The Sustainable Future

Sustainable living tip: Deep soak your lawn

When watering the lawn, do it long enough for the moisture to soak down to the roots where it will do the most good. A light sprinkling can evaporate quickly and tends to encourage shallow root systems. Put an empty tuna can on your lawn - when it's full, you've watered about the right amount.

Source:
eartheasy: 25 ways to save water at home

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Clean tech stocks outperform the market

Looking for some green stock tips? It's a good year for clean tech stocks so far, as Tyler over on Clean Break points out...

The Cleantech Index, which tracks 47 publicly traded companies in the cleantech sector, is doing quite well these days. If you managed to invest in the PowerShares Cleantech Portfolio (ticker: PZD on the AMEX) in early March, you've enjoyed a 24 per cent return on your shares -- not bad...

...Since the beginning of the year, the Cleantech Index has seen an 18 per cent increase, compared to 8 per cent from the Nasdaq Composite Index, 7 per cent from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index and 7 per cent from the S&P 500 Index. It's a positive reflection on the sector and the opportunity.

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