Here, 1000 Green Steps quite have an answer for that. Many small appliances and home electronics use electricity even when switched off. So yes, they are consuming electricity when it is still on plugged position although nobody is using it.

By unplugging one not-in-use TV, computer monitor and printer, consumers save more than $70 a year. It doesn’t make sense that you have to pay for what you don’t use, right?

Save money on electricity bill and save our planet by cutting off unnecessary electricity usage by unplugging appliances that are not in use.

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The  green energy sector which is growing rapidly in India is expected to create about one million new jobs in India over the next two years.

A ‘green job’ is employment in any industry that contributes to preserving or restoring environmental quality. A green job can be a white or blue-collar job in any sector: agriculture, manufacturing, research and development, administration and service activities such as IT, finance, teaching and so on.

“These are just a few sectors and jobs out of the hundreds of jobs that will be transformed and created into the future,” Kamal Meattle, the Promoter of GreenSpaces and CEO of the Paharpur Business Centre & Software Technology Incubator Park, said.

Echoing a similar sentiment, Udit Mittal, the Managing Director of Unison International, an HR consultancy firm, said the scope is so vast that “around one million green jobs will be generated in India over the next two years.”

PETA will launch their own porn website to draw the attention of millions of Internet surfers. The animal rights group will use some obvious changes to Internet domain names in order to register themselves to operate the www.peta.xxx website.

“We are preparing to launch our own peta.xxx site, but instead of just showing people our iconic ads we then show them how animals suffer for entertainment,” News.com.au quoted spokeswoman Ashley Byrne as saying.

However, the sexy side PETA displayed in galleries and videos will quickly give way to the menacing world of animal mistreatment revealed by the group’s hidden camera investigations in a very different kind of graphic content.

“Our racier actions are sometimes a way to get people to sit up and pay attention to the plight of animals,” she said. Initially, the watchers will be shown the animal rights groups too hot for TV ads and campaigns.

Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, one million extra tons of garbage is generated each week in the U.S.

However, with a little green thinking and effort, we might be able to reduce that figure significantly.

1. Christmas tree

Plant a small potted tree and use it for Christmas each year.

Although artificial trees cost un-renewable energy to produce, if you can use it year after year, it shouldn’t be too bad.

If you must have a real cut tree, most cities have a program to recycle it into mulch and compost.

2. Lights

Switch to LED Christmas lights. They are 90% more efficient than traditional ones. They also last longer and emit little heat.

3. Gift wrap

Save wrap from previous years and reuse it.

Use newspaper, old calendars, posters, magzines, or catalogues as gift wrap (better yet, skip the wrapping).

Recycle any wrap that is no longer useful.

4. Other

Recycle greeting cards, gift tags, and especially cardboard or use them for crafts.  Avoid using disposable tableware. Save and reuse holiday decorations.

Hope we all have a greener holiday this year. For more green holiday ideas, click here.

So, now that Copenhagen Climate Talk is over, some of you might be wondering on what actually is happening and hopefully changing in tropical forests now. Not much it seems. Forests remain under threat for all the same reasons that we’ve historically cut them down—illegal logging, industrial agriculture expansion, and destructive “development” projects. At least for one more year, business as usual is certainly going to continue and tropical forests will probably continue to be lost at the shocking rate of 1 acre/second.

But the most depressing fail for the forests out of Copenhagen is the lack of binding targets to reduce fossil fuel emissions and start to halt climate change. If global temperatures rise above 2 degrees C, most scientists predict that tropical forests will be profoundly affected, experiencing extreme droughts, increased forest fires and other catastrophic weather events. Even if a separate deal to reduce deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries had been agreed upon, the lack of commitment to deep fossil fuel emissions in a legally binding climate change agreement would continue to threaten the world’s forests.

We can’t save the forests if we don’t save the climate. And that means that REDD without a larger climate deal is no deal at all.

1. Vision.

Diabetes can cause blood vessels to leak into the retina, leading to blurry vision or blindness. It can also cause cataracts and glaucoma to develop. Get eye exams regularly.

2. Mouth.

Tooth and gum problems are more likely to happen in diabetic patients. See your dentist twice a year.

3. Skin.

Skin often feels dry, itchy and easy to crack in diabetic patients. Cracked skin are easily infected too. Use moisturizer.

4. Feet.

Nerve damage and circulation problems in diabetes often lead to serious foot problems, such as infection and amputation. Check your feet daily for injuries and see your doctor if it doesn’t heal after one day.

5. Heart.

Diabetic patients have a higher risk of heart attack and stroke. Monitor your blood pressure and cholesterol levels and get treatments if they are abnormal.

6. Kidney.

Damage to blood vessels in diabetes may damage kidneys. Have your urine checked out for protein once a year to monitor kidney function.

Source: webmd.com

Ionizing air cleaners, or ionizers, produce ozone, a byproduct of the process of electrically charging and trapping air particles.

Ozone is a supercharged form of oxygen. High level of ozone has been linked to increases in premature deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular causes.

Consumer Report and Consumers Union have been testing indoor air cleaners for close to 20 years.

They recommended Consumer Product Safety Commission set indoor ozone limits for air cleaners and suggested the Federal Trade Commission keep an eye on air cleaner ads to prevent deceptive claims.

Consumer Reports have issued full reports on ionizing air cleaner models. To check out which are the safer products, go to Consumer Reports website.

As we all know, on Wednesday (January 27), a blown-up version of iPhone was released. Weighing 1.5 pounds, just 0.5 inch thick, and 11 inches tall, the iPad makes it possible to fool around with songs, watch movies, read books, and run all the supplementary tens of thousands of applications obtainable in the Apple’s depots. The question: How green is it?

Being aware of the curious public it faces, Apple soon declared the ‘green’ feature iPad has to offer. They admit that this awaited gadget follows Apple Environmental Policies, which means no malicious chemical like arsenic, mercury, nor PVC.

Some bloggers at Engadget claims Apple’s latest iPad was the Next Green Thing by its ‘highly recyclable’ feature and if you are not interested in awards at least get familiar with its great green attributes.

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First, harvest veggies and preserve any extra by canning, freezing, drying or storing in a celler according to the variety to provide you with home grown veggies even in the coldest winter.

Then pull all annual crops and flowers when they are done, as well as any weeds, and put them in your compost bin to make organic compost.

Third, work 1-2 inches of organic compost and/or grass clippings into your garden beds to amend the soil. Then put a layer of mulch, such as fallen leaves, to cover the beds, which will prevent weeds from growing in the spring.

Next spring you will have garden beds with rich soil ready for planting.