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

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That’s right, even the smallest changes like arranging boiler maintenance or fixing leaking taps can save you money and protect the environment, so there’s no need to shop for wind turbines or solar panels just yet. This is not good for your bank balance or the environment, so think about lagging your water system.

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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 In the long run, analysts think that the widespread shift to cloud computing will be a great boon to the environment.