Greener Living Today: Forty Ways to a Green Lifestyle (1) (Kindle Edition)

Greener Living Today: Forty Ways to A Greener Lifestyle, offers practical tips about moving your life into greener pastures. Take a walk through specific areas of your home with an environmentally friendly eye and discover better options for choosing cleaning products and appliances. Find lists of toxin-free health and beauty items. Discover creative ideas with which to conserve energy, water resources and more. Consider green pet care products, environmentally sound lawn and ya (more…)

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Grow a Greener Data Center (Paperback)

Grow a Greener Data Center   A guide to building and operating energy-efficient, ecologically sensitive IT and Facilities infrastructure   Conventional Data Centers can have a huge impact upon the environment, using massive amounts of energy and water, emitting pollutants, and discarding huge quantities of machine waste. Their insatiable demand for energy and often inefficient designs make Data Centers expensive to operate and prime targets for future environmental regulat (more…)

How To Plan For A Green Christmas

Today planning for a greener Christmas is all about being environmentally friendly and save money as well. In times of economic uncertainty is the perfect time to start. And of course, with a little bit of snow too, will make the perfect green Christmas holidays!

Christmas gifts exchange is an excellent place to start our green Christmas habits. The gift wrapping paper sold in stores is usually not recyclable. Most of it is immediately thrown away to end up in landfills. This makes gift wrapping with store-bought paper expensive and very unfriendly to the planet – not what we want for a green Christmas.

A much better choice, and everyone will appreciate, is to use your children’s artwork to wrap gifts. You could also use your children’s comic books, or the comic sections of newspapers as a bright and colorful alternative.

The Sierra Club, America’s oldest and largest environmental organization, estimated that if every family just gift wrapped three gifts by recycling existing paper they already have, the paper saved would be enough to cover 45,000 football fields. Now, that’s a green Christmas and a whole lot of trees saved too!

If you plan to hang a wreath on your front door. Consider making one yourself. It’s easy and very environmentally friendly too. Go into the woods, or even a nearby park, and find evergreen branches and dried twigs. These can be wrapped in a circular fashion with cranberries strung together to add a splash of bright color. You will surprise yourself at you can make, it won’t cost you anything but a little time, and some good exercise. Your green Christmas can’t get any better than that.

There are a lot more things you can do to make a green Christmas. Consider making your own cards, for example. Use your children’s artwork again – it’s perfect for this and grandparent will love it. You can use LED Christmas lights on your tree and you will save 90% on electricity. So start thinking about, you will come up with other great ideas for a green Christmas.

What Companies Stand To Benefit From Greener Energy And Technology?

Given the incoming Obama administration’s emphasis on greener energy solutions, what companies out there are best positioned to gain from this shift? What American companies are currently leading the way in cleaner energy (solar, wind, ethanol, etc)?