Environmental Issues Articles

If you live or work in a traditionally built home or office building, you know the construction is not energy-efficient.

The average North American uses more than 730 pounds of paper each year. That's as much as a tree as big around as a utility pole standing 4 stories high.

The Green movement has seen a considerable evolution since the early 70s. Those momentous years of the Peace Movement, Vietnam War and the twilight zone of hippie culture, building Green was still emerging. Open a brochure of Green Home designs fr

Now more than ever, people are looking for environmentally friendly companies and are voting with their wallets, so to speak. The first and the most obvious problem with normal hosting companies are, they use lots of electricity. The first thing a "green" hosting company does is to power their servers, coolers, offices etc using "green electricity". Green electricity is generated using renewable resources, mostly using wind turbines and solar panels.

Building a Green house is challenging and may well burn a hole in your pocket. A green house typically costs 0.5 % to 6.5% higher than a standard dwelling. Thus, from a pure pragmatic point of view, it perhaps feels foolish to incur additional cost

A well water filter is a must have addition to your home if your drinking weater source is a well. Since a well works by gathering water from a groundsource there is always a chance that some unsavoury substances have made their way into your water.

Our Planet is facing dramatic changes owing to the accelerated rate of human development and indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources. Global warming is just one such warning sign that the delicate global ecosystem is very near the tipping sc

Green home building is very popular in the United States today, but many people do not know that Europeans have been building green homes for decades. We now have many technologies here in the United States that we consider to be new or innovative, b

As new information comes in, the global community becomes more and more concerned about the environment and energy conservation. And while America is focusing more on the environment than it used to (with its newly popular green home building initiat

As a people, our current wasteful lifestyles wont be sustainable for long. This is a fact that were becoming more and more aware of every day. Because of this, green home design is becoming a more and more mainstream part of the housing market. Some