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Your Home: Before and After Greening We envisioned the following home remodels and fixes and the resulting reduction in carbon emissions and utility costs. In addition to our exclusive coupon offers, we also tracked down the rebates available to you now if you make your home more efficient. Check the...

The dark of night has an incredible impact on humans. It limits our vision and heightens our sense of vulnerability. Neighborhoods that are friendly, bustling or eclectic during the day become vacant no-walk zones after sundown. Fighting that embedded fear of the dark has led to extensive use of nighttime...

For all the joy they bring, Christmas lights have been a big energy hog for a long time. With each lighted, inflatable snow globe or 12-foot-tall Frosty the Snowman, the electric meter spins even faster. The good news is that technology is offering us a way to continue our blinking, multi-hued testament...

As I rode the bus to work, counting hybrid cars after listening to downloaded video clips from the Live Earth concert, the cultural shift that has pushed environmental awareness to an all-time high couldn’t have been clearer. We’re riding a big, green wave right now. People care about the environment...

How many Oregonians does it take to screw in an energy efficient light bulb? The answer is just one, and the results are big. Each standard bulb you replace with a compact fluorescent light will keep one ton of CO2out of the atmosphere and last long enough to save you the cost of purchasing 5 old-fashioned...