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Green Start Ups Seek Funding From The Crowd

DIY, aquaponics, back to the roots, gardening kits, kickstarter

Sierra Club Geen Home reports on how an increasing number of green start ups are turning to crowdsource funding sites like Kickstarter for capital.

How Green Building Truly Rebuilds Disaster Struck Communities

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Sierra Club Green Home takes a look at how green building practices can help disaster struck communities.

Top Ten Smartphone Apps For An Eco-Friendly Home, Lifestyle

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Sierra Club Green Home does a round up of ten smartphone apps that help make it a little bit easier to live a greener lifestyle.

Driving the Plug-In Prius

Toyota Prius Plug In Hybrid

A Sierra Club employee takes a Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid for a test drive to check out its usefulness on the streets.

Austin, Texas Mandates Energy Audits To Encourage Efficiency

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Sierra Club Green Home reports on how mandated home energy audits are helping reduce the city’s electric demand.

Innovative Climate Device Paints New Picture Of The Arctic

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Sierra Club Green Home reports on a tool being used in the Arctic by researchers to predict out future changes there and how this will affect the environment.

This App Can Fight Forest Fires

Firewhat App

Sierra Club Green Home checks out a start up founded by firefighters to bring the latest information on fires to mobile phones through apps.

Could Electric Cars Take Off In China?

Toyota Prius Plug In Hybrid

Sierra Club Green Home reports on what it might take to make green cars such as hybrids and all-electric vehicles more commonplace in China.

Will Oil Alternatives Free Us?

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Sierra Club Green Home reviews the documentary Freedom, which takes the audience on a journey on the true cost of America’s oil dependency, and the freeing possibilities of oil alternatives.

Windows For Energy Efficiency: Repair, Retrofit Or Replace?

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Sierra Club Green Home takes a look at options around a question everyone with windows on their homes faces eventually: repair, retrofit or replace?