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Indoor air pollution is a silent assailant. “Air pollution” generally conjures up images of big spewing smoke stacks, noxious car fumes, and cities where the sun is blocked my haze. What you might not picture is your home. Your home’s air is, on average, four to five times more polluted than the outside air. This is more than a little shocking. As the top most environmental problem in the US, it is believed that about 50% of all sicknesses can be attributed to indoor air quality. Luckily, a simple change to an organic mold cleaner can eliminate some of these issues. This is a serious matter that many people are simply unaware of. Even the most spotless homes can be the unhealthiest. Where does your home fall?

Children are much more vulnerable to bad air than adults because, in general, they breathe faster. Children take in about 50% more air per body size than a regular adult. A child who is crawling on the floor inhales the same amount of pollution equal to four whole cigarettes. This is caused by the out-gassing associated with mildew and mold, dust mites, fungus and other irritants located in and around the floor, the furniture, and other household surfaces. Cleaning products are also a dangerous source of pollution. These products are made up of harsh chemicals that have the potential to harm everyone in your home.

Some common pollutants that comprise indoor air pollution are radon, a radioactive gas that is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths each year, molds, mildews, pollen, and pet dander. Carbon monoxide is another common pollutant which starves the body of oxygen, leading to nausea, unconsciousness, and even death. Carbon dioxide is also capable of causing problems for people. Headaches and drowsiness are common symptoms.

VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, may sound like an unfamiliar term, but you are more familiar with them than you might know. VOCs are gases that come from some liquids or solids. While they may be invisible, it’s generally the smell you notice. These odors come from a variety of familiar household products: paints, glue, permanent markers, and cleaning products. When you inhale this smell, you are actually inhaling the chemicals from the product. You know that headache-inducing smell you get when cleaning with bleach? The chemicals from that bleach are going directly into your lungs. These VOCs are highly regulated, but because the sources are many, it is increasingly difficult. Concentrations of VOCs are sometimes ten times higher inside than outside, especially with the air-tight quality and insulation that houses are being built with more these days.

Reducing the level of pollution inside your house is easier than you might know. Just switching cleaning products is an easy and effective first step. You see, all natural cleaners, like those from Nasgreen, make cleaning your home safe for everyone in your household. Because there are no harsh chemicals in the formula, you don’t need to worry about terrible fumes and chemical residues.

Living a healthier and happier life is something your family can start doing right now. Look around and see what might be contributing to unhealthy levels of indoor pollution. Simply knowing what in your home could be augmenting the level of pollution in your home can make a big difference. Small, simple steps and basic changes, like choosing an all natural carpet cleaner, can help kick start a healthier and more eco-friendly home for you and your family. Think about switching to natural floor cleaners today.

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Cleaning is something we all have to do. Cleaning a home is one thing, but when you own a business and are in charge of adhering to safety standards, that’s something completely different. How clean your establishment is affects everything from bringing in customers, reputation, and customer experience. Making sure your business is clean, however, is easier than ever. Nasco International is an efficient commercial organic cleaning company.

Both indoor and outdoor surfaces can be cleaned with Nasco’s revolutionary cleaning process and products. Carpet, tile, and even all sorts of outdoor surfaces can benefit from a thorough cleaning. Whether you’re looking to just tidy up after a busy week or pressure clean your entire parking lot, using the right sort of product makes a huge difference.

Any kind of organization can reap benefits from the innovative cleaning services provided by Nasco. From hospitals to gas stations, businesses of all shapes and sizes can look their brightest. The cleanliness of a business is directly related to the amount of reoccurring and new customers they can get. Cleaning services really help in this respect.

How dirty do the floors get of your business? Think about it. Every time you or someone else walks in from outside they are bringing in dirt, pesticides, mold, gasoline, and other chemicals. And that’s if nothing worse was stepped in! You have no idea the dirt, grease, and grime that are building up on your floors, and it will cause odor and discoloration. I’m sure you don’t want people’s initial reaction to be “This place smells terrible.” Get rid of and further prevent these problems simply by cleaning properly. stop them before they happen. The amount of food that hits the floor in a restaurant is ridiculous; on top of what germs are moved from the restroom back out on to the floor!

