🌼 What We Eat in a Day + HUGE PERGOLA SET UP! (Vegan Family) 🌱

You will find there’s massive amount of info that you require to understand about solar panels if you are preparing to create your very own solar cell at home or are thinking about installing a solar panel at home to decrease the total cost of power consumption. Though there are a number of other types of renewable energy, solar powered energy could be the easiest to harness as it doesn’t involve a lot of space. Solar panels convert the suns energy into electrical energy.

Have you ever thought about where your wood furniture comes from? The organic food movement has made us question the origin of our food. Now the fundamental concerns voiced in that movement are carrying over to the furniture and flooring industries. You’ll be surprised to learn where your “American Made” furniture and flooring comes from.

Were you aware that over 90 percent of all water that enters a home ends up down a drain? Consider how many times the shower is run, a faucet is left on, or a toilet is flushed, and this number may begin to seem less unbelievable. As we approach Earth Day 2011, think about making a change in the way water is used around your home.

Thinking of incorporating renewable energy along side your current ‘on-grid’ system? Find out how renewable energy systems work to supplement your power usage and can lower energy bills.

There are many ways that you can go green outside of the home. Believe it or not, there are many simple changes you can make when it comes to your food routine at work that can actually make a positive impact on the environment. Read on to find out what some of these simple (and money saving!) tips are.

Have you read the back label of your purchased toys that you bought for Christmas? Did they use lead or mercury as an additive? Did you research any of the toys your kids asked for last year? I didn’t, I started to think about it this year. What am I really giving them to play with and hold for hours a day? Skin is like a sponge it absorbs whatever it touches. Skin doesn’t know the difference between good and bad ingredients. We do though.

This winter has been a truly harsh one for much of the county. Even here in “sunny California” we have been shivering much of the time. In the eastern part of the nation, a series of blizzards have cripple cities, and skyrocketed home heating costs. With the country struggling to recover from the most severe recession in 80 years, these added heating costs are a burden that many families can hardly afford. With this in mind, a new environmental technology stands to dramatically lower the average home heating bill, while lowering energy consumption and the size of the average family’s carbon footprint.

Insulation is one of the most popular forms of green home improvement – and with good reason. It has been estimated that the average property that does not have the benefit of home insulation could see owners forking out hundreds of pounds every year to pay for higher heating bills. This is because without wall, floor and loft insulation, adequate draught-proofing and double glazing, a building literally leaks away much of the warm air that is pumped into it by radiators, gas heaters or wood burning stoves.

A great way to add extra cash to your wallet is to make easy green home improvements to your home. Many such improvements are easy to do, cost-effective, good for the planet, and they will result in massive savings to you. One such improvement, installing dual flush toilet conversions, can be done in less than a half an hour, and will result in no negative changes to your daily quality of life.

Most of us know the benefits of solar energy, but the problem with solar panels have been the high cost. But there is a way to get cheap solar panels if you build them yourself. Solar panels can be easy to put together and the materials can be cheap if you know where to look.

Look up the term sun oven on the internet and you will find a diverse range of products. Primarily solar cookers, some very basic and somewhat antiquated, to some demonstrating an almost 21st century surreal, supersonic “look-and-feel” to them. One such example is Anil Dincer and Murat Ozveri’s Smart Sun Solar Cooker for DesignQuadro.

It’s the lazy environmental activist’s dream: outdoor lounge furniture that works to clean up the oceans while you relax sipping your pina colada on the beach. Too good to be true? Learn how American ingenuity has turned plastic trash into durable patio furniture.