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Clean Up Your Ride During National Car Care Month By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Mar 14 2008 Mark your calendars, motorists: April is National Car Care Month, and The Vinegar Institute has joined the Car Care Council to offer advice on how to make your vehicle sparkle and shine using the humble condiment. Bumper stickers: If you're ready to part with your once-prized bumper stickers, saturate the tops and... + READ MORE

Save Energy With Awnings By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Mar 10 2008 A hundred years ago, awnings were common on hotels, office buildings, and the grandest of houses, for a very good reason: they shaded the window and kept the heat of the sun out. + READ MORE

Get Tax Credits for Going Green By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 6 2008 Although most of us cringe at the thought of tax season, Uncle Sam may look favorably upon you if you've made energy-saving improvements to your home within the past two years. New energy-efficient windows, added ceiling insulation, and a new high-efficiency air conditioner or water heater can all add up to a... + READ MORE

Do Something Green on February 29th By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Feb 20 2008 My daughter was born in late February in a leap year; I thought it would be fun if she was born on the 29th, it would make a quarter of her birthdays really special and perhaps save on presents, but alas, my wife could not hang on and she was born five days too soon. + READ MORE

Green Your Home for Winter: Apply Low-E Window Film By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 12 2008 If you haven't socked away enough money for new, energy-efficient windows-or you're a renter who doesn't have the latitude to make major home improvements-consider applying one of several types of window film to your panes for instant energy savings. Apply the low-E film to the inside pane of your window to trap heat... + READ MORE

Green My Media: Download Movies for Free By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Feb 4 2008 MyLibraryDV is a 24/7 video-on-demand service created by Recorded Books, in partnership with public libraries across the United States. All you need to access free Hollywood movies (caveat: nothing fairly recent), network and cable TV programming (including Antiques Roadshow, America's Test Kitchen, and Rick Steves'... + READ MORE

Save Ink, Money, Planet with GreenPrint By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Jan 29 2008 We've covered plenty of money- and paper-saving printing tricks in the past, including printing on both sides of each sheet and narrowing your Word document margins. Here's another one for Windows PCs: GreenPrint World, a free downloadable app that highlights and strips away unnecessary pages, such as images you'd... + READ MORE

Minimize Fuel Consumption in Wintry Weather By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Jan 14 2008 When the mercury plummets, you car's fuel efficiency can drop by rates of up to 50 percent, according to The Green Guide.Scrape snow and ice off: Because the extra burden of piled snow can reduce fuel economy, be sure to scrape the frost off all windows, mirrors and lights, the hood, the roof, and around the tires. + READ MORE

Send, Receive Faxes Online By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Jan 11 2008 In July 2007, green-lifestyle guru Danny Seo asked if the fax machine was obsolete. When a fax is absolutely necessary, Seo relies on tree-free online faxing, which converts in and outbound documents to electronic images, before transmitting them through e-mail. + READ MORE

Build a Cat Tree By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 7 2008 A fallen tree can be salvaged into a climbing post your kitty can really sink its claws into. To assemble your au naturale cat tree, saw off the trunk of a sturdy piece of branched wood so that it forms a flat surface.Next, find a 1 1/2-inch piece of wood wide enough to act as a stable base and curb any wibbly wobbling. + READ MORE

Build A Green Kitchen By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 28 2007 Want to build a green kitchen? Use finger-jointed trim (where small pieces of wood are joined together to form a long length of trim).2. + READ MORE

Design a Sustainable Gingerbread House By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Dec 19 2007 Thanks to our sister site TreeHugger, we see that sustainably designed gingerbread houses are all the rage these days. What better way to learn a thing or two about how green buildings work than doing a little research-we recommend National Resources Defense Council's green building section or tips from HGTV Pro's... + READ MORE

Make a Difference, One Instant Message at a Time By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Dec 19 2007 Earn money for your favorite cause each time you zip off an instant message on the latest incarnation of MSN Messenger, now rebranded Windows Live Messenger. While it isn't clear what percentage this so-called portion represents, each nonprofit is doled a minimum of 00,000, without any cap on a maximum. ::Windows... + READ MORE

Detox Your Home: Assemble a Green Cleaning Kit By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 18 2007 What's not to love about mixing your own cleaning products from tried-and-tested formulas? Oven Cleaner 1 cup or more baking sodawaterA squirt or two of liquid detergent Sprinkle water generously over the bottom of the oven, then cover the grime with enough baking soda that the surface it totally white. + READ MORE

Green Your Home Office By Lloyd Alter IN Work & Connect Dec 18 2007 Working from home is already green, as you save so much fuel getting to and from work. In winter, reduce your heating and wear a little extra clothing instead. ::Freelanceswitch See also: Conduct an Office Waste Audit Difficulty Level: Easy + READ MORE

Join the Garbage Revolution By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 17 2007 Garbage! They cost more to buy but save you 10 times the original cost and not get thrown in the trash. + READ MORE

Detox Your Home: Detect, Remove Lead Paint By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 10 2007 Sorry, parental units, but discovering traces of lead in your kids' toys is the least of your problems with this neurotoxin. Wash and wipe down surfaces: Meanwhile, wet-mop floors and wipe windows and other contaminated surfaces with trisodium phosphate or another high-phosphate detergent-note, however, that although... + READ MORE

Detox Your Home: Freshen Your Space Naturally By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 5 2007 Your air freshener may be primed to whisk you off to an alpine meadow in springtime or a verdant oasis after a rain shower, but it could also be blasting a raft of toxic contaminants all around you. DEP: di-ethyl phthalate; DBP: di-n-butyl phthalate; DIBP: di-isobutyl phthalate; DMP: di-methyl phthalate; DIHP:... + READ MORE

Green Your Home for Winter: Install Faucet Aerators By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 3 2007 If you put electrical tape around your pliers you will avoid scratching it. I am frankly surprised that such a little step does this much at all, but by mixing air with water you use less water and that means less water heating.Some aerators have an on/off lever so that you can stop most of the water flow without... + READ MORE

Green Your Home For Winter: Weatherize Your Windows By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Nov 26 2007 We have been listing the things you should do to prepare your home for winter, in order of bang for your buck, as determined by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), which figured out the cost in dollars per ton of carbon saved for each investment you make in time and money. Apply the window film: A four-step process:... + READ MORE