1. Baseload Power Bull
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...to use fossil fuels such as coal.     So what is baseload power?    It's the amount of electricity needed to meet minimum demands within a given area.    And why...

2. New Study Shows Wide Scale Impacts of Coal Ash
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...ng coal, on water quality across the country.The report shows that coal power plants are discharging huge amounts of toxic pollution including arsenic, mercury, and selenium into rivers, streams, and ...

3. Other greenhouse gases
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...trary to popular belief, only about a third of us emit methane when, you know - and it's a very small amount :). All jokes aside, methane is a potent greenhouse gas. While it has a  shorter ...

4. Groups Urge Obama: Don’t Buy Canada's Dirty Oil
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... tar sands emits three to five times the global warming pollution as conventional oil, requires excessive amounts of energy and fresh water, and destroys huge swaths of boreal forest. "Allowing t...

5. Dishwashing detergent environmental impact
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...an algal bloom. One of the most dangerous blooms is created by blue-green algae, cyanobacteria. If large amounts are ingested, this can even kill humans. Algal blooms block out sunlight and cause o...

6. Obama Boosts Commitment to Energy Efficiency
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...unced new energy efficiency standards for lightbulbs--standards which could obviate the need for the amount of energy produced by 14 dirty coal-fired power plants.  The president a...

7. Stop Stealth Dirty Oil Pipelines
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...rta Clipper pipeline is part of a massive, yet largely overlooked super project that would bring enormous amounts of dirty tar sands oil into the United States via a sprawling spider web of thousands ...

8. Greening your family
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...asteful in other aspects. Just as an example, the automobile has allowed us to get more done in a shorter amount of time, with less effort. Our trucks can move massive amounts of goods that could neve...

9. Bamboo Flooring Pros and Cons
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...ood are great. Forests are ever diminishing with each year because of all the industries that cut massive amounts of trees for their production and floor manufacturing plays a big part in that. Bamboo...

10. A Green Vocabulary For Green People
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...ike carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide or "greenhouse emissions". It's about lifestyle and the amount of carbon based resources we consume through transportation, climate control, manufactu...

11. Rain Barrel Water Recycling
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...0 gallons of water over the course of a normal summer by simply recycling rainwater. Of course, the exact amount will vary depending on the amount of rainfall in your area but the savings from recycli...

12. In Historic Step, EPA Determines Global Warming Major Threat to Human Health, Environment
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...25,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually. To put the 25,000 reporting threshold into perspective, it is the amount of pollution emitted from the annual energy use of about 2,200 homes, approximately 58,...

13. How wind turbines work
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...y used to to manufacture the turbine. Many turbine parts are recyclable and it's my understanding the amount of energy used in manufacture is balanced out within six to eight months after being co...

14. Renewable energy primer
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...ment needs to be manufactured to harness the sun's rays. Even so the energy payback time, that is the amount of time it takes to repay the energy and resources gone into creating something such as...

15. Sustainable Building 101
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...aled building all contribute to a reduced need for heating and cooling. With energy costs increasing, the amount of savings will only grow over time. 5. Many states and local utilities have programs o...

16. Battery Care in a Renewable Energy System
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...here are some definite things you want to do to make sure your set of batteries will last for the maximum amount of time. First off, if you have batteries in an enclosed building (which you should), y...

17. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
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...ot;tried and true" as being better than "new and hyped up" repetitive buying. Reducing the amount of new things that we use, by reusing old items for their intended purposes, is a good ...

18. 24 handy lemon tips
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...mprove juice yields. If you only need a little juice, some people pierce the end with a fork, squeeze the amount needed, cover the holes with tape and then store in the fridge. There's so much mor...

19. Other greenhouse gases
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...trary to popular belief, only about a third of us emit methane when, you know - and it's a very small amount :). All jokes aside, methane is a potent greenhouse gas. While it has a  shorter...

20. Disposable vs. rechargeable batteries
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...y-cell batteries are usually the alkaline type. They used to contain very high levels of mercury, but the amounts used have greatly decreased over the last couple of decades and some brands use none a...

21. Your Composting Questions Answered
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... an act of reseeding the world with beauty and divine scents. One thing that does not make sense is the amount of money spent on commercial fertilizers and compost. Composting yourself is free and m...

22. Your Recycling Questions Answered
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... every household in the United States and across the world. The United States has seen an increase in the amount of people recycling. It is estimated that thirty five percent of all garbage will be re...

23. Planned obsolescence
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...re specific to the machine, generic replacements were hard to come by; so customers would have pay a huge amount for the replacement - which explains why the machines were reasonably cheap to start ou...

24. What Is Reduce Reuse Recycle ?
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...ing supply of garbage. The first "R" in the three refers to reducing. This means to reduce the amount of garbage you generate. Try to buy items that are going to last longer so you do not h...

25. The Seven Building Blocks of Building Green
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... mulch. Green Building Block #5 - Water ConservationThe aim here is twofold: you need to both reduce the amount of water your family consumes, but also channel the rainwater that falls on your lot ba...

26. Cell phone recycling
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...hone in, so it's very convenient. Some recycling and refurbishing companies will even pay you a small amount of cash for your phone! Perhaps you could do a cell phone drive in your street, school ...

27. Fuel and food
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...uction of the Haber-Bosch process for the synthesis of nitrogen fertilizer. In the 1950's, the total amount of nitrogen based fertilizers produced was around 4 million tons. The Haber-Bosch proce...

28. Canned food and the environment
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...lb burning for almost four hours! The energy savings in recycling cans are certainly well worth the small amount of effort it takes to throw them in the right bin But what about the whole box and dice...