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Make everyday Earth Day with these green ideas for your home

Posted by Annalisa Burgos | April 22, 2010

Happy Earth Day!

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the official start of the environmental movement, your friends at FrontDoor want to offer these valuable tips for living green:

• Get paid to make energy efficient improvements to your home and lower your power bills in the process
• Learn how to build a green home
• Find an existing home with eco-friendly features
• Work with a green real estate professional
• Learn how to retrofit your home to dramatically lower your energy use
• Check out amazing energy efficient homes for sale
• Enter to win HGTV’s Green Home, a New England cottage-style home outside of Cape Cod, Mass.

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Green real estate tips for Earth Day and beyond

Posted by Annalisa Burgos | April 22, 2009

Happy Earth Day! FrontDoor.com is joining the worldwide effort to promote awareness and appreciation for the environment with these green real estate tips:

Think about the advantages of making green updates to your home. Energy savings, for one! If you’re a seller, replace old energy-hogging appliances with Energy Star ones. You’ll not only increase your home’s value, but you’ll attract more buyers. See the top 10 reasons to go green now.

You don’t need to shell out tons of money to make green updates. A simple one is changing light bulbs from incandescent to fluorescent. Learn more ways it can pay to be environmentally friendly.

Do your part to save trees! Bamboo or cork make great alternatives to hardwood floors. Learn more about eco-friendly flooring.

Make recycling a household habit. Find inspiration in our slideshow of 10 Green Home Updates.

Get more eco-friendly tips for buying, selling and financing a home in our Green Real Estate Guide at http://www.frontdoor.com/Buy/All-About-Green-Real-Estate/1661.

Speaking of green, don’t forget to sign up for HGTV’s Green Home Giveaway. The home is decked out with the latest in green technology and it’s in lovely Port St. Lucie, Florida. Enter now!

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