Rock-E-Tarian: Chrissie Hynde’s Organic Ohio
Any of you old enough to remember the classic rock tune “My City Was Gone” by the Pretenders? Like singer Chrissie Hynde, I go back to Ohio, but my city (Akron, aka The Rubber City) is not gone. Can you imagine my surprise to find a great organic restaurant, VegiTERRANEAN, by none other than Chrissie Hynde herself, on my last visit?
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Eva Longoria: A Celeb Who’s Green Beyond the Rhetoric
These days it’s fashionable for celebrities to hitch their stars to the green movement. Many of them claim to be green, but in my experience, only a few are really doing substantive things to back up the PR flackery. Ed Begley Jr. rides a stationary bike each morning to power his coffee-maker, admittedly on the lunatic fringe.
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Green Fuel Gone Residential
Fuel cell technology is an emerging form of clean energy that seems to be within reach for consumers. The main drawback is in the costly expenses associated with the units, in comparison to conventional fossil fuel systems. Fuel cell systems have proven to produce at least twice as much energy and little to no pollution, unlike their ‘dirty fuel’ counterparts.
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Residential Wind Turbines
Small-scale wind turbines have become a viable, if not yet mainstream, means of powering homes with clean, renewable energy. You’ve probably seen clusters of huge wind turbines in rural areas. Those wind farms produce power for the utility grid. A residential wind turbine is much smaller, and rather than multiple turbines, a home typically has just one.
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Are your home energy bills out of hand? Does your house feel drafty even when you crank up the heat? Have you been dragging your feet on giving your home an energy-efficiency tune-up because you don’t know where to start? Watch this home energy audit video and then click to read how a home energy audit could start you on the path to having a green home.
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