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The state of Vermont has long been hailed as the greenest place in the United States due to the ‘consistent thinking about low-impact living.’ The state, after all, is profuse with trees, farms, and backyard compost heaps. It also has environmentally aware citizens, and no crowded expressways. In other words, Vermont is green basically because [...]

According to Alan Meier, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a leading expert on energy efficiency, “We have entered this new era where essentially everything is on all the time.” ‘The biggest offender is the flat-screen television. As liquid crystal displays and plasma technologies replace the old cathode ray [...]