From Guest Blogger Emma Joyce: How to Build an Environmentally Friendly House
Building an environmentally friendly home will not only help you do your bit in preserving the planet and ecosystem but it will also be very cost-effective in the long run. In that respect, this type of green home building is definitely worth the initial investment. There may be more aspects to consider before the process starts but the final result will surely end up being more than satisfactory.
Initial aspects
Once you’re positive about building an eco-friendly home, the first thing you should consider is the land you’re going to build it on. It’s essential that you avoid disturbing the existing ecosystem. What’s more, cutting trees should not be an option. (more…)
My mother and I have a running dialog that I’ll bet is taking places in millions of families in the U.S., and probably all over the world. It goes like this:
A sustainable way of living and good health tend to go hand in hand, but it may not always be so. To be more precise, various menaces lurk in the shadow right under your roof, and some of them elude our senses. Thus, we need to look beyond the established conventions such as separating paper from plastic in the recycling bin and uncover ways in which health and environment-friendly living are connected. Changes to everyday activities present a great opportunity to look after our families and the Mother Nature. 
Here’s the latest installment of the Green Auto Digest, whose feature article presents a sad fact: especially given the energy policies of the new administration in the U.S., petroleum is ruling the day.
In the event that the new U.S. President’s use of “alternative facts” in his inauguration speech isn’t sufficiently reminiscent of George Orwell for you, let me refer you to this little beauty: 
Here’s an article for those interested in the three specific mechanisms being enacted by the 
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Here, Neil Degrasse Tyson provides his explanation as to 
Here’s a graph for those who said that battery prices could never fall far enough to make electric transportation effective.
