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Carbon Offsetting

Today's Eco-tip is about carbon offsetting. Carbon Offsetting is a way of cutting your carbon emissions by investing in clean energy certificates. These certificates come in the form of "wind certificates" or "green tags," which represent clean power that you can add to the nation's energy grid in place of electricity from fossil fuels. Basically these companies use your funds to build, research and produce alternative forms of energy.For more information, check out the carbon offse... READ MORE Posted August 02, 2010 at 11:17 AM

POWER OPTIONS

Today's Eco-tip is about hibernation. No, I am not talking about bears sleeping through the winter, I am referring to hibernation mode in computers. For the sake of this tip, I am going to assume that you are one of the 95% of people in the world who uses the Microsoft windows operating system, if you are not, thats ok, we have a link for you at the bottom. So, what is hibernation? Hibernation is basically a process in which Windows will take a picture of your current desktop and all of your ... READ MORE Posted April 19, 2010 at 10:37 AM

Radiant Barriers

A radiant barrier is a material with a very low emissivity and high reflectivity giving it the ability to virtually stop the transfer of radiant heat or thermal conductivity. This allows the radiant barrier to reduce heat gain in the summer and heat loss in the winter, thus reducing the net heating and cooling needs of the structure. While radiant barriers are effective in both hot and cold climates, they are far more effective when installed in attics in hot climates where they can reduce su... READ MORE Posted January 26, 2010 at 07:22 AM