When it comes to living green, a major component is your actual house or apartment. Making sure your dwelling is green includes the materials used to build your home, (a long story in itself) and another issue is home size. When it comes to green homes, smaller is better if you’d like to lower your footprint. The last component of green housing is the community you live in.

Community and where you live in said community goes a long way toward being or not being green. If your home is green, but in a terribly un-green community or you live so [...]

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Find your best green community

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Pesticides and other harmful chemicals you put on your lawn are not only detrimental to the air, water, and soil (i.e. the whole flipping planet) but the health of your family and community. The pesticides you use for lawn care don’t stay on your lawn. You and your family drag them into the house on your shoes. Pets run through the lawn and spread the pesticides. And particles drift off into the neighborhood. Yay! Instead, keep it green and healthy by reducing your overall use of pesticides – in fact, many people don’t use any pesticides at all.

Here’s how to [...]

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Seven tips for a pesticide free lawn

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Sony has developed a new type of lithium ion batteries that combine long-life high power performances, using olivine-type lithium iron phosphate as the cathode material. The Olivine-type lithium iron phosphate used in this new battery is a perfect cathode material due to its robust crystal structure and stable performance, even at high temperatures.

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