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By creating a natural swimming pool, also known as a natural swimming pond, you are helping the environment in several ways: you’re saving energy and water, lessening chlorine pollution, and starting a micro-environment that helps shift the general environment toward a healthy direction.
How to build a natural [...]
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How can we live lightly on the Earth and save money at the same time? Staff members at the Worldwatch Institute, a global environmental organization, share ideas on how to GO GREEN and SAVE GREEN at home and at work. To learn more about Worldwatch’s efforts to [...]
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9 Steps to Saving Fuel, Saving Money and Saving the Environment
Hypermiling refers to a collection of driving techniques aimed at improving your car’s fuel efficiency by reducing the demands placed on the engine. Since it’s possible to improve fuel economy by 37% just by changing the way you [...]
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Few people realize that washing our cars in our driveways is one of the most environmentally un-friendly chores we can do around the house. Unlike household waste water that enters sewers or septic systems and undergoes treatment before it is discharged into the environment, what [...]
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A dirt cheap and 100 percent ecological house that has all the comforts of an ordinary home, without being connected to the electricity grid, waterworks, sewer system or the natural gas network. It does exist, but in most countries, building one is not allowed.
An Earthship [...]
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Ever thought of where stormwater ends up? Poorly-managed stormwater can damage your property and the wider environment – but, managed properly, it can be good for your garden.
Stormwater is the water that runs off surfaces such as houses, roads, driveways, footpaths. In urban areas, it runs down [...]
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Eco Sanitation works on the principle that urine and faeces are not simply waste products of the human [...]
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Here’s a testimonial from one of Water Rhapsody’s high profile clients, Professor Kader Asmal (former Minister of Water Affairs & Forestry, South Africa)
11 February 2010
To Whom it may Concern:
Garden Rhapsody Grey Water Re-using System
“It is very rare that a product, in this case, a new product gives [...]
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Water Rhapsody Water Conservation Systems are the best on the market because:
Homeowners and businesses display their water conservation ethos with pride
1. Saves up to 90% of the money spent on water.
2. All the Water Rhapsody Systems are environmentally sound.
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Watch this interesting, fact-filled video with some surprising information!
Water Rhapsody offers the Multi-Flush toilet flushing mechanism. There’s no need to discard your old water-wasting toilet; our Multi-Flush kit simply replaces the flushing mechanism in your old toilet. The Multi-Flush system is better than any ‘low-flow’ toilet (and much cheaper!) [...]