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Green Energy: Simple Ways to Save Money and Protect the Environment

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Retailers are no longer allowed to sell 100W, 60W, 40W or 25W products of this kind in a bid to save 39 terawatt- hours of electricity a year across the European Union (EU) by 2020. Replacing an old, gas system with an A-rated condensing boiler could save you hundreds of pounds a year and reduce your carbon footprint.

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EarthTalk: Impact of Spending Time Online

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While the energy usage required to run its cloud services (Google Search, Google+, Gmail and YouTube) seems huge in the aggregate—it used 260 megawatt hours to power its data centers in 2010—it boils down to only 7.4 kilowatt hours worth of energy annually per user. In an April 2011 report entitled “How Dirty is your Data?”