Making Your Home Green
Everywhere you turn these days, there go those buzzwords again: green, eco, organic, sustainable, renewable, alternative, recycled, reused. And it's not just Al Gore and Whole Foods Market and Mother Earth News and a bunch of long-haired, tofu-loving guys wearing Birkenstocks and obsessed with Armageddon doing the talking. The conversation now has entered bastions of Middle America - places like Target, The Home Depot and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., all of which are making a major green push. Add to that an ever-growing buzz over global warming, carbon footprints, China's thirst for oil, a nuclear renaissance and the plight of the polar bear. But what's the average homeowner to do to make any sort of difference?
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At Home & Garden
Tips From The EPA
Making small changes in your home and yard can lead to big reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and can even save you money. Explore our list of eight simple steps you can take around the house and yard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Change a light, and you help change the world. Replace the conventional bulbs in your 5 most frequently used light fixtures with bulbs that have the ENERGY STAR qualified options and you will help the environment while saving money on energy bills. If every household in the U.S. took this one simple action we would prevent more than 1 trillion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.
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