It’s more than important to think about the environmental impact, as well as customer satisfaction, when choosing cleaning products. Using complicated chemical concoctions will fill the air with more harmful and harsh fumes. You can do just as good of a job with plant based natural cleaners, which don’t provide headache causing acrid odors, nor any kind of residue.

Indoor air pollution is an increasing occurrence. In many cases, the air inside our homes and offices is even worse than the air outside. Biological and chemical sources contribute to this indoor air pollution. Whether it’s mold, pet dander, dust mites, or other pests, biological pollutants are just as serious as their chemical counterparts, which include carbon monoxide, smoke, ozone, and VOCs, or volatile organic compounds. Using all natural cleaning products is one way to reduce this indoor pollution. Nasco’s products are non-toxic, free from VOCs, and don’t leave a harsh chemical residue, meaning you and your office or business can breathe easier.

It should now be clear, merely changing to an organic cleaning company can make a big difference in the amount of pollutants present in your indoor air. In addition, businesses can protect their customers from harmful chemicals, and yourself from unfortunate lawsuits. To meet the EPA’s standards, Nasco’s products and services are your best choice. Not only being incredibly effective, their cleaning products are safe and natural. They have been constantly working towards creating the best possible product for roughly 20 years. So, clean with efficiency, and choose Nasco’s eco-friendly cleaning services.

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There’s no point in trying to brush the problem of excess energy use under the carpet any longer. Change begins at home and it begins with every one of us. If we own or rent a home and use all the creature comforts that we are used to, then we are responsible for using a certain amount of energy and have, consequently, a carbon footprint to worry about. No longer can we expect big business to shoulder the blame and it’s no longer good enough to say that we take the bus to work and don’t drive. We all need to make big changes and look for ways to save electricity wherever we can find them. You need to take one single step if you are going to begin a journey of 1000 miles.

To start off with, you should make sure that all your windows and doors are fitting properly and you should go and check this right now. You might not be able to see any issues and should check by running your hand along the edges or by using an open flame of some kind to see whether you have any drafts. There is no sense whatsoever in heating the inside of your house or using air conditioning to try and cool it down during the brief hot spells that we get, if your hard earned money is flying out the window. Take steps to secure your home in this respect and then start to worry about your air heating and cooling costs.

If you have rooms that are not in constant use, consider putting any lighting appliances within on a timer. Motion detectors are good as well as they will activate and deactivate the lights when people move around. Almost every electrical item that you have actually wastes energy even if it is just plugged in and not switched on, and you should remove it from the wall socket just to be sure. Turn off computers at night. You have no need to keep them on for this period of time and they will only build up heat within, anyway. Every little bit helps and will account for a good savings at the end of the year.

We all know of the benefits of renewable energy, but once again, we tend to think that it’s a project for somebody else. Solar energy panels could be a good idea? It is possible to run your entire property by using solar power, whether you mount them on the roof or set it up so that they are appropriately angled within your garden. One of the ways to save electricity is to cut down on its extraction from the grid and to reduce the size of your footprint. If our footprint is too big, we need to get more energy efficient “shoes” and not continue to be extravagant in everything that we do. When heating water, why not turn the thermostat down a degree or so and remember that heating water with electricity is highly inefficient normally. They say that roughly 2/3 of the energy actually produced to get the electricity to you, to heat your water in the first place, is lost in the distribution system. For efficiency’s sake, oil or gas fired water heaters are much better, more highly efficient and will be far more beneficial when it comes to helping the environment as well.

