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Environmental Issue: Wood Burning Fireplaces

If you plan to move to a new home or to build a home, you may draw a line through a fireplace as a necessity. Although people love the warmth, comforting crackling sounds, aromas, and moving light a wood burning fire provides, fireplaces can emit polluted air into your home and into your neighborhood.

Most home shoppers request a fireplace. Home buyers desire a hearth, which symbolizes home. Families gather around the fireplace during holiday celebrations and quiet conversations. Book lovers enjoy curling up next to a fire on a cool afternoon. Many new homes feature fireplaces in the main bedroom. After all, what’s more romantic than a fire?

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Environmental Issues Goes Political

Now that the national election in the Philippines is brewing which is to be held in May of this year, an advocacy group which called themselves as Eco Waste Coalition has a plea to the more than 50 million Filipino voters before they make their final choices for the candidates running for public office.

Their plea to the Filipino electorate is to vote for candidates who will stand up for mother nature and those who “green championed” and who genuinely promote environmental conservation, protection for the common good and building ecological communities that are devoid of trash and pollution.

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Human Sanitation – Green Issues and Environmental Issues

Questions being raised today by the Green movement and by environmentalists apply to sanitation. From the Green perspective the issue is energy use:

How much energy is used in various sanitation approaches?

What kind of energy is used?

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