Sierra Club Green Home’s Jennifer Schwab to serve as a Weekly Blog Contributor to The Huffington Post! 

Jennifer Schwab, Director of Sustainability for Sierra Club Green Home, will be featured as an ongoing contributor to The Huffington Post, reaching 4.2 million readers each week, with articles highlighting her expertise and knowledge across a wide range of topics pertaining to sustainable practices and green living. In addition to her work with Sierra Club G... Read More

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Do these places make your list?

The New 7 Foundation released 28 finalists for the 7 Wonders of Nature contest, voted on by the public. Below are brief descriptions and images of some of the best-known finalists.

The Amazon... Read More

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One of the biggest issues that we seem to face in shifting our attention from traditional fossil fuel based energy systems to alternatives appears to come from our expectations of change.  For thousands of years mankind has experienced minimal and gradual change.  Major improvements were things like the wheel, the plow, and the printing press.  For extended periods very little changed.

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From taking a bath to watering your lawn

What do you do with the water that remains after a long, hot bath? Send it down the drain, most likely. Before you pull the plug in your bathtub, consider reclaiming the sudsy but still valuable H2O to water your lawn. Sound strange? It’s not. Millions of Americans are reusing their “graywater” everyday to water their landscape, saving gallons of water and pocketfuls of money.

Simple graywater-reuse systems are used to collect wate... Read More

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It’s hot as heck this summer in the Southwest, and water rationing has gone into effect in many communities.  For those of us who were careful with water usage over the past couple years, reducing consumption even more is a challenge.  Especially since the new higher rates are based on previous years’ usage, so, if you were on the edge already, what to do now without going into the “red zone”?

I like clean cars, lush green landscapi... Read More

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