RetroChic: Vintage style suits you

emily — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:58:21 -0700

Getting Off the Carbon Runway with Vintage Style and Resale Couture

Read the global label

emily — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:12:33 -0700

Here is a challenge to you that will help solve the climate crisis: lower the CO₂ emissions of your appliances and electronics by up to 50% by buying the most efficient ones available. Be sure to ask your retailer how its products stack up against your country's efficiency ratings. For more information about how to understand product efficiency ratings, read on.

Cool threads

emily — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:44:26 -0700

Most of the energy consumed by your washing machine is used just to warm the water. If you usually use hot water for your washing you can drop your energy consumption in half by choosing warm water, and up to 90% if you choose cold. That leads to significant reductions in global warming pollutants that are created either directly in your house by your oil or natural gas water heater or by the power plant that supplies your electric water heater.

Kansans for green laundry

emily — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:21:09 -0700

If you're in the market for a new washing machine, give thanks to the dirty laundry of tiny Bern, Kansas (population 210). When Maytag and the Office of Renewable Energy were looking for a place to test European-style front-loading washers on Americans born and bred to be top-loaders, they came to Bern. The study took background data on 103 conventional washers in and around the town, then gave them all new front-loaders, also called horizontal axis machines.