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Wednesday, April 22nd is…
Earth Day!
UPworld would like to celebrate by providing you with green tips for both your home and business.
25 Green Tips for Home and Work:
- Lower the thermostat.
- Reuse your water bottle. In fact, reuse everything at least once, especially plastics.
- Use low-flow faucets, showerheads, and toilets.
- Start a compost in your back yard or on your rooftop.
- Buy locally made products and use locally produced services.
- Buy compact fluorescent light bulbs.
- Turn off lights and electronics when you leave the room. Unplug your cell phone charger from the wall when not using it. Turn off energy strips and surge protectors when not in use.
- Car pool. Ride a bike. Walk, jog, or run.
- Go to your local library instead of buying new books.
- Eliminate junk mail.
- Buy products that use recyclable materials whenever possible.
- Recycle plastic grocery bags by using them as small trashcan liners.
- Bring your own bags to the grocery store.
- Consider organic cleaning products like vinegar, borax, and baking soda.
- Consider buying a fuel-efficient car or a hybrid.
- Landscape with native plants.
- Opt into a clean energy program.
- Go paperless. Read your newspaper and magazine subscriptions online. Switch to electronic banking and credit card payment. Distribute company information and post company material online.
- Teach kids about the environment.
- Turn your car off if you’re going to be idle for more than one minute.
- Do full loads of laundry and set the rinse cycle to “cold.”
- Recycle your technology. Dell, Hewlett Packard, Apple, and IBM, among others, offer recycling programs.
- Use green cleaning products.
- Opt for eco-friendly and holistic health products.
- Shop smart. Look for eco-smart products.
Check out National Geographic’s Green Guide for Everyday Living to learn more about how you van make a difference. Visit www.thegreenguide.com.
For more information about Earth Day 2009 and The Green Generation Campaign, a two-year initiative to include not only big businesses but ordinary people in the push towards renewable energy, sustainable consumption, and green jobs, visit www.earthday.net.
http://www.portengineering.info/americas/north-america/new-city-in-florida-to-run-on-solar-power.html
New city in Florida to run on solar power:
UNITED STATES - A Florida developer announced an ambitious plan Thursday for a 19,500-home city with energy-efficient buildings that will be “the first city on earth powered by zero-emission solar energy”.
The new city, Babcock Ranch, will be developed by Kitson & Partners on 17,000 acres northeast of Fort Myers. It will include the world’s largest photovoltaic power plant, which will be operated by Florida Power & Light. Buildings will be certified green and surrounded by thousands of acres of open space.
”We’re out to prove that it works economically,” developer Syd Kitson told The Miami Herald. “And it’s the right thing to do for the long-term solutions in this country”.
Though researchers are working to create storage capability for sunlight-generated power, solar electricity at present is available only during daytime hours.
Kitson’s concept is that FPL’s 75-megawatt solar generator will produce more power for the state’s electric grid while the sun shines than the city will use in 24 hours. That means Babcock Ranch will have to rely on conventional power sources for the evening, but its net effect will a solar-only city.
The solar panels will sit on 350 acres within the development. More than half of the city’s 17,000 acres will be permanently protected as greenways and open space, the developer said, and will adjoin the 73,000-acre Babcock Ranch Preserve that has been purchased by the state.
FPL estimates the Babcock solar facility will cost about $300 million and add about 31 cents to the average customer’s monthly bill. Among other projects in the years ahead, the company is also working to add 1,200 megawatts of power fueled by natural gas in Palm Beach County and 2,200 megawatts of new nuclear power at Turkey Point.
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