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Celebrate Energy Awareness Month
In 2011, President Obama and the Department of Energy established October as National Energy Awareness Month. Given the importance of energy to both our economy and environment, this month is a time to focus on how we’re using energy in our homes and businesses. Many of us grew up in an era of inexpensive energy,
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Healthy Ways to Clean Your Home
Our obsession with cleanliness has created a multi-billion dollar industry of a plethora of cleaning products for every surface. Rather than using good old-fashioned “elbow grease,” we have a vast array of chemical solvents to ease our cleaning burden, but in the process we have unwittingly created a toxic condition in our homes. We have
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Natural Body Care Products
The cosmetics and personal care industry includes thousands of products, many of which we use on our bodies daily. And it’s indeed very personal. Many people – especially women – have a deep belief that they need to use products to enhance their beauty and personal appeal. But while these products can have a positive
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Pay the Farmer, Not the Doctor
“You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard this, and yet most of us never read the ingredients in the foods we eat. And if we do, we have little awareness of whether the ingredients are harmful or not. Our bodies are amazingly resilient, and can survive repeated exposure to unhealthy substances. And yet we
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The New Good Life
In thinking about how to live a more sustainable lifestyle, many of us are drawn to a simpler lifestyle. It is thought that some of the happiest people are those that live with less, like the story of the Mexican fisherman. In this story, an American tourist coaches a the Mexican on how he could
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City Seeks to be “Solar Capital of the Universe”
The sun is relentless in the high desert town of Lancaster, California. This city, with a population of just over 150,000 people, is located about an hour north of Los Angeles in the Antelope Valley region. It is the home of Edwards Air Force Base, where space shuttles have often landed long after the speed
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