Environmental and Home Energy Blog

Propane v Natural Gas: The Facts & How You Can Use Both

Propane and natural gas are two gas fuels commonly used for cooking and heating. While many people see it as propane vs natural gas, the gasses are similar in many ways. However, they also have a number of important differences as well. One major difference is in the way [...]

2024-06-18T04:03:44-04:00October 24th, 2018|

How to Upcycle Clothes: A Beginner’s Guide

Remember how your grandma was an expert at turning something old into something new and useful? Well, she was what we’d call a master at upcycling! Upcycling is essentially turning something old or used into something new, useful, or even pretty. Just to give you an idea, upcycling clothes [...]

2024-02-28T14:17:23-05:00October 17th, 2018|

How To Live Zero Waste: A Beginner’s Guide

It’s no secret: landfill waste is an enormous problem for the earth. The amount of trash we throw away that doesn’t decompose presents a great threat to our environment by producing noxious gases and contaminating groundwater and surface water. Animals are also affected as they feed off the garbage [...]

2024-02-28T14:11:05-05:00October 10th, 2018|

12 Eco-Friendly Clothing Brands You’ll Love to Wear

You may think that the clothes you wear have little impact on the environment, but you’d be wrong. Almost 25% of all insecticides and 10% of pesticides used on the planet are applied to cotton crops, even though they make up less than 3% of crops worldwide. Thankfully, there [...]

2024-06-18T04:10:55-04:00September 19th, 2018|

What is Solar Paint and How Does it Work?

Solar paint, also known as photovoltaic paint, is perhaps one of the most interesting concepts available in the solar power market. However, while it has been shown that solar paint does work as described and it’s been improved by various institutes and universities, it’s not quite a commercial product [...]

2024-11-08T00:57:21-05:00September 12th, 2018|

E-Waste Recycling

Considering the number of toxic substances and heavy metals in most cell phones, TVs, computers, etc., recycling electronics isn’t as easy as it should be.  In fact, according to the United Nations, 44.7 million tons of e-waste was discarded in 2016, and only 20 percent of it was discarded [...]

2024-06-18T04:13:34-04:00September 5th, 2018|

The Future of Transportation

Gone are the days of getting around on horseback, as our ancestors once did. Today, due to the widespread geographic layout of many rural and also urban cities, we are more than ever reliant on different modes of transportation. Unfortunately, most methods of transportation are responsible for air pollution [...]

2024-06-18T04:12:49-04:00August 29th, 2018|
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