well as safe, nontoxic and natural. Rediscover cheap, time-tested cleaners like vinegar, baking soda, borax and more.
Your Guide to New Green Home Labels
From the NAHB's green homes program to Energy Star, the USGBC's LEED for Homes and more, certification helps homeowners get the best value and marketing ability out of environmentally friendly features.
Going Green Gains Momentum in Tough Real Estate Market
Green building is taking off in the real estate market, with residential and commercial buyers looking for better energy efficiency and indoor air quality, as well as reduced emissions. Is it a way out of a tough housing market?
With Small Mods, Mercedes Boosts Fuel Economy
With its new Blue Efficiency line, Mercedes is offering improved gas mileage. Fuel economy is boosted mostly through small design tweaks, improving aerodynamics and reducing weight.
Green Remodeling Ideas for Smart Home Sellers
Learn to beat the tough housing market with green remodeling. Green renovations can help you get ahead in real estate, from green building to energy efficiency and water conservation.
Agent Blog: Home Buyers Want Green Features
Ecobreaker and green real estate agent Brad Coy blogs about how to sell your home in this poor housing market. Going green is a way to get ahead in this tough real estate market, he says. Energy efficiency, green materials and more are a good start.
Green and Gorgeous Remodeling: Low-VOC Paints
Get great colors with low-VOC paints. Green paints make for healthier indoor air quality, without all those volatile organic compounds. Green remodeling and renovation now possible from major makers like Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams and more.
Green and Gorgeous Remodeling: Efficient Kitchens
Save money with energy conservation and water conservation. In green remodeling and renovation, outfit kitchens with Energy Star, efficient appliances and fixtures: GE, Kenmore, Bosch, Kohler, Asko and more.
Green and Gorgeous Remodeling: Laundry Rooms
Green remodeling and renovation for your laundry rooms. Get energy efficient, Energy Star washing machines and dryers. Energy conservation and water conservation means you'll save money and increase property value. Get clean clothes without hassle.
Green and Gorgeous Remodeling: Green Bathrooms
Save water, and money, with water conservation. It's easy with low-flow fixtures, touchless faucets, low-flow shower heads, low water toilets and more. Get greener bathrooms with Kohler, Toto, American Standard and more.
5 Simple Money-Saving Green Remodeling Ideas
Here are 5 simple green remodeling ideas to improve energy and water conservation in your home. These green renovations are about saving money while saving resources.
Green Remodeling Ideas for Smart Home Sellers: South Florida Edition
Learn how going green can help you sell your home in the South Florida housing market. Real estate is depressed in the area, but energy efficiency, water conservation and more can help homeowners get a sale.
Green Remodeling Ideas for Smart Home Sellers: Washington, DC, Edition
Learn how green remodeling can help you sell your home in Washington, D.C.'s housing market. Real estate is depressed in the area, but energy efficiency, water conservation and more can help homeowners get a sale.
Green Remodeling Ideas for Smart Home Sellers: Detroit Edition
Learn how green renovations can help you sell your home in Detroit's housing market. Real estate is depressed in the area, but energy efficiency, water conservation and more can help homeowners get a sale.
Green Remodeling Ideas for Smart Home Sellers: Southern California Edition
Learn how green remodeling ideas can help you sell your home in California's Inland Empire housing market. Real estate is depressed in the area, but energy efficiency, water conservation and more can help homeowners get a sale.
Green Remodeling Ideas for Smart Home Sellers: Phoenix Edition
Learn how going green can help you sell your home in Phoenix's housing market. Real estate is depressed in the area, but energy efficiency, water conservation and more can help homeowners get a sale.
Green and Gorgeous Remodeling: Eco-friendly Flooring
Eco-friendly Flooring
Green and Gorgeous Remodeling: Eco-friendly Countertops
Green countertops.
How Green Remodeling Can Help Sell Your House
With a real estate bubble and foreclosures, green remodeling ideas offer a way to get a leg up with your real estate. Homeowners are using green building and energy efficiency to stand out in the marketplace.
Confessions of an Eco-Minded Real Estate Agent
Green renovations, going green, can mean a revolution for the troubled housing market. While the real estate market suffers from foreclosures, green building and energy efficiency can earn homeowners better home prices and more home sales.
This Valentine's Day, Give Natural Soy Candles
Instead of conventional candles, which are made of paraffin petroleum products, synthetic dyes and fragrances, and which harm indoor air quality, give gifts of natural candles for Valentines Day. Soy candles, essential oils, aromatherapy.
Go Sexy and Green with Eco-Friendly Lingerie
Eco lingerie is now sexy, soft and beautiful. From organic cotton and bamboo panties, boy shorts, robes and other intimates, your undergarments can be eco friendly and gorgeous.
3 Money-Saving, Green Ways to Spend Your Tax Rebate
Put your tax rebates to work going green. Invest in energy efficient appliances, including dishwashers, washing machines and refrigerators.
"Lego Block" Eco Town to Be Built in Scotland
An eco town is being built in scotland based on lego bricsks. This green building style is a container community, built up with modular homes, prefabricated homes. Prefab design going green.
10 New CFLs to Fit Your Life and Lamps
CFLs, compact fluorescent light bulbs, pack energy efficiency, maximizing energy efficiency. CFLs now come in a variety of styles, from 3 way to dimmable, to globe, to candelabra and more.
Top 5 Green Gadgets Unveiled at CES
At CES 2008, the Consumer Electronics Association's show in Las Vegas, going green is the theme, with carbon offsets and recycled products. Manufacturers are also displaying green gadgets galore, of which we list 5: LED TVs, rechargeable batteries, c
Little-Known Omission in Energy Bill Hits Homeowners Hard
A little-known omission in the federal energy bill hits homeowners hard: Congress failed to renew energy efficiency tax credits. Homeowners can no longer get money back on their taxes for such efficiency improvements as efficient heating and cooling
Make 2008 the Year to Take Advantage of Renewable Energy Tax Credits
Make 2008 the year to take advantage of federal energy tax credits. Install renewable energy on your home, whether that's photovoltaic solar panels or solar hot water heaters, and get a tax credit.
How to Recycle Your Used Electronics
From computers to cell phones, recycle your e-waste. Electronics have heavy metals and other toxins and use a lot of resources, so they need to be recycled properly instead of thrown in the trash.
7 Lost Household Arts
Much of going green isn't new. Many of the eco-tips people are "discovering" are things our grandparents did every day. Here are our favorite "lost arts" from our collective memory banks, ideas that save money and the planet.
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