From the blatantly obvious department comes a short piece on how people can be kinder to the environment by living in an urban setting. The suburban lifestyle isn’t the best for the environment for many reasons, so everybody move downtown to show the world some love!
The fact is, urban living is kinder to the planet, [...]
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Urban Living Better than Sub-urban Living
May 20, 2008 – 8:46 am
Clean Your House, Don’t Hurt the Environment
May 13, 2008 – 12:24 pm
Synthetic cleaners scare me. A lot. I really don’t like the idea of using bizarre chemicals to ‘clean’ things. In some cases cleaning products use poisons which leaves me wondering how poisons can make a place sanitary.
Clean your house the environmentally friendly way! This video can get you started:
How To Clean Your House The [...]
Eco Mombassa
May 1, 2008 – 10:09 am
Mombassa is going to be home to Kenya’s first eco-city. The spread of the eco-cities is fantastic news because urban living is fun and is becoming more environmentally awesome!
Construction of Kenya’s first eco-city — a residential settlement that is environmentally, socially, economically and culturally self-sustaining — has commenced on the outskirts of Mombasa, with the [...]
Put Your Fridge Outside
April 9, 2008 – 9:06 am
I’ve always found it fascinating that in Canada we don’t have a system in our houses that use the naturally cold air outside (during the winter of course) to cool our fridges. I’m not the only one who has wondered this.
World Changing has wondered this as well:
“…designed to provide such free cooling for walk-in [...]
Change Buildings, Save the World
March 26, 2008 – 9:56 am
A study has been released (2mb PDF) by Commission for Environmental Cooperation; and Celsias has put up a nice summery for us. They note that a simple way for us to lower our impact on the environment is to change how we construct buildings in North America.
Existing building techniques can be used to improve efficiency [...]
Solar Leafs for Homes
March 3, 2008 – 11:41 am
This is a neat idea that may or may not go with your aesthetic tastes, but should go with your green tastes. Inhabitat says that solar leafs can hang off your house while providing you power. Like leaves on trees, these leafs use the sun to make energy, and unlike trees, these solar shingles also [...]