Solar energy systems

Like the power generated by sunlight, that generated by wind is subject to significant daily, seasonal, and locational or geographical fluctuations. And, just as the shading of adjacent trees or buildings can lower the performance of solar arrays, so too can the physical obstruction of terrain and buildings lower the effectiveness of wind turbines. As winds most typically increase in colder months as solar radiation decreases, wind and solar energy systems can work quite well together to supplement one another.

In addition to its location in West Hollywood, Visionary Boutique has a traveling bus that visits festivals like Topanga Canyon Earth Day. Eco-chic to the max, the bus is filled with unique and eclectic items of green culture. Magda, the woman who developed the boutique along with its organic, lifestyle brand counterpart (“Visionary”), promised a discount to visitors interested in getting a good deal on makeup.

What's more, numerous studies over the years, including a recently released Cisco report based on 2,000 company employees who telecommute, have helped build a strong case for the ancillary benefits of telecommuting, including improvements in job satisfaction, reductions in employee turnover and the intangible benefits of improved work-family balance.

People who visit the permanent West hollywood location can dump their old, toxic makeup in an area where the boutique will dispose of the waste (in a safe fashion, of course). In turn, customers can receive ten percent off of the boutiques eco-friendly makeup. How many corporate retailers can boast of that?

Steel is both highly recycled and highly recyclable within a ‘closed loop’. That is, steel components can be recycled virtually indefinitely back into new steel components of an identical nature and performance. This is in contrast to ‘down-cycled’ products, such as certain wooden construction elements, that must always be recycled into something of lessened quality or utility. For example, virgin timber members may be recycled to planar decking or siding, thence to plywood, or flakeboard, or oriented-strand board (OSB).

There are various things you can do to "tweak" the composting process, such as using varying levels of green matter (like vegetable peelings) and brown matter (like crunched up dead leaves), but it's not really an exact science. Some people (primarily outdoor composters) introduce certain worm species to their compost mix to aid the process. While you want to keep bugs like roaches out of your compost, small bugs like wood lice are beneficial. Of course, if you're composting indoors, you probably want to keep insects and worms out altogether, and most home composters do a great job of keeping the pests out.