825 articles related to "environment"

Creating A Do It By Yourself Wind Generator - What You Need To Know Earlier Than Getting Going

I have unfortunately noticedthat there are a excellent variety of content articles out there focused to giving instructions concerning how to construct a residential wind generator at residence. Even more observation explains much if not the majority...

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Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Furniture - What is FSC Certification?

FSC certification for furniture is a good indication that the furniture has been independently evaluated and determined sustainable or eco-friendly, but what exactly does that mean? What is FSC? The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an independent...

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The Effects Of An Oil Spill

The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is creeping towards the ignominy of being the most devastating environmental catastrophe of its kind. Despite innumerable remedial efforts, thousands of barrels of oil are being spewed into the ocean each da...

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How To Find An Appropriate Gas Supplier

In the UK, the energy market is still as intense and competitive as it has always been as no gas supplier has yet gained a monopoly in UK market. When the European Union vegan deregulating gas suppliers in the UK in 1996, the energy market blew open ...

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How To Cut Down Your Refrigerator's Energy Consumption

Did you know that about 14% of your household energy bill is the energy used by your refrigerator? The old models of refrigerators with zero eco-friendly and zero efficient features can increase energy bill by as much as $280. By simply switching to ...

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Water Conservation - The Big Picture

Water Conservation at home, and in the way we live and consume, has taken on a new urgency in the last few years. One of the fundamental human needs, clean drinking water, can no longer be counted on to be available. Water shortages, polluted lakes, ...

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Why Do So Many Starve When There's Enough Land And Now Bio-Technology To Feed Us All?

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care according to article 25 of the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights. Fine words, bu...

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Solar Film - The Future of Renewable Energy?

Sun-powered electric options were once limited to large dark panels, but now consumers have a choice. In addition to panels of single or multi-crystal solar cells, solar film or thin film solar units are available in frames or in building materials s...

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Solar PV Panels and the Derating of Output

The capacity of a Solar PV Panel is as what is given in its name plate. The output will invariably be given in DC power output in watts. The watt output of an array of PV panels has to be converted to a practical unit which is kw (DC) and for this pu...

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DIY Wind Turbine Project

Before building a wind turbine, you need to understand some basic things. You need to know how wind is caused and how it's harnessed by wind generators. You need to know how those generators convert the energy that they capture into electricity....

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