Ovens are not actually a high energy use appliance in most homes. For example a fridge, your dryer, the AC all use more energy but that doesn’t mean you can’t save some energy all around, right?! To save more energy when using your overn do the following:

Don’t use it at all. Microwaves cook faster while using less energy than an oven. When you can use the microwave.
Keep the door shut while food is cooking. Each time you open the door to peek at that cake, the oven releases energy.
Clean your oven regularly. A dirty oven is less efficient.
Turn it off [...]

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Super speedy green oven tricks

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I’m a die hard Biokleen detergent users, but I’m always willing to try something new. Options are good. Today a review of Vaska’s herbatergent.

PRODUCTS: Vaska’s herbatergent (unscented) from Vaska
USES: Washing clothing; suitable for adult and baby clothing. High efficiency friendly.
INGREDIENTS: Plant based surfactants, vegetable conditioner, water-soluble degreasing agent, lavender extract (leaves no scent) and filtered water.
COST: $9.99 for 48 oz – 32 loads (but I think it works out to more – read review below)
ECO-PERKS:

100% biodegradable.
Graywater safe.
Disclosure of ingredients at website and on packaging.
Hypoallergenic.
Phosphate free.
Awarded “champion” status by the EPA – the highest possible award as [...]

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Green Review: Vaska herbatergent

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Colorado is a mecca for grid tied Solar Energy Solutions, due to a combination of high sun hours and large consumers of electricity.
“Denver has more sun days then San Diego,” says Richard McCracken, owner of Nth Degree Solar Energy Solutions in Grand Junction, Colorado. Nth Degree Energy has been installing solar systems in the Grand [...]

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My Wondercube makes a ton of adorable eco-friendly products for wee ones, but I really adore their namesake the Wondercubes. Wondercubes are pretty little cube toys that are ideal for babies on up. There are three sweet cubes to choose from and each comes with fun fillings tucked inside…

The Little Wonder Jersey is soft, machine washable, and each square of the cube features sounds such as a bell, squeaker, rattle or crinkle. It is presented in a stylish eco-friendly display box.

The beautiful Fair Trade My Wondercube is made from organic woven cotton and each square has a different
texture – silk, [...]

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Super cute green toy alert!

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ECOBAGS offers all sorts of organic reusable bags that can help you green your world. Why use a reusable bag?
Reusable Bags offers these (and other) facts related to plastic bags:

500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used per year – or one million per minute. Insanity; um yeah. Most don’t make it to a recycling facility.
“According to Australia’s Department of Environment, Australians consume 326 plastic bags per person, per year.”
“Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, according to the nonprofit Center for Marine Conservation.”
In 2001, Ireland consumed around [...]

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ECOBAGS Organic Bag Choices

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There are many earth 4 energy scam sources today that are exceedingly restricted in supply. Some of these sources include oil, average gas, and coal. It is a matter of meter in front they would be exhausted.
Estimates are that they can only meet our energy demands for different fifty to seventy years. So in [...]

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A solar window is a vesture of solar cells. And the solar cell is a twist that converts vigor radiated by the Sun, in the shrimp bundles of packets titled photons, into electricity. This occurs on the exposure of element cells made up of silicon apportion in the body to sun. The metal surface of [...]

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Minimizing plastic exposure is one of the easiest green kitchen and lifestyle choices you can make that offers big rewards in terms of personal health and planet health. Why?
Many plastics are made with polycarbonate, which in turn is made from bisphenol A (BPA) a chemical correlated with hormone disruption, obesity, adverse neurological effects and other not so cool health issues. When plastics aren’t made with BPA they’re still a major drain on the planet and resources. Even if you recycle (which plenty of Americans don’t) recycling is expensive and causes another whole set of environmental problems.

How BPA gets to you: [...]

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Minimizing plastic exposure

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