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HERE’S how to make your home more energy efficient, save money and reduce your carbon footprint:
1. Swap lightbulbs
REPLACE old-style bulbs with energy-efficient ones. They are more expensive (around pounds 1 each), but can last up to 10 times longer and use far less electricity.
2. Scrape the plate
RESEARCH shows that a third [...]

It may be the season of kindness and generosity, but there’s a civil war raging within the Christmas-tree industry.
Artificial-tree companies have been known to perpetuate the myth that once-living Christmas trees contribute to deforestation. Tree farmers love to point out that the first artificial Christmas trees resembled large green toilet-bowl brushes. And a third [...]

Grandma
- Avoided meat because it was too expensive.
- Walked most places.
- Bought vegetables and fruits from neighbors’ farms.
- Reused tinfoil.
- Used vinegar for cleaning because it was cheap and did the trick.

Granddaughter

- Avoids meat because she’s a vegetarian.
- Drives a hybrid car.
- Buys locally grown food at [...]

The campaign will get rolling on NBC’s pregame show, Football Night in America, which leads into the national broadcast of the Cowboys-Redskins game at 8:15 p.m.

NBC Universal will use its NFL franchise to kick off its second annual Green Week, a multiplatform programming and community affairs initiative designed to drive awareness of eco-friendly lifestyle and [...]

BRIDESMAIDS’ GIFTS
Create a nice basket for the special women in your bridal party with gifts that give back to others and that do not harm our environment.
The Organic Babassu Soaps, $18 at Natural Territory, are a fair-trade item made by a cooperative of women in the Brazilian Amazon.
World of Good donates 10 percent of profits [...]