Living Green - Testing your irrigation system
PALMETTO - The Manatee County Extension Service is offering a free service that will save you money. It will also save a valuable natural resource: our water.
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Living Green - Green interior design ideas
SARASOTA - There are countless ways to live green. You can make your home more energy-efficient and you can make it healthier. And now you can also design the inside to be green.
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Living Green - Converting gas cars to electric
SARASOTA - While none of the major automakers are selling plug-in electric vehicles just yet, that doesn't mean you can't be driving one.
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Living Green - Make your Halloween a Hallo-green
SARASOTA - Halloween is fast approaching; and with it: lots of very excited children. But parents can also have some Halloween fun while going green.
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Living Green - Recycling electronic devices
SARASOTA - Recycling is a key ingredient to being green. But there's a lot more to it than paper and plastic bottles; it's called e-waste -- for electronic. TV's, computers, printers...all of them avoiding the landfill and being recycled.
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Living Green - Charlotte County up for green school award, PA town gets serious about recycling
CHARLOTTE COUNTY - A Suncoast school district is in the running for greenest in the state. One community is going all out to convince its citizens to go green.
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Living Green - Habitat For Humanity dedicates new green homes
SARASOTA - Habitat For Humanity has helped thousands of people realize the American dream of owning their own home. And on the Suncoast, some of those new homes are also "green."
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Living Green - Tubular skylights can brighten your day
SARASOTA - In addition to using the sun to power our homes and heat our water, we can also use it to brighten our homes.
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Living Green - What can be recycled and what can't?
SARASOTA - Recycling has become very popular on the Suncoast. But at times, knowing what to recycle and what goes in the trash can be confusing. For instance, why can't you put your empty cardboard pizza boxes into the recycling bin?
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Living Green - No VOC paints
SARASOTA - When it comes time to paint your home, there's an alternative to traditional paints that emits very little odor and is healthy for you and your family.
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Living Green - Suggestions for eco-friendly kitchen
SARASOTA - Families spend a lot of time in the kitchen; it's often the gathering spot in the home. So why not make it as environmentally-friendly as possible.
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Living Green - Suncoast company distributes organic foods
MANATEE COUNTY - Organic foods have never been more popular, and that customer demand has more and more stores and restaurants carrying the products. One Suncoast company is helping area farmers distribute those organic foods.
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Living Green - Green school supplies
SARASOTA - Parents will be hitting stores this week to buy back to school supplies, and when they do, they'll have a lot more "green" choices this year.
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Living Green: A Green Home Inspection
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SARASOTA - Converting your home to be more energy efficient and healthy can seem overwhelming.
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Living Green - Sarasota County extends mercury recovery program
SARASOTA - A Sarasota County program to clean up an environmental and health hazard has worked so well, they've extended it for another month.
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Living Green: Reopening the Florida House
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Work continues to reopen the Florida House, a Suncoast learning center for green living that was moved and now awaits its new mission.
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Living Green - Sarasota County adds to hybrid bus fleet
SARASOTA - The benefits of using public transportation are obvious - it keeps cars off the road. And in Sarasota County, a growing fleet of hybrid buses are showing up on those roads.
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Living Green - Construction company builds green office
LAKEWOOD RANCH - Recently, President Obama talked about the need for our nation to embrace green technologies and sustainable practices in the future. And one Suncoast construction company is already doing that.
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Living Green - Neighborhood installs solar-powered street lights
SARASOTA COUNTY - One Sarasota neighborhood has seen the light...and it's green. The Turtle Rock neighborhood in Palmer Ranch is likely the first in the nation to install street lights powered by the sun.
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Living Green - GreenHome Wamalama Expo
MANATEE COUNTY - You have a chance this weekend to learn a lot more about living green.
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Living Green - Biodegradable boat products
SARASOTA - Anyone who owns a boat knows they require a lot of maintenance. Now you can keep your boat in tip-top shape with products that are safe for the environment.
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Living Green - Guide dogs go green
PALMETTO - Many businesses and organizations are starting to realize that going green is good business. Now one of Manatee County's best known non-profits is using the power of the sun to heat its water.
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Living Green - Installing a rain barrel
SARASOTA - The recent rainfall has helped area lawns and plants after a very dry spring. But you don't have to wait for it to rain to keep your plants happy.
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Living Green - See Water Committee
SARASOTA - A Sarasota County group has come up with an idea it hopes will save everybody money, and more importantly, water.
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Living Green - Eco-friendly paper and paper products
SARASOTA - Having a hard time finding a unique gift for Mother's Day? Why not make it something environmentally friendly.
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Living Green - Environmentally-friendly mulches...and a new eco-consulting service
SARASOTA - The fall and the spring are great times to spruce up your landscaping, and that means adding mulch to your garden beds. But which kinds of mulch are friendly to the environment?
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Living Green - Former landfill is now a park
SARASOTA COUNTY - As we celebrate Earth Day this week, it seems appropriate that we recognize how people can injure, and then repair, Mother Earth. And Sarasota County wants everyone to see what it can do with a former landfill.
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Living Green - Partnership will transform normal cars into hybrids and plug-in electrics
SARASOTA - A unique green project is coming to the Suncoast. It's a partnership that will transform normal cars into gas-sipping hybrids and plug-in electrics.
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Living Green - The Honda Insight hybrid returns
BRADENTON - Tthere's a new player in the hybrid game from the company that first brought the technology to America.
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Living Green - Program rewards builders who build water-saving homes
The homebuilders who are doing the most business these days are the ones who are building green. And there's a new incentive for them to build homes that use a lot less water.
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Living Green - Installing drip sprinklers
SARASOTA - As many people celebrate St. Patrick's Day by wearing green, here are some tips on how to keep things green in your garden. Last week we showed you rain barrels. This week: an easy way to make your yard's irrigation system more efficient.
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Living Green - Rain Barrels
ANNA MARIA ISLAND - The Suncoast is entering its third straight spring dealing with a drought. But what little rain Mother Nature provides, we can collect and save - with rain barrels.
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Living Green - Packing a green lunch
SARASOTA - Trying to live more environmentally-friendly doesn't mean you have to make radical changes to the way you live. There's an easy way moms and dads can save up to $250 a year. All you have to do is pack the right lunch.
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Living Green - Reminders to use reusable grocery bags
SARASOTA COUNTY - It's one of the easiest ways to go green: ditch the plastic bags and bring reusable bags when you go shopping. The hard part is trying to remember to bring them into the store.
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Living Green - Environmentally-friendly pest control
LAKEWOOD RANCH - Bugs are a part of life in Florida; Ants, cockroaches, silverfish...and many others can find ways into our homes. But you don't have to use poison to keep them out.
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