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Atlanta-based Beazer homes is now offering more eco-friendly options for home building. You will now be able to choose from many new eco-friendly programs and building techniques such as energy-efficient low-e windows, dual flush toilets, home radiant barrier and supplementary ventilation. It's nice to hear tat everyone is considering the...

Unless you're careful about how you discard or recycle your old electronics such as computers and fridges, you may sadly be adding to a growing problem in Africa. ABC.com recently revealed that electronics that have been tossed away from developed nations like the US, UK and Germany, are apt to end up in Africa where they poison children with toxins such as lead, cadmium and mercury. To read more on this developing story, click here and be...

If you find yourself in Berlin on bike, don't forget you can get a green discount at Germany's first eco-friendly brothel. Yep, that's right.  If you arrive by bike or public transit, you will receive a $7.50 discount for a 30-minute tryst. According to the owner of the brothel, Thomas Goetz, this kind of promotion "is something never seen before in this business in Berlin." Well, that's probably...

A two-year technical college located in Nelsonville, Ohio has been training their students since 1968 for jobs in the manufacturing sector, but back in 2002 that changed a bit. Hocking College saw the growth in alternative energy jobs in 2002 and created the Energy Institute which offers training in both advanced energy and fuel cells.  The school's newly completed 12,200 square-foot building is on track to actually become Ohio's very...

The top five air-powered vehicles known to man are headed for the US, beware. Powered by using a compressed air engine alongside an electric motors, these eco-friendly vehicles are the perfect vehicles for the green-minded and they're soon to be right in your...

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