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Is it possible to make your home green?
Whether you're looking to make your home "green" to help the environment, be more cautious about chemicals getting into your body, or simply to save some money, there are many ways to go about it.
Ten Tips for Clean and Green Boating
Prevent oily discharges from the bilge. Keep your engine well tuned to prevent fuel and oil leaks. Secure an oil absorbent pad or pillow in your bilge and under your engine where drips may occur. Check the pads often, do not let them clog the bilge pump, and dispose of them as hazardous waste at a marina or local hazardous waste collection center<br>Spill-proof your oil changes. For oil changes, use an oil change pump to transfer oil to a spill-proof container. Wrap…
How Green Are Your Products?
Rising concern with climate change and global warming has created an awareness and preference to use green products. Do you know how green your products are<br>There are two levels to assess a green product - how it was made and its impact on the environment during and after use or application. A green product not only poses no threat to the environment or people, it also has direct and indirect positive benefits on the environment.<br>As an example, green coatings have a…
FAQ: Why Are My Faucets Turning Green?
If your faucets or other plumbing piping is turning green, it's time to check your water quality. A local Coventry CT water specialist can help.
How to make green brands press consumer buttons
They must tick the price, quality and green boxes. But they need to be desirable too…
How Brands Can Help Consumers Green Up Their Act
As consumer demand for sustainable products has risen, brands have become greener. But are greener products and marketing enough to change how consumers behave?
How to Achieve "Green" Desalination
In one of the most remarkable turnarounds ever achieved in the face of a natural resource crisis, Israel has overcome a looming fresh water shortage in less than a decade. The country now has such a large water surplus that it can sell significant amounts to its parched neighboring countries.
What will it take for brands to deliver on the promise of greener chemicals?
That momentum behind green chemistry in the 1990s has never waned, but it’s never exactly exploded either. Is that about to change?
Why Is My Creek Green? Fertilizers Could be to Blame
Fertilizers contain large amounts of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous that can wash into ponds, lakes, streams and other local waterways leading to eutrophication. This causes the overgrowth of aquatic plants primarily in the form of an algae bloom turning our creeks and streams green. The rapid increase in unwanted…
Green Plumbing Tips : Jim Lavallee Plumbing
There are so many ways to go green with your home, but few present more opportunity than your plumbing. Not only will green plumbing lower utility costs in the long run, but it will certainly make your home and the environment healthier<br>Needless to say, a home’s plumbing covers a wide range of categories, from the drainage and pipes to the water heater, toilets and sewer main. As such, there are plenty of ways to go green with plumbing.<br>Green Plumbing Costs<br>Prices…
What Zymergen’s IPO says about 'biofacturing' and green chemistry
The company’s proposed manufacturing process uses biological buildings blocks, rather than petroleum-based chemicals. But so far, that’s still an aspiration.
How 'green chemistry' could have a big part to play in the future
CNBC's Sustainable Energy takes a look at how chemistry can take its cues from nature.
How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D
AstraZeneca, Agilent and others are working with the organization to shrink the carbon footprint and waste of the world's research labs.
College Students School Industry on How to Make Greener Products
UC Berkeley’s Greener Solutions program offers students the chance to develop environmentally friendly solutions to toxic problems.
How to Create a Safer and More Sustainable Lab Through Green Chemistry
Knowing How to Read the Labels of Cleaning Products
More and more people are turning to green cleaning for their house hold and work areas. A growing amount [...]
Green Tips: Bathroom Tips
The average person uses more water in the bathroom than anywhere else in the home. Save water and money with a few simple adjustments. Get more water conserv...
What is greenwashing? How to spot (& avoid) brands doing it
Greenwashing is, sadly, a sustainability buzzword you're likely all too familiar with. Also known as 'green sheen', it's a term bandied around the
10 tips to help reduce your exposure to BPA
Posted Jul 10, 2014 by Stephanie Moram, Good Girl Gone Green in Find Safer Products<br>BPA and other toxic chemicals that can be found in our food and products are at levels dangerous enough to be concerned with and we need to encourage companies to ditch the chemicals in our products<br>What is BPA?<br>(Photo Credit: nerissa’s ring via photopin cc)<br>BPA is one of the most common chemicals to which we are exposed in our everyday life. It is the building block…
A designer’s guide to green product certifications
As we’ve accepted that what’s better for the Earth is often better for humans too, consumers and designers alike increasingly seek out products that meet ve...
Does green label = green product? It should.
