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Green Tip and Trade

Paint Your Roof White

Christina Huh Nov 25, 2010

One of the easiest ways to green your roof is to paint it white. This affordable home-improvement trick earned the support of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who said that a unified switch to heat-reflecting white roofs and pavement would be the emissions-reducing equivalent of taking all the world’s cars off the road for 11 years.

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