Tags: environment, environmental sustainability, Renewable Energy, saving electricity, saving money

We seem so engrossed as we run in place, just to make ends meet, that we are not capable of standing back and looking at the bigger picture any more. Why are we so grossly inefficient at the way that we run our lives? For many years now, we have dealt with pretty good times and have not had to worry about putting such expensive petrol into our cars, nor be concerned about the fact that without those cars we simply cannot exist. A recession was something that we could barely remember or if we were young enough, we read about it in economics books. Whether it was time for a wake up call or not, we certainly got one.

We can clearly see that we can no longer rely on mechanical energy to help us to do absolutely everything. Energy inefficiency has led to huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, causing damage to the environment and forcing us to consider major changes, right now. We talk a good story about the benefits of renewable energy, but we are not helping the environment by diverting funds away from the research and development needed to actually make these options work for us.

“The Great Recession,” as it has become known, has now shown us how vulnerable we are to a downturn and how we all have little to fall back on in hard times. As such, we must be efficient in everything we do and this definitely includes energy use. We all have to learn to turn appliances off, to think of what we could do as an alternative and not just opt for the easy way. We must review our transportation habits and not clog the roads with single occupant vehicles each and every day as we go back and forth to work.

If you happen to be the decision-maker either at home or in the office, come up with ways to save electricity and then put an action plan in place. Insist that your family turns off all the lights, turn up the thermostats by a notch – don’t allow them to be altered, and make sure that all family members wash clothes at the same time and not individually, and generally be a better keeper of the space that you occupy.

We shouldn’t rely on politicians to do our work for us. Few seem to doubt the validity of those environmental claims, but political agendas are still getting in the way of making any headway. Just look at what failed to come out of that summit of “leaders” in Copenhagen – inaction once again.

We don’t have to wait around for politicians to try and force big business to solve these issues. We need to understand that by working individually, we can end up working together and if we all do our own bit we can steadily reduce energy use and cut back on the size of our global carbon footprint daily. Start right away by putting “people power” into action and let’s all enjoy the journey, taking advantage of the fact that there are billions of us around the world with an almost unbelievable combined potential – but only if we act now!

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It’s not as if saving money has ever been “out” of fashion, as such, but it is certainly en vogue these days. We all hate receiving those monthly energy bills in the mail and will silently curse as we open them. This would always be the time to make a resolution, vowing to turn off all unnecessary lights. Back then, though, it did not seem to be so urgent and we were somewhat poor at following through. If we fast forward to today, we seem to be living in a different world. Now we are looking for a whole array of different ways to save electricity, as we realise just how pressing this need is.

Once the domain only of environmentalists and tree huggers, we now all know how important it is to cut back on our energy use, so that we do not emit carbon dioxide and damage the planet. News reports tell us on a virtual daily basis how global warming is changing everything, threatening to melt polar ice packs and taking away the ability of people who live in remote countries to look after themselves, due to intense alterations in weather patterns and climate change. Closer to home, we hear that companies are going to be penalised for using too much energy and emitting carbon and imagine that these costs will be passed along to us as well.

Even if we don’t look at things from an overall perspective and express our concern for nature, we can see how energy costs themselves have exploded in recent times. The government has tried and seems to be failing to regulate the energy industry and infrastructure seems unable to cope and is constantly under pressure. How much longer will the system be able to put up with spikes in energy use, as we rely on those old fossil fuels to provide the raw material? We all know the benefits of renewable energy, but we collectively have not moved forward fast enough to try and embrace them. Just think of the extraordinary ways in which we would be helping the environment if we were able to turn to wind, solar and other renewable sources for the majority of our energy.

Getting down to business, what can we do at home to help both ourselves and the environment? There are a number of options. For a start, we should always purchase highly efficient equipment for our kitchens and for our heating and air-conditioning needs. Look for a refrigerator, for example, that consumes around 100 KwH per year and you will be in possession of an appliance that is four times more efficient than the European Union average. You may have to spend about five or maybe 10% more to actually buy the machine, but just think about how much energy you could save and how it would help to reduce your electricity bill. If you purchase new appliances, they will last for at least five years and the money that you pay upfront to purchase them will certainly be saved over that period of time. Remember that they will need less repairing as well and you won’t be as annoyed by that fan circling on whenever you are trying to sit down and watch the television!

