Recycling and Todays Teens

June 29, 2009

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Recycling has been around longer than any of today’s  young teens have been alive and maybe that’s why recycling has never ever been a question for them as to whether or not they should recycle but has always been more of a “How else can we help when recycling,” kind of thought process.   My very own generation, having grown up in the 70′s has a different mind-set.  In fact, I have to remind myself the reasons we recycle, when to recycle and how to keep my family and household up-to-date and aware of the reasons to recycle. Read more

Interesting Facts about Solar Energy

June 29, 2009

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There are lots of interesting facts about solar energy. Educating yourself about this will prove to be beneficial in the long run. You can share the information to your loved ones. You can teach them of ways on how they can help to conserve the energy. You can also do your share to help this method to advance if you are a genius in the field. But if you are an ordinary citizen who only wants to enjoy, then feast on. But remember that you also have responsibilities to the environment that you must accomplish in order to do your part in the whole scheme of things. Read more

Building Solar Panels At Home

June 25, 2009

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Going Solar? Planning to buy your very own solar panels! Why spend a few hundred dollars on purchasing them when you can make them at home at a much lesser cost with little effort. Here is how you can make it possible!

Raw Materials – It is quite easy to get hold of raw materials for creating your own solar panels. These may include broken solar cells, which are extremely cheap. Solar cells with amorphous silicon on glass are great, sturdy and easily reparable if broken. Indium Copper Selenide Cells are also easily available as tiles of glass.
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Visit Any Landfill

June 22, 2009

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For 43 years or so I’ve been someone who never really finished the thought; when I throw something away it goes…

I’ve given myself a very great gift this year; call it a field trip, if you like, but I took myself to my town’s landfill and had my eyes opened for the first time.  Maybe the concept of someone reaching their 40s and still not being contientious of recycling is one that sounds very far-fetched, well, it’s the truth.  I didn’t grow up imagining the Earth covered in over-flowing landfills, piles and piles of garbage as high as the tallest building that was not my experience.  But because the very idea of leaving too much waste for the Earth to handle is a bitter reality today, I’ve begun to educate myself.  Read more

Recycling To Keep Our Own Planet Healthy

June 15, 2009

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We’ve all heard all the warnings; acid rain, global warming, landfills without any room, and on and on.  We don’t recycle because it’s the “in” thing to do; we recycle because we don’t have any other options if we plan to leave the planet for many generations to come.  Read more

How To Surely Prevent The Excess

June 8, 2009

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The very idea of recycling is to reuse an item rather than toss it into the trash and have it end up filling space in a landfill, right?  Here’s a thought; why not have the waste in the first place?  Are you with me?  How can this be at all accomplished, you may be asking yourself, and that’s good because I have a few ideas I’d like to share. Read more

How To Start And Maintain A Good Compost Pile

June 1, 2009

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In today’s world, where the very idea of recycling is not an option, but a necessity, having your own compost pile is a great activity and resources in keeping with the mandatory recycle laws.  The bonuses of composting heavily outweigh any and all negative connotations compost piles have had to defend themselves against; mainly, the smell. Read more