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Over the last year I have read a few times about the Navy and Marines going “green” and it has me wondering if it is good enough, and efficient enough, for them what about the rest of us? The idea that solar and bio-fuels are somehow inferior to coal and oil will have to be put
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With so much focus these days on the Gulf oil spill (we are still paying attention to this disaster, aren’t we?) many people are more closely taking a look at their use of petroleum based products, which is a good thing… But where to start reducing? Of course our use of gasoline is the most
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I am really excited I just bought a bike! I had not ridden one in more than a decade (actually almost two), except for once when I was house sitting and jumped on a friends bike thinking that I could just hop on and ride through town…it was pretty scary and didn’t last too long.
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This is amazing…. The maiden voyage of a solar-powered airplane took place today in Switzerland without any problems. The plane is designed to fly day and night, without any fuel, so there are absolutely no emissions. The plane is called the Solar Impulse and it has 12,000 solar cells built into its wings. It is a
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There is a wonderful film called No Impact Man (and there is a book version as well) that came out fairly recently about a N.Y. city family that spends a year exploring what it means to live without making any impact on the earth. They went to an extreme that most of us would never
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Today as I was beginning to flatten cardboard boxes for recycling day I admit I was initially annoyed at having to do this. I thought about all of the cardboard that doesn’t get recycled, would my few boxes really matter? Then I thought about what had been in the boxes and I realized that they
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It seems as if we are finally witnessing the rebirth of the electric car. For those of you who remember the EV1, made and leased by GM in the late 90’s, will recall that electric cars once before had seemed like a possibility, but they were literally buried before they had a real life. If