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The solar energy world leader (as featured on the BBC), Germany, is now attracting a spike in demand for Solar Energy Investment as the deadline that you have to ‘plug in’ before the reduction in the feed-in tariff (FIT) looms.

As reported in Reuters (citing a parliamentary source), a reduction of up to 16% is expected for most solar photovoltaic installations from the first of July 2010, significantly reducing the incentive for investors.

Solar photovoltaic (PV) panel makers have been receiving many new orders not only from domestic homeowners but also from businesses and investment groups with larger roofspaces and qualified installers have been working around the clock to fit the panels in time before the reduced tariff is activated.

Experience International MD ‘Steven Worboys’ who are exclusive marketing partners, for the first time in the UK, Solar Panel investment in Germany, comments,

“With the 1st July deadline fast approaching we are sourcing additional roofspace in order to meet the high demand for solar energy investments in Germany. UK investors know that ‘plugging in’ by the 1st of July will mean higher returns over the next 20 years.”

The FIT was first introduced into Germany in 1990 and requires utilities to connect renewable energy generators to the grid and buy the produced electricity at a rate of 65-90% of the average tariff charged per unit to consumers.

The model has been so successful in supporting the evolvement of the renewable energy industry that is has been replicated all over the world, including the United Kingdon.

However, some 20 yrs on, the government in Germany has realised that the feed-in tariff, currently at 32 – 43 eurocents/kWh, is over-subsidizing the renewable energy industry costing consumers too much (8.95 Billion Euros in 2008) and so the FIT tariff is to be cut. The fall of up to a third in the cost of manufacture of solar panels and growth in cheaper imports, especially from China, also were also an influence in the decision.

By their very design FITs are made to to reduce over time and the reduction is not unexpected, even if the high two digit nature is deemed somewhat severe by some.

But as Steven Worboys concludes:

“The feed-in tariff has played a major part in turning Germany into the biggest and most successful solar energy producer in the world. It has installed 9 GW of PV capacity with a target by the government of 66 GW by 2030. The industry has a turnover of some €1.7 billion per annum, employs 20,000 people and analysts anticipate that solar energy can provide 25% of the nation’s electricity by the year 2050.”

With this clear progress thus far and new government targets for renewable energy production being made, the imminent reduction in FITs is certainly not the end of Germany’s solar success story and the growth and success of Solar power as a leading Alternative Energy Investment. You still have a window of opportunity for investors to benefit from returns of €21.501 net income in Year 1 and 17% net ROI for years 1 – 20.

For further information about ‘plugging in’ before 1st July 2010 contact the exclusive marketing partners as soon as possible, Experience International on +44 (0) 207 321 5858 or visit Experience-International.com.

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We are currently experiencing a boom in green business. With this boom there is a growing opportunity for investors. Whether such investors are driven by social and environmental principles or they are just looking for a growing market in which to benefit financially, the interest in green business investing grows.

Such is the drive for green business investing that Deutsche Bank and the Nasdaq have partnered to create a new index for the global green business sector. This index is called the (DBCC), Clean Tech Index. DBCC monitors more than 119 global companies that generate at least one third of their revenue from clean technology. The creation of such an index is a strong indicator that investing in clean business is here to stay. Deutsche Bank and the Nasdaq do not waste their time and considerable effort investing in disappearing trends.

In the light of the above developments, it is accurate to predict that the volume and extent of green business investing will increase substantially for many years to come. The U.S. Government is planning to flood funding into green technologies. Entrepreneurs and long established corporations alike are looking for their place in this rapidly expanding market. The rise in green business opportunity is a worldwide leaning that is bound to have a considerable effect on global markets.

Clean energy technology is not only rising to encompass the market and its investors, but is projected to create solid employment opportunities worldwide. It is clear that the U.S. economy cannot rebound without the growth of new jobs. The loss of employment in this country is astounding. We need industry to expand in order to employ the millions of Americans who lost their jobs during the recession.

