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Achieve optimal energy efficiency with greener electronics
Greenpeace’s ‘Guide to Greener Electronics’ helps consumers keep tabs on which companies to support and which ones to avoid based on their eco-accomplishments. In the most recent report, fifteen companies were rated among 13 categories representing energy, greener products, and sustainable operations: Disclose own operational GHG emissions GHG emissions reductions and targets Clean electricity plan [...]
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Walk Score introduces a new urban ranking service – Bike Score
Chances are, you have an idea how your neighborhood scores in Walk Score ranking results. Now, you can check out how bikeable it is. Walk Score ranks neighborhoods based on ease of access to shops, recreational amenities, public transportation, safety and other factors that are important to frequent pedestrians. Starting with select targeted communities, Bike [...]
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Green living tips for intermediate tree huggers
You’re a seasoned recycler but not quit an extreme eco-warrior. What options do you have on the middle ground? Welcome to the incredibly awkward yet incredibly important stage known as the middle ground. Recycling has become second nature and you don’t second guess turning off the lights when they aren’t in use. You aren’t, however, [...]
Chicago apartments \ Chicago neighborhoods \ Green building \ Green Living \ U.S. Green Building Council
Meet the greenest members of the South Loop community
Caring about the environment and being eco-savvy is no longer just about recycling and hybrid cars. Reducing our carbon footprint is strongly tied to the choices we make every day, where we choose to shop, what we eat, or where we go to school. Eventually environmental stewardship requires a massive and combined effort. Chicago can [...]
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Urban Woods includes Sandy debris in sustainable design initiative
In a collective effort to protect the environment and show a little care for our health and wellbeing, many creative minds turn their attention to sustainable design and try to incorporate as many eco-friendly materials in their works as possible. Urban Wood Goods (UWG), a Chicago-based company, envisions a different future for the tons of [...]
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The greenest street in America is in Chicago
For more than 175 years, ‘City in a Garden’ has been Chicago’s motto, a suggestive phrase denoting the city’s commitment to creating a cleaner, greener, and sustainable environment. But every garden needs it alleys and the garden is now more of an asphalt jungle. In an effort to help communities reduce pollution and enhance the [...]
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Atlanta Hawks go from red to green
“Atlanta Hawks” conjures images of the red, mighty winged fowl soaring over a sea of black, a logo that Atlantans have known for ages. So if the thought of the Hawks going green makes you a bit nauseous, that’s understandable. Fortunately, the phrase isn’t literal. Sports fans can keep the red hawk logo while being [...]
Chicago apartments \ Green Living \ LEED
South Side’s new pearl, Harper Court earns LEED Gold
After years of planning and debate, change is actually visible in Chicago’s South Side. Continuing on the redevelopment path, entire neighborhoods such as Hyde Park, Woodlawn and North Kenwood/Oakland are seeing major improvement in terms of both infrastructure and housing. A new prime urban destination and an important part of South Side’s revitalization plan, Harper [...]
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Your green guide to wrapping
Holiday wrapping paper is such a nuisance. It’s so expensive and never seems to make it through a whole year in the close unscathed. It seems so useless, too, to buy all this new paper when we have so much old paper just lying around. Go with green wrapping this year, if not in color [...]
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Eco-friendly Christmas trees and décor
Yep, make this season a bit brighter and a bit jollier with these green touches. The winter holidays are all about consumption: buying, eating, wasting. It’s a bit of a shame, right? Fortunately, we don’t have to continue in that mindset. A few green items and accents can put some good will towards men (and [...]
Christmas and holiday season \ Green Living
How to have yourself a very merry green Christmas
A traditional Christmas is a staple of the holiday season for many people, but there’s one problem: Christmas creates a ton of waste. It doesn’t need to be that way! You can still enjoy a traditional Christmas with a fraction of the waste, here’s how: 1. Decorate a live tree. I think we can all agree [...]
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Upgrade these 5 appliances to save major space and cash
Multi-functional, eco-friendly appliances are the best way to save space and save green in your Chicago apartment. Apartment living entails making a wise use of space. Green living requires adequate research for resource efficient products. Combine, renters can find easy-to-use appliances that make living green in a limited space easier than ever. This sleek LG [...]
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Northerly Island to enter a new green era
A city of internationally acclaimed museums, quality urban living, fabulous entertainment centers and esteemed schools, Chicago can only take pride in adding a new and improved camping hub to its portfolio. Chicagoans young and old, boaters, campers, anglers and bird watchers will be able to engage in fun-filled activities, educational programs and outdoor adventures just [...]
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Retrofit Chicago promotes green, sustainable living
Be it winter or summer, there’s one concern that remains constant for apartment dwellers: how to cut the electric bill. While there are things we can do ourselves in order to reduce the monthly hole that cooling and heating up the place produces in our household budgets, the City Of Chicago has come up with [...]
Atlanta restaurants \ Farm-to-table \ Green Living
Food for your lifestyle: Atlanta’s best farm-to-table restaurants
Fuel your body with sustainably sourced foods at Atlanta’s best eco-friendly restaurants. Bring your green lifestyle to the table with you. Without further ado, meet Atlanta’s champions of farm-to-table cuisine. Miller Union represents multiple levels of sustainable development. The restaurant occupies the former Miller Union Stockyards, repurposing this Westside icon as a community gathering place. [...]
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Wicker Park sets an example of eco-conscious living
Nowadays most renters look for lifestyle and convenience in their apartment choices, with an increased care for sustainable features and green living. Sustainable living environments, proximity to parks, schools and shopping destinations, as well as sustainable building materials join other primary requirements like granite countertops and central air conditioning on the list of amenities highly-coveted [...]
7 practical household uses for pesky plastic bags
Try as you might with your reusable grocery sacks and polite decline when the checkout person asks, “Would you like a bag for that,” some how a seeming million of those annoying plastic grocery sacks still manage to find their way into your house. Luckily, these annoying little sacks also have about a million uses. [...]
Atlanta apartments \ Cleaning \ Green Living
Scrub-a-dub in your apartment tub with eco-friendly cleaners
These homemade solutions are inexpensive, sustainable, and easy to make at home. This blog post idea came to me in a revelation one night while scrubbing out the bathtub before my fiancé arrived. I had my earphones in, rockin’ out, going crazy with a bottle of Tilex when I started to cough. My throat burned [...]
Green Living \ Sustainable living
Apartment Living: Where the Grass is Greener
Apartment living really is greener! I’m sure you are familiar with the phrase, “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” When you compare apartment living with a single family home lifestyle, which would you think is greener? By “green” we mean an environmentally friendly lifestyle. Greener Living Something not commonly [...]
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Green day spas provide therapy as Mother Nature intended
Eco-friendly spas are hard to come by! Check out three of the city’s best. The verdict is out: Atlanta is one of the most stressed-out cities in the US. There’s not enough sweet tea in the world to calm some of us down. Our morning commutes are longer because school has started. The job market [...]
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