When it comes to living green, a major component is your actual house or apartment. Making sure your dwelling is green includes the materials used to build your home, (a long story in itself) and another issue is home size. When it comes to green homes, smaller is better if you’d like to lower your footprint. The last component of green housing is the community you live in.

Community and where you live in said community goes a long way toward being or not being green. If your home is green, but in a terribly un-green community or you live so …read more

A report released today, the 2009 State of the Air report by the American Lung Association highlights the U.S. cities with the worst air quality. The report ranks metropolitan areas by the levels of ozone and particle pollution during 2005, 2006 and 2007 using data found in monitoring sites across the United States and data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
According to this report, the following cities are the top 10 most polluted in the U.S. (with Los Angeles earning top honors – or bad honors I suppose):

Los Angeles
Bakersfield
Visalia
Fresno
Houston
Sacramento
Dallas-Fort Worth
Charlotte
Phoenix
El …read more