Keep Your Water Bill From Soaking You
(NAPSI) -- You don’t have to spend a lot of green to keep your garden green. In fact, there are ways to conserve water, save on your water bill and still have a lush garden. Many homeowners save water and money by using drip irrigation systems that deliver the right amount of water slowly and evenly at the plant’s roots--where it is needed most.

Everyday Ways to Positively Impact the Environment
(MS) -- When it comes to the environment, it’s easy and understandable to get a feeling of helplessness. Issues such as global warming seem so overwhelming it’s hard to imagine an individual having an impact that can lessen the blow of pollution and other damage and directly benefit the environment. As daunting as some of these issues can seem, there are things individuals can do on a daily basis that, if practiced on a broad scale, can prove very beneficial to the environment and paint a very different picture of the world we’ll leave for our children and our children’s children.

Learning About Carbon Footprints
(MS) -- When the topic of conversation inevitably turns toward the state of the environment, the term “carbon footprint” is frequently uttered. While many people nod their heads in comprehension, many do not have a clue what “carbon footprint” actually means.

Hidden Danger in CFL Light Bulbs
(MS) -- Did you know the U.S. Congress passed an energy bill in 2007 banning the incandescent light bulb by the year 2014? That’s because the incandescent bulb, the one Thomas Edison helped perfect in the 1800s, has been superseded by the compact fluorescent light (CFL) and LEDs because of their benefits to the environment. But could the CFL really be too good to be true? Less than a month after the U.S. energy bill was passed, research in Britain has led to the UK Environment Agency issuing guidelines about CFLs.

Going Green Continues to Grow
(MS) -- As “going green” has quickly become a worldwide mantra in just a few years, it seems that many other people are realizing what early environmental pioneers already knew: that the earth is a resource worth sustaining.