Keep Your Attic Cool with a Solar Powered Vent

When it’s hot and sunny outside, your attic can feel like an oven, but you can keep it cool all day long with a solar powered vent.  These vents use the power of the sun to operate and ventilate your attic from sunrise to sunset, when you need it most.  Many homes have conventional roof [...]

10 Easy Ways to Save on Water Bills, Part I

In an earlier post, I wrote about why we should conserve water, including among many reasons:  nationwide water shortages within 5 years, and of course, saving money on water bills.  Here are ten ways to easily save water in your household and reduce your expenses. If you look closely at your water bill, you’ll likely [...]

How to Buy the Most Efficient Appliances

Nobody likes to get their monthly electricity, water and sewer bills, but there’s plenty of ways to reduce them.  Read my Top 5 Reasons to Conserve Energy post where you’ll also learn about easy ways you can reduce your energy consumption.  Read about the importance of saving water here.  I’ve written numerous posts about water [...]

Go Green This Earth Day, Part II

Happy Earth Day!  Why not do something nice for the planet and for your family?  Here are some easy things anyone can do today and every day (and they won’t cost you a dime!): Pick up litter when you see it.  It is especially important to pick up plastic litter (bags, bottles, caps, etc.) as [...]

GreenStrides Announces Consultation Services

I am excited to announce that GreenStrides has launched a new consultation service aimed at helping homeowners and small business owners go green.  GreenStrides Living offers something for everyone with three distinct services:  the Green Living Consultation; the Green Makeover; and Green Design Counseling. Our Green Living Consultation provides practical and cost-effective solutions to make [...]

How to Conserve Water while Landscaping

Now that Spring has arrived, many of you are beginning to make plans for your outdoor spaces.  Through proper planning and maintenance, you can grow a beautiful landscape without it consuming too much water.  This is especially important in dry climates and drought-prone areas.  A sure-fire way to achieve this is with a technique called [...]

Top 10 Affordable Green Retrofits for Commercial Buildings

Commercial buildings use a tremendous amount of energy, water and resources, in their construction and in daily operations, but there are numerous ways to reduce environmental impacts and cut those costs at the same time.  The Environmental Building News just issued it’s top 10 affordable green retrofit strategies that are useful even if your building [...]

Add Renewable Energy to Your Home and Enjoy Federal Tax Credits

Not only will you have peace of mind and lower utility bills when you add clean, renewable energy to your home, but you’ll also benefit from new and improved federal tax credits.  Installing such systems as solar panels and solar water heaters, small wind energy systems, geothermal heat pumps, biomass stoves, and fuel cells, will [...]

What’s Wrong with Bottled Water?

It may be convenient to carry a bottle of water when on the go, but there is a huge impact on the environment that many are not aware of.  For starters, we use millions of barrels of oil and billions of gallons of water every year just to make the plastic water bottles.  Plus, a [...]

What’s in Your Attic? Learn How to Save Energy and Money

If you’re still wondering why your house is so cold this winter, it may be a good idea to see what kind of insulation you have in your attic.  First you need to determine what the correct amount of insulation is for your geographical area.  Next, you need to head on up to the attic [...]

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