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GREEN GLOSSARY

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Eco-friendly - Little or no impact on the native eco-system.

Ecological Footprint - The area of land and water needed to produce the resources to entirely sustain a human population and absorb its waste products with prevailing technology. The concept of an ecological footprint is used as a resource management and community-planning tool.

Embodied Energy - Total energy used to create a product, including the energy used in mining or harvesting, processing, fabricating, and transporting the product.

Energy Efficiency - Ratio of energy output of a conversion process or of a system to its energy input.