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This site is all about innovation, conservation, re-engineering, remodeling, and rethinking about how we impact our environment. Whether you're a resident, business owner, green builder, or environmental activist... you'll find plenty of information and tools here to bring green living to Dallas. And if you don't find something, drop us a line. This is a 100% participation site.

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Some appliances still use watts even when they are turned off. These are often appliances like Mobile phone chargers, DVD recorders, and devices that have remote controls. When you identify these, consider plugging them into a power strip that can be turned off when not in use.

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100 Coal Plants Prevented or Abandoned

100 Coal Plants Prevented or Abandoned: Movement Sparks Shift to Cleaner Energy and Over 400 Million Fewer Tons of CO2 Washington, DC: Americans can breathe easier today as Intermountain Power’s coal plant in Utah became the 100th new coal plant to be prevented or abandoned since the beginning of the coal rush in 2001. In their place, a smart mix […] Read more »

ASHRAE Introduces Building Energy Label

ASHRAE is introducing a new building energy label. The good news is that a prototype label for the ASHRAE Headquarters in Atlanta was recently unveiled. ASHRAE is working with major real estate developers to implement the label prototype this fall with a widespread launch of the full program in 2010. The Building Energy Quotient program, […] Read more »

Please urge passage of these bills!

This is time sensitive. These are the last 2 weeks of the 2009 session of the Texas legislature. Please urge passage of these bills!  The Texas legislature is in the last two weeks of its five month long, every other year session. In these sessions our primary focus has too often been fighting bad bills. But, for a change we have […] Read more »

Turtle Spring = I found a turtle, what do I do?!

And spring is here! Yay, we are over the murky winter! Hopefully all turtles (and other creatures) successfully hibernated and now are ready for another wonderful year of adventurous life of searching for a mate, reproducing and hatching the next generation of chelonians. Spring is a busy and  challenging season for turtles and tortoises.  After turtles emerge from hibernation  they […] Read more »

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