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Heat Pumps Take on Cold Climates

Cars That Think

states and two Canadian provinces, where furnaces and boilers burning fossil gas, fuel oil or propane are more commonly used. For households that are currently heating with electric resistance heat, fuel oil, or propane, heat pumps could save thousands of dollars annually. In the U.S., Europe is making a similar push.

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

Creative Greenius

A beaming Alison Diaz, ECHS’ Founder and Executive Director was at the center of it all on the campus that started as an idea in her head and then in a church basement in 1999. The Pacific Coast Termite grant also funded an environmentally friendly XT-2000 Orange Oil termite treatment for the greenhouse.

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