Dr. Peter Tsou of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory once said, “you could take a two- or three-bedroom house, insulate it with aerogel, and you could heat the house with a candle. But eventually the house would become too hot.” So why haven’t we all been spraying our building’s with the stuff? Unfortunately, for the past [...]
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ITALY’S Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that receive the government’s quality assurance label may now be sold in boxes. Op-Ed Contributor – Wine in a Box Protects the Environment and Saves You Money – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com. Box wine should become mainstream (i.e. put good wine in it) as it is a [...]
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So a bit ago I ordered some new work shirts from Brooks Brothers online during a big sale they had (their non-iron shirts are amazing). Anyway I also ordered a replacement pair of the little knotted string cuff links (the only kind I’ll wear generally, a more casual and cool looking I think , just [...]
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So those of you who know me know that I am all for high gas prices. Yes you read that right, HIGH GAS PRICES, see I said it again. Why? Am I nuts? Well since I was lobbying earlier for a $1 a gallon gas tax (on the coat tail of an article by Thomas [...]
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I finished up Pillars of the Earth the other day and instead of starting in on another page turner (Pillars was just such a book, despite the topic of being about the building of a cathedral the book moves really fast and you get pretty taken into the back stabbing, the rivalries, and the crazy [...]
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By cutting 100 million plastic bags a year San Francisco will save 1.5 million litres of oil, and eliminate 4.2 million kilograms of carbon dioxide…. 180 million: Roughly the number of plastic shopping bags distributed in San Francisco each year. 2 to 3 cents: Amount each bag costs markets, compared with anywhere from 5 to [...]
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I read awhile ago about a UK push to make illegal those little standby lights that are on so many devices today (red light showing the dvd player is plugged in, but off See Times UK). Apparently these little lights which alone may not use a lot of power, together waste lots and lots of [...]
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Well the house in this story isn’t really energy free, its just that it gathers all the energy