Green purchases Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:15:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Wind Energy Helps Lift Higher Education in the US https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-energy-helps-lift-higher-education-us-20141002/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-energy-helps-lift-higher-education-us-20141002/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:15:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49356 Student loans int he US reached $1.2 trillion and many coeds are drowning in debt because of rising tuition fees caused by soaring the costs of running a school. In order to keep energy costs in check and reduce their carbon footprint, a number of American universities are turning to clean energy initiatives like buying […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-energy-helps-lift-higher-education-us-20141002/feed/ 0 49356 Green Purchases Motivated by Money And Not Saving the World https://www.greenoptimistic.com/green-purchases-motivated-by-money-and-not-saving-the-world-20130620/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/green-purchases-motivated-by-money-and-not-saving-the-world-20130620/#respond Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:53:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38564 Good news! More and more Americans care about energy efficient products. Over 50% of Americans have bought energy efficient appliances, 61% say they want an automobile that gets more than 30 mpg, and the majority of people are switching to energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs. According to a new report from Yale and George Mason […]

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