All Entries in the "Eco-Friendly" Category
HGTV Green Home
The new 2009 Home and Garden TV (HGTV) Green Home has been built. The Green Home has many eco-friendly and green features from a Green “Living” Roof to Energy Star appliances. You can enter to win this home right here on our Green Earth Friend Weblog or go directly to HGTV Green Home Sweepstakes. [...]
New Green Projects, Programs & Resources For The USA
Have you ever wondered what your particular state and county in the United States of America is doing to be green or become more sustainable and help the environment? Here is an inclusive list by state and county, with links to those programs and resources, that are environmentally friendly and their plans to add green projects to that state. [...]
Environmental Programs
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ENRIN – Capacity Building
Central & Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia
Policy development and planning for sustainable development and coherent environmental management demands information, national data and knowledge of the state of the environment. As assessments and analyses become multi-sectoral, the degree of complexity generates the need for integrated information. These products in turn require organizational [...]
TerraCab: Emission-Free Pedi-Cabs
New eco-friendly TerraCabs are set out to serve the public free of charge beginning Earth Day 2009 in an effort to reduce transportation congestion and pollution in downtown areas.
There’s no secret to getting people to go green [...]
Greenest Museum In The World
The California Academy Of Sciences in Golden Gate Park , San Francisco, is one of the greenest buildings in the world. The roof contains over a million different species of plant life. The green roof insulates the building, keeping it warm in the winter and cool in the summer. When it rains, the roof absorbs the water, bringing [...]
First Jatropha Powered Jumbo Jet Lands
Today history has been made by Air New Zealand in the first flight powered by Jatropha. Jatropha, an up and coming second generation biofuel, that does not take away from food crops, was used in a 50/50 mix of Jatropha and jet fuel. [...]
Eco Toilets: The Real Scoop On The Poop!
When considering Eco Toilets, there are a couple of different types to consider. There are composting and electric eco toilets. The composting version is a composting reactor. The poop (feces) and the urine are separated and the poop starts the composting process. Normally, there is some fungus and [...]
7 Tips On Green Gift Wrapping
Whether you are wrapping gifts for the holidays or any other time of the year, it is still easy to be Green! Here are some green gift wrapping ideas to be an Eco-wrapper:[...]
How To Build A Sustainable Bamboo Fence
Bamboo is a material that can be used in hundreds of applications where wood was used. It is considered both sustainable and renewable because of it’s quick growth rate and durability. Bamboo can be used for fencing, flooring, boat building, fly fishing rods, wall paper, bridges and hundreds of other uses. Bamboo has also been [...]
Green Roofs: An Eco-Friendly Concept
Green roofs are Eco-friendly and great for the environment. The concept is simple and easy to accomplish on most all roof tops. Most big cities, when seen from above, are black or dark gray roads and rooftops, converting the area into a heat absorbing environmental hazard. Instead of what was once trees and grass taking sunlight and C02 [...]
