For many of us, travel is a fact of life during the holidays, and with a bit of planning, you can make sure your holiday travel plans are a little bit better for the planet. Over at Earth and Industry, Tim wrote about a couple of airlines that are starting to use algae-based biofuels in their planes .

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How to Green Your Holiday Travel

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There are numerous benefits that come with heating your home with wood, some of which are obvious, and some not quite as prominent.

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4 Best Reasons to Use a Wood Stove

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While organizing her vinyl collection Katie Pietrak realized the black vinyl, colorful labels, and great artwork on the sleeves would make fantastic book covers and started making notebooks out of them.

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Vintage Vinyl: Recycled Record Sleeve Journals

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by Jade Evans One of the major incentives to becoming a one car household is not just that it greatly reduces your carbon footprint, but that it also saves you a huge amount of money – an estimated $60K per year, actually, which includes gas, insurance, maintenance and repair, among other factors. But I’ve got to be honest, becoming a one car family is not for everyone. There are a lot of factors that you need to take into consideration when you’re sharing a car, like the availability (and closeness) of public transport, what kind of commute you and your significant other have to take for work, and how compatible your schedules are.

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3 Keys to Sharing a Car

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We talk about advances in smart meters and energy monitoring technology all the time, but how much do you really know about how these devices really work? Smart meters have many advantages over traditional utility meters, and allow for much higher levels of energy efficiency when compared to older consumption tracking technologies

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Everything You Need To Know About Smart Meters

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Thanks to deceptive marketing practices, it’s sort of a buyer beware situation out there for anyone wanting to grow an organic food garden. It turns out that organic can be a bit of a gray area, and one savvy reader hipped us to a really interesting situation where that’s the case

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Is Ortho Elementals Organic?

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The following article was originally published in Yes! Magazine at this location . Other articles I've published in Yes! include: ” Ten Ways to Change Your Life ,” ” Fight Climate Change: Live the Good Life ,” and ” Christmas with No Presents .” So many of us have good ideas for helping the world

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Advice from an Accidental Activist

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If you’re a regular reader, you’ll probably have noticed that I haven’t been posting here lately.  So I thought I’d tell you about what’s been keeping me away from blogging here. No time to read this?  Then please just click on over here to see what I’m doing now

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Recently, I gave a talk in Chattanooga, Tennessee at the Girls Preparatory School. The talk was more or less about how the world is in so much trouble that it needs every sort of talent and passion in order to help it

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Becoming your real self to help the world

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The No Impact Experiment is a one-week carbon cleanse that starts on Sunday, August 29th.

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Join thousands doing the Sierra Club No Impact Week–Starting 9/29

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