The Alliance To Save Energy touts energy-efficient remodels as a way to help lower your home energy bills, provide a more comfortable living space and reduce air pollution.

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Cheap fuel and mass-produced cars led to a shortage of road space and the need for pollution controls.

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"You realize the name of the game is to escape pollution and live near a green space, " said Amy Wood, an American ex-pat who has been living in Asia for seven years.

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Many students of climate change argue that, although the artificial release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide works to raise the global temperature, particulate pollution should, by promoting cloud cover and thus reflecting solar energy back into space, have a compensating cooling effect.

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In an era of concern over climate change, Galaxy Suite has no plans so far to offset the pollution implications of sending a rocket to carry just six guests at a time into space.

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