People who are considering doing some home improvement will be interested to know that the money you spend in order to complete your project is eligible for tax deduction. It is very important to know exactly what you are doing in your home improvement process, however, as home improvement is different from home repair. In [...]
Recent studies show how global warming will impact warm-weather plants and animals:-
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Many scientific arguments are no different from mere common sense. Yet common sense requires a lot of experiment and theory to become part of science. We know in our bones that the tropical species are in trouble from climate change. When the planet warms [...]
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Humans are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun’s light. Because of this, we’ve engineered the night for our own comfort by filling it with light.
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Light pollution is largely the result of poor lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky. Wherever human light [...]
Many homeowners worry about their home heating bills only when temperatures begin to drop. This can be a costly mistake. Demand for efficient hearth products, such as freestanding stoves or fireplace inserts, skyrockets in cooler months, often exceeding supply. If you were in the market for a hearth product last winter, you may have [...]
This winter, New Year’s Eve revelers will have a close-up view of Times Square’s first environmentally friendly billboard powered entirely
by wind and sun.
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But the billboard might not be quite as dazzling as some of its high-powered neighbors along the Great White Way.
Construction on the 35,000-pound sign advertising Ricoh Americas Corp is to begin this [...]
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Researchers have developed a device that harnesses the power of the sea to push water uphill to provide cheap renewable electricity.
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According to a report in the Times, the invention, known as ‘Searaser’, is designed to pump water hundreds of feet above sea level from where it can gush [...]
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a new way of storing energy from sunlight. The breakthrough could potentially lead to ‘unlimited’ solar power.
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The process, which is loosely based on plant photosynthesis, uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. When needed, the gases can then be re-combined in a [...]
Most of us in the country are dreading the electric bill showing it’s ugly head in our mailbox this summer. Depending on the size of your home and the amount of people living there making the meter spin at a rapid pace, will help determine exactly how high your bill will reach this summer.
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A rock found mostly in Oman can be harnessed to soak up the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, at a rate that could help slow global warming, scientists say. When carbon dioxide comes in contact with the rock, peridotite, the gas is converted into solid minerals such as calcite.
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Geologist Peter Kelemen and geochemist Juerg [...]
Nowadays, it can be confusing to the average consumer on how to choose an air cleaner. With the myriad of new technology and the wide variety of brands available, no wonder it can be a challenge to choose a good air cleaner. Here are some tips to assist you in choosing one.
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The CADR Level
CADR stands [...]
A healthy home is your refuge. It’s the place where you go to relax and be with your family. The place where you feel safe. However, your home may also be the place that most affects your health in a negative way.
The following list of tips will help you get started in making sure [...]
Paper or plastic?” It seems like it should be an easy choice, but from durability and reusability to life cycle costs, there’s a lot more to each bag than meets the eye.
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Paper comes from trees — lots and lots of trees. The trees are found, marked and felled in a process that all too often [...]
In 1932, J.M. Custer of Piggott, Arkansas had an idea for a car that would run on compressed air. He not only built the car, but it actually ran. He used an engine that resembled a radial airplane motor in appearance. It was mounted upright in the same space occupied by gasoline motors in standard [...]
A reddish microbe found on the inside of a tree at a secret location in the rain forests of northern Patagonia could unlock the biofuel of the future, say scientists.
Its potential is so startling that the discoverers have coined the term “myco-diesel” — a derivation of the word for fungus — to describe [...]
The future of building technology is here and it’s full of holes. The Swiss cheese exoskeleton shell of COR, the first sustainable, mixed use condominium in Miami, Florida is a hyper-efficient smart skin simultaneously providing the building structure, thermal mass for insulation, shading for natural cooling, terrace enclosures, armatures for energy producing turbines, and loggias [...]
One must note that not all “green” homes are really green. It seems that the trendy word used now is “green” and with the current real estate market softening everywhere, realtors, developers and homeowners are getting “creative” with words that might help draw attention to their home(s) for sale.
We at Listed Green call this the [...]
Radiant heaters work like the sun by warming people and objects. Radiant heaters without fans are not designed to heat an entire room, but excel at providing instant heat for one or two people.
Two examples of radiant heaters without fans are radiant heat panels and parabolic heaters.
Radiant heat panels are constructed with the heating element [...]
A large number of Americans are turning to very popular alternative form of home heating called radiant floor heat. Some choose to use it in kitchens, bathrooms, and basements as supplemental heating and to take the chill off of cold floors. Others use it to heat their entire home. When home owners research these products [...]