In order to achieve this, we need a revitalization that will grab the attention of the American marketplace and American business. Green business could well be the answer to a range of employment woes. With new clean technology developments, many investors will be willing to stake the capital needed for expansion into the green marketplace. Such expansion will take trained personnel for the manufacture and marketing of green products. This will not be a fast transition, but it will surely come.

Green businesses services are already experiencing vital growth in America and other parts of the world. One example of this is the increased demand for solar panel installers. With businesses, municipalities, and individuals turning to solar power to augment or replace their demand for fossil fuel energy, there is an unprecedented call for solar technicians everywhere. Such a need for this expertise and experience in the home improvement and building industry could not have been foreseen just a few short years ago.

To be certain, if we are willing to bank on anything, we should be willing to bank on the future of the green initiative and green business growth. We owe a commitment to this fledgling industry because nothing short of the future of our planet and our country is at stake. If we, as individuals, businesses, and governments are willing to make financial and personal investment in the growth of green business, the rewards might just be beyond anything we can imagine.

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We seem so engrossed as we run in place, just to make ends meet, that we are not capable of standing back and looking at the bigger picture any more. We need to ask ourselves why we are so significantly inefficient in running our lives. This must be a consequence of many years of relatively good times, when we didn’t need to worry about the sheer amount of petrol that our cars used, or the fact that we have become completely reliant on our cars just to exist these days. It’s been so long since we had a recession, we can’t remember what it is all about and some of us are too young anyway, being forced to read about these downturns in reference books! Whether it was time for a wake up call or not, we certainly got one.

It is crazy that we rely on mechanical energy forms to help us do everything, without question. Energy inefficiency has led to huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, causing damage to the environment and forcing us to consider major changes, right now. We talk a good story about the benefits of renewable energy, but we are not helping the environment by diverting funds away from the research and development needed to actually make these options work for us.

Now we can see how vulnerable we are to an economic downturn and we can see that the “great recession” has exposed this vulnerability. Now, efficiency is everything and this most definitely includes the use of energy. We all have to learn to turn appliances off, to think of what we could do as an alternative and not just opt for the easy way. It’s just not good enough to clog our roads with vehicles carrying just one occupant as we go back and forth to our work, and we should review our transportation activities carefully.

If you happen to be the decision-maker either at home or in the office, come up with ways to save electricity and then put an action plan in place. Insist that your family turns off all the lights, turn up the thermostats by a notch – don’t allow them to be altered, and make sure that all family members wash clothes at the same time and not individually, and generally be a better keeper of the space that you occupy.

As we know, we cannot rely on our politicians to work quickly enough. We can see that politicians certainly seem to understand the problem, but individual agendas are just getting in the way of any progress. The so-called “summit” attended by our leaders in Copenhagen failed to produce any realistic action, once again.

While politicians may well try and force big business to address the issues, we shouldn’t wait for this. If we all do our own bit, we can save ourselves money by steadily reducing our energy use and our own carbon footprints every day, and although we can’t get this all done by ourselves, we can achieve real results if we all work together. Start right away by putting “people power” into action and let’s all enjoy the journey, taking advantage of the fact that there are billions of us around the world with an almost unbelievable combined potential – but only if we act now!

Tags: environment, environmental sustainability, Renewable Energy, saving electricity, saving money

Excess energy use is just bad news and we cannot run away from this problem any more and pretend it doesn’t exist. We need to realise that change begins at home and it is up to each one of us. If we own or rent a home and use all the creature comforts that we are used to, then we are responsible for using a certain amount of energy and have, consequently, a carbon footprint to worry about. We cannot turn to big business and blame them for everything, nor can we half-heartedly point to the fact that we might take the bus when we go to work and not use a car. We all need to make big changes and look for ways to save electricity wherever we can find them. You need to take one single step if you are going to begin a journey of 1000 miles.

To start off with, you should make sure that all your windows and doors are fitting properly and you should go and check this right now. You might not be able to see any issues and should check by running your hand along the edges or by using an open flame of some kind to see whether you have any drafts. There is no sense whatsoever in heating the inside of your house or using air conditioning to try and cool it down during the brief hot spells that we get, if your hard earned money is flying out the window. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that your house is as airtight as you can make it before worrying about your cooling and heating costs.

Rooms that are only rarely used should be isolated and you can put timer activated lighting appliances in these areas. Motion detectors are good as well as they will activate and deactivate the lights when people move around. Unplug all electrical items when they’re not actually in use, as they can still drain electricity when connected to a wall socket. Turn off computers at night. You have no need to keep them on for this period of time and they will only build up heat within, anyway. Every little bit helps and will account for a good savings at the end of the year.

Most people understand the benefits of renewable energy, but for some reason or another, we have a tendency to look to other people to take advantage of this knowledge. Why not consider some solar panels? It is possible to run your entire property by using solar power, whether you mount them on the roof or set it up so that they are appropriately angled within your garden. If you don’t extract as much electricity from the grid, you would be saving and reducing the size of your carbon footprint at the same time. If our footprint is too big, we need to get more energy efficient “shoes” and not continue to be extravagant in everything that we do. When heating water, why not turn the thermostat down a degree or so and remember that heating water with electricity is highly inefficient normally. Did you know that two thirds of the energy used to produce that electricity, the product that you use to heat your water, is actually lost as it is being distributed to you? Direct oil or gas fired water heaters are far better at helping the environment and are much more efficient in the long run.

Tags: environment, environmental sustainability, Renewable Energy, saving electricity, saving money

It’s not as if saving money has ever been “out” of fashion, as such, but it is certainly en vogue these days. We used to be concerned about receiving those energy bills and would mutter under our breath as we tore open the envelope. Often we would make a mental note that we were going to turn off those lights when we went out of the room. Invariably though, we would forget as it didn’t seem quite so urgent for some reason. If we fast forward to today, we seem to be living in a different world. All of the ways to save electricity are being explored and we now understand how important this is.

There was a time when only environmentalists and those known as “tree huggers” would seem to sense the true urgency of excess energy use and preach to us that we needed to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions or we would cause damage to the world we live in. We hear all kinds of reports on the news about how global warming is changing polar ice packs and that people in far-off countries are in danger of losing their ability to feed themselves, due to climate changes and weather pattern alterations. Closer to home, we hear that companies are going to be penalised for using too much energy and emitting carbon and imagine that these costs will be passed along to us as well.

Quite apart from the holistic considerations and our concern for Mother Nature, energy costs themselves have been going through the roof. The government has tried and seems to be failing to regulate the energy industry and infrastructure seems unable to cope and is constantly under pressure. Those seasonal spikes in energy seem to be causing more issues as we go along and we wonder how long the system will be able to put up with this, as we continue to rely on fossil fuels for our power. We all know the benefits of renewable energy, but we collectively have not moved forward fast enough to try and embrace them. We would be helping the environment in no small way if we were able to receive the majority of our energy from renewable sources, wind, solar, etc.

Getting down to business, what can we do at home to help both ourselves and the environment? There are a number of options. For a start, we should always purchase highly efficient equipment for our kitchens and for our heating and air-conditioning needs. As an example, some refrigerators are available that consume only 100 kWh per year and these appliances are said to be four times more efficient than similar appliances found in the European Union. You may have to spend about five or maybe 10% more to actually buy the machine, but just think about how much energy you could save and how it would help to reduce your electricity bill. These appliances may last for 4 to 5 years and the additional amount you pay to buy them up front will definitely be saved in the long run. New appliances will need less repairing and you will do yourself a favour as well by eliminating the noise coming from that old and worn fan, which seems to circulate annoyingly whenever you sit down in your most comfortable chair to watch a film!

Tags: environment, environmental sustainability, Renewable Energy, saving electricity, saving money