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Greener consumer electronics emerge at CES

From Green Right Now Reports The modern consumer’s penchant for buying the latest electronic gadget has certainly contributed mountains to landfills worldwide and led to other ecological sins, from...

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Lowes wins top Energy Star award

From Green Right Now Reports Who sells more Energy Star appliances than anyone? Well, we don’t know. Stores typically won’t reveal their sales figures, which they consider to be proprietary. But if...

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Nitpicking with Lowe’s

By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now We are often hardest on those we like. It’s because our disappointment is somehow greater when we’ve been conditioned to expect better. Like when your once cuddly...

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EPA and DOE strengthen Energy Star testing and certification process

From Green Right Now Reports Following criticism that it was too easy for manufacturers to get an Energy Star label, and that some appliances had slipped through the system with less-than promised...

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Be part of the solution: Save water at home

By Melissa Segrest Green Right Now The world’s water supply needs protection on all sides. Industrial pollution and human waste contaminate water supplies across the globe, while chemical- and...

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Data centers can now earn Energy Star label

From Green Right Now Reports Data centers, those energy-consuming machinery hives that keep the Internet and so much else aloft, can now earn an Energy Star label. To receive the Energy Star...

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Get your ducts in a row

By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now You can hear them rattle in the winter, and rumble in the summer. Whether they’re underfoot or overhead in the attic, these unseen monsters can really make a...

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Upgrade to an energy-efficient laundry room

By Melissa Segrest Green Right Now How old are your washer and dryer? If you can’t remember, odds are they’re nearing their golden years: Washers last about 11 years and dryers about 12, according to...

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Give greener electronics this holiday season

By Bill Sullivan Green Right Now If you are looking at the big picture, the Samsung UN55C8000 delivers 55 inches of view. Image: Samsung If visions of a new computer, an upgraded cell phone or a flat...

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Push back progress on light bulbs? Not a bright idea

By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Rep. Joe Barton’s last bright idea – to apologize to BP for having to make reparations for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – earned him national ridicule. His...

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How to pick an energy efficient washer and dryer — our 2013 update

By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now The washer and dryer section has become like the candy corner of Big Boxes. Shiny  machines shimmer in red, blue and silver enamels, bearing proud crests of insanely...

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Why you can feel a little less guilty about your big screen TV

Green Right Now Reports As they’ve stretched from four- to five- to six-feet wide, big screen TVs have become the butt of jokes and a symbol of Western excess. Thankfully, our ever-enlarging TVs have...

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