irrigation system Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 18 Jul 2015 14:39:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 5 Ways to Save Water in the Garden https://www.greenoptimistic.com/save-water-garden/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/save-water-garden/#respond Sat, 18 Jul 2015 14:37:37 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55815 Gardens offer many environmentally friendly benefits. Shade from trees can cool a house to save on cooling costs, and food grown in home gardens can greatly reduce the fossil fuel emissions from transporting groceries around the country. Done the right way, however, a garden can also save water, making it wallet-friendly as well as eco-friendly. 1. Irrigation […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/save-water-garden/feed/ 0 55815 Converting Deserts Into Forests Would Stop Global Warming https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sahara-green-stop-global-warming-20090917/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sahara-green-stop-global-warming-20090917/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:02:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4458 Researcher Leonard Ornstein has come up with a simple plan to stop global warming. He proposes that turning Sahara and the Australian outback into vast, shady forests, could draw down about 8 billion tons of carbon a year, nearly as much as people emit from burning forests and fossil fuels today.

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