3 Different Ways To Find Environmental News
What are your options for reading environmental news? How can I get a well rounded perspective on things that are happening in the world? Most people stick with one news source for their information. In order to get a more balanced or accurate perspective on green news and related information, it's a good idea to have a few different and differing sources of news and information. Here are three very different sources for your news
Get That Green Home In 2010 — 5 Tips To Start You Out
It's a great dream -- a self-sustaining house that can provide for all its own power needs and exist entirely impact-free. We're not there yet, but like anything, small steps add up to big change. Looking for some simple-but-effective ways to make your home greener in 2010? Check out these 5 simple ways to start.
Sustainable Swimming Pool
Sustainability is a serious issue, not a fad that can be taken lightly, and it cannot be achieved by lip service alone. Affordability and implement ability are key factors, not the least because without these it would all be only preaching and not practice, which is why real sustainability has a social responsibility component to it. In our industry of swimming pool design and construction, the established practices are so deeply embedded that sustainability will require change at grass root level: the way we think about designing and running pools. Little tweaks or fine tuning won't cut it, although trying to run existing facilities in a better way certainly would. Truly sustainable practices will require more than the perceived notion of selecting green materials, it will require more labour inputs than do the "efficient" industrial practices we're now used to and there will naturally be issues of scale.
