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Author: Taylor Wells

  1. When putting away your summer clothing, check to see if there is anything you can recycle for rags or to donate, also when buying new clothes why not revive your wardrobe with some vintage or recycled clothing.
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Sometimes it seems like being Green can cost more when it actually saves your money, for example, CFL energy-efficient light bulbs may cost a few dollars more, but they actually save you money on your energy bills and last 10 times longer than incandescent light bulbs. Here are some other quick ways you can save money:

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Author: Desh

A green wall – often confused with a vertical garden or a sky farm – is either free-standing or part of a building with some sort of vegetation, seeking to make amends to the lack of space on the ground. These green walls don’t only add a definitive grace to a building’s façade, they also help filtering air into edifices. Since the living walls require no soil for sustenance, the only prerequisite is water; and that too, in abundance. Through the hydroponics systems they rely on, green walls can sustain almost all sorts of vegetable growths.

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Author: Sarah Parsons

Reading the newspaper during your morning commute is about to get a lot more convenient. LG recently unveiled its flexible e-paper, a new type of e-reader designed to mimic the look and feel of a newspaper page. Once commercialized, the revolutionary technology will slim down bulky dailies and hopefully save tons of paper, wastewater and carbon emissions.

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Author: Caroline Haywood

The amount of food that is thrown away or wasted is staggering. According to the Suzuki Foundation, close to half of all food produced worldwide is wasted! Over 30% of fruits and vegetables in North America don’t even make it onto store shelves because they’re not pretty enough for picky consumers. In the USA, more than 33 million tons of food ended up in landfills in 2010. This is especially staggering when you consider that no food at all needs to end up in landfill – it should be consumed or composted and reused to grow other food sources.

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Author: Melanie Kozlan

Used coffee grinds are surprisingly versatile and easy to repurpose. Don’t drink coffee but interested in the benefits of reusing coffee grinds? Coffee shops like Starbucks go through incredible amounts of coffee every day and often offer grinds to their customers free of charge in an effort to help the environment. Read on for ways to use them for hair care, skin care, in the garden and more!

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Author: Wenona Napolitano

I have been busy planning my summer garden. By this time of year, I usually have it planned out by now but here in Michigan the weather has been so cold, wet and pathetic I haven’t done much. I don’t even have my seeds started yet and I need to get them planted this weekend or they’ll never be big enough to transplant once the weather is warm enough to put everything in the ground.

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