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Western states' climate laws: the cost of inaction

If Western states don't substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they could face billions of dollars in health care and other related costs by 2020, according to reports by economists for the University of Oregon's Climate Leadership Initiative's Program on Climate Economics. Washington, Oregon and New Mexico will probably face associated annual costs of $3.8 billion, $3.3 billion and $3.2 billion by 2020, respectively, if they don't rein in greenhouse gas emissions, logging and other factors that drive climate change, according to reports released Monday.

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Starting An Organic Farm

Green Planet Catering Starts a Production Farm: Little Jerry Seinfield and Farm Fresh Eggs!

May 21, 2009 When i arrived on the farm on Wednesday we had a freshly mowed surrounding landscape, thanks to Chef Aaron, and 36 chickens! It's exciting to have a flock of dumb, yummy egg laying chickens around. Our rooster, who, for all Seinfield fans, i've started to call Little Jerry Seinfield, is very handsome and his ladies seem to be happy. They laid a dozen eggs as soon as they got there and haven't stopped since. It's pretty exciting to get your first fresh eggs. We've been using read more

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Green Planet Catering Starts a Production Farm: Cooped Up and Weeded

May 19, 2009 After dealing with ticks for the last few weeks, it's nice to see that Jason is having a chicken coop built. Our hope is that we not only have a natural way to get rid of bugs, weeds, and even create fertizlier but that we also have a source of eggs and meat when the time comes. Katie suggested we call it the Egg McMansion. I've spent all week weeding. It's not fun but it is part of the all natural practices that we're set on following. During a break i took a picture from b read more

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Energy

Energy Saving Cartoons and Tips

Saving energy is really easy, as long as you know what needs your attention. Who doesn\'t want to save energy? Saving energy is the perfect solution to an ever-growing energy bill. You will find new energy saving tips on this page every week. Milieunet offers you these tips for free to help you save energy! http://www.stichtingmilieunet.nl/energysavingtips.php When you act upon all the tips you can reduce your energy bill by 15 to 25 percent. That is easy money. You can save energy at h read more

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Produce

Greening your Life? Why a generation missed out on simple things in life and now we are re-learning it to save earth

While growing up in the country I was born in , in India, it never occurred to us that humans could cause so much damage to earth. We lived in nice homes but did not need a temperature controlled environment through out the house. During the hot Indian summers, we used khas khas ( a type of herb root that hold water well) made mats and hung them out side our windows and doors. We soaked them with water and the hot breeze coming through the doors and windows would cool down significantly making o read more

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Green House Gas Emissions

Are we confused yet? Are we comparing CO2 Apples with Global Warming Oranges?

Are we confused yet? Are we comparing CO2 Apples with Global Warming Oranges? When we talk of the global warming impact of CO2 and or CO2-e are we getting confused? When comparing or talking about distance, area, volume, weight and temperature, we compare same with same. In length 1 metres = 3.28 feet In distance 1 mile = 1.61 kilometres In area 1 square mile = 2.59 square kilometres In volume 1 gallon = 4.55 litres In weight 1 kilo = 2.2 pounds In temperature Celsius (C) to read more

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General

5 Simple Ways to "Going Green"

One of the main reasons that most people have trouble going green, is that it seems like a major lifestyle change. But in fact it is the most natural thing to do. Here are some 5 simple tips that will help you kick start your sustainability goals. 1. Start replacing the bulbs in your house by the energy efficient ones. This is one of the most often repeated advices. You will hear it everywhere and it is the most effective. These bulbs save up to 75% of your energy costs and last 10 time read more

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Why do we need to use green products?

Why do we need to use green products? read more

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