Five Beginners’ Steps to a Greener Home
April 2, 2009
A recent Amazon.com search for “green home” pulled up more than 15,000 book titles. Who has time to read them all?
To aide homeowners in their search, The Green Home interviewed Eric Corey Freed, the author of “Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies,” and asked him to distill this growing cottage industry of green advice into five must-do steps.
One important step includes simply unplugging “vampire loads” when they are not in use. “Vampire loads” are anything with a ready light, such as DVRs, game systems, and plasma TVs. Freed noted that “collectively, vampire loads cost Americans $3 billion a year.” He suggested unplugging them or purchasing a smart power strip so you can shut off the electronics automatically.
To read all five steps, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/garden/12greenhome.html?_r=1.
Source: New York Times
Also, Eric Corey Freed will be a speaker at Green Cities Florida! (http://greencities.com/usa/florida/orlando/2009)
Meet Your 70 Female Eco Heroes
March 31, 2009
Recently GLAMOUR Magazine profiled 70 green minded women in the piece “Meet Your 70 Eco Heroes”.
Who are they? What do they do?
The list includes:
- Alicia Silverstone – actress, activist and author of The Kind Diet
- Kathy Loftus – global energy manager of Whole Foods Market
- Irmelin DiCaprio – CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
- Sara Snow – green living expert for CNN.com
- Diane MacEachern – CEO of Big Green Purse
Click here for the full list of Eco Heroes: http://www.glamour.com/magazine/2009/03/meet-your-70-eco-heroes.
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