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Greening Your Home With The EPA

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 by Kyle Scribner


Green Among Gray has always tried to help average homeowners shrink their footprint and save money right where they spend it the most: at home.

In the past, I’ve offered tips on measuring your home’s energy use, how to get tax credits for energy improvements, and utilizing energy-efficient mortgages.

And now, the EPA has collected information on all this, plus a lot more, in one handy spot: EPA.gov/GreenHomes. Here, the EPA makes it easy “to find clear, consolidated, readily accessible, and credible information” on going green in and around your home.

Every room of the house is covered, from learning the best ways to conserve water in the bathroom, to cutting energy use of your kitchen appliances, eliminating Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from your bedroom furniture and carpets, and using environmentally friendly cleaners in your living room.

EPA’s GreenHomes site also has info for renters, such as the best ways to find green units for rent, and a boatload of other info, including a glossary of green terms and how to keep your yard a low-footprint area.

Check it out, maybe as you’re digesting your Thanksgiving feast. Then when you host next year, maybe you’ll do it in much greener surroundings.

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Kyle Scribner is a born-again nature freak who also happens to be an editor at Captivate Network.

You know that exhilarated feeling you got as a kid when you would go down to the pond to catch frogs? It never really goes away; it’s just dormant. So I'm here to slap a mix of facts and borderline balanced opinion on you, to poke a stick at the nature freak slumbering in us all and maybe get him to once again come out and play.

And we might even learn a few things about the environment as we go.

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How do you commune with nature or become part of the solution to the environmental crisis when you're trapped in a cement-and-glass, gas-guzzling, power-sucking, emissions-spewing metropolis 8 hours (or more) a day? How do you go 'green' in a world of gray?

Actually, there are plenty of ways, and Green Among Gray aims to show high-rise inhabitants how they can help ease the load on the environment and on their minds by exploring natural oases, conservation tips, and other ways to stay green while working in the concrete-built world of the big city.

Look for short updates on the latest environmental news along with periodic longer features on specific places and events that allow big-city workers to get close to nature.