Americans have a love affair with drinking bottled water, though it’s not an earth-friendly habit. Lots of energy is consumed processing, manufacturing, and transporting the petroleum-based plastic bottles. And most of those bottles end up in landfills.
But bottled water is better for me, you say. Not true. It offers no relative health benefits. In fact, bottled water is less regulated than tap water and undergoes less testing.
The Food and Drug Administration regulates the former as a packaged food product, and the Environmental Protection Agency regulates the latter. But bottled water tastes better, you say. Not true. In many taste tests, subjects prefer tap water. If you’re not one of those people, you can always use a filter. Continue Reading »
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Just like food, clothing and shelter, energy too falls under the category of bare necessities of life. A modern man cannot imagine his life without energy (to be specific ‘power’). It is something that accompanies us right from the day break and helps us in carrying out daily chores with utmost ease.
Although a rich, deep brown when fully “cooked,” compost is “green” in several ways. It improves the vitality of flowers and vegetable plants, keeps moisture from draining or evaporating to quickly from the soil, and makes use of organic materials that would otherwise have simply added to overburdened landfills and incinerators.
To be successful at making your own compost, you’ll need to nourish the billions of microbes that do the work with the right balance of moisture, air, and food. The moisture content of a compost pile or bin should be about 50%, or about as moist as a sponge that has been wrung.
Hey guys, if you’ve got a small job in the garage, or in the garden or maybe even in the house, why not use a hand tool that doesn’t require electricity or gasoline. All that is required is a little muscle power.
The typical American receives hundreds of pieces of junk mail each year, and millions of trees are cut down to bring these unwanted-and usually unopened-items to your mailbox.
Americans have a love affair with drinking bottled water, though it’s not an earth-friendly habit. Lots of energy is consumed processing, manufacturing, and transporting the petroleum-based plastic bottles. And most of those bottles end up in landfills.
Editorial Comment: Here’s an article that gives a few tips on what to look for before you decide on buying affordable solar panels. But, these tips are solely for the purpose of purchasing some affordable solar panels not for building your own. To build your own, that method can be found here at 
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