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Tapping into the energy from the sun is free and provides a never ending way to create power for your house or office. You can continue making power as long as the sun keeps shining. And due to advances in technology, it can now be very efficient and affordable to build solar powered homes.

You may be tempted to slip the occasional newspaper or soda can in your trash rather than sort them for the recycling. The family will forgive you that once in a while, but if you find you have amassed quite a bit of paper over the last few weeks or months you should give serious thought to recycling more often. Taking your paper – especially if it contains personal information – to a professional shredder or else a reputable recycling plant benefits your home life as well as the environment.

“Green Building” is a set of concepts that reduces the impact of buildings on our environment. One of the most effective green building strategies is to create an energy efficient building. The up front costs of some, but not all, of these items will be larger than traditional building practices. However, over the life of the building the energy savings will more than offset the original costs. Here are some of the basic strategies to creating an energy efficient building:

The Canadian Wind Energy Association believes that wind energy can produce up to 20% of Canada’s renewable electricity. You can use wind turbines for home use or perhaps a business, if the conditions meet wind turbines specifications.

The USA is a huge country. This is a quick look to see if areas with more sunlight produce more power with solar panels.

Solar energy system salesman may just try to impress you with the solar panels price they can offer. Here are a few other factors to bear in mind. I’m just being honest!

Solar energy is certainly not just used in solar panels, it is used all over the world. Find out more about what it is used for, and how solar panels can be useful.

The world of solar energy is one that involves a lot of jargon. Here, we explain some solar panel terms.

I think water is our most precious and endangered natural resource. As you can imagine then, water management is a vital undertaking for each and every person — especially in Western Society. Water conservation helps reduce the impact of water pollution and the depletion to our water systems, and is something you can easily do anywhere you go. Water management only takes a little bit of planning and thinking to reduce your water use and become waterwise.

Having a new home designed and built can be a good experience. Sometimes the purchaser will buy a plan in a new survey and will not wish to make any structural changes or adaptations to the original design.

Saving energy at home, using resources efficiently and making use of green alternatives for material for building houses is a great way to start going green. In addition, you can mind a few simple steps such as using green electronics and using waste biomass for useful purposes. It’s not that hard to start going green today.

Eco-friendly bathroom appliances may be becoming popular as people grow more conscious of the environment. Designer toilets with dual flush functions and showers that reduce water usage are among the features available to those who wish to minimise their impact when designing new bathroom suites. However, some experts have argued more needs to be done to make people aware of the steps they can take to protect the environment. Commenting on the government’s Green Deal, they have suggested homeowners should be incentivised to engage.