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 [...]
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. ………………. 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 [...]
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. It [...]
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. . Paper comes from trees — lots and lots of trees. The trees are found, marked and felled in a process that all [...]
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 [...]
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 Daily Green offers this handy guide on the various types of plastic: Number 1 Plastics — PET or PETE (polyethylene terephthalate) Found In: Soft drinks, water and beer bottles; mouthwash bottles; peanut butter containers; salad dressing and vegetable oil containers; ovenable food trays. Recycling: Pick up through most curbside recycling programs. Recycled Into: Polar [...]
As plastic ages or is exposed to heat or stress, it can release trace amounts of some of its ingredients. Of particular concern are bisphenol-a (BPA), used to strengthen some plastics, and phthalates, used to soften others. These chemicals are used in hundreds of household items; BPA is in everything from baby bottles to can [...]
A scientist has invented the world’s fastest bio-degradable polymer that degrades faster than other plastics. According to a report in The New Straits Times Online , the invention, known as “Degra-TPE”, which was created by Professor Hanafi Ismail, is made using recycled and natural materials. The invention has won Professor Ismail a gold medal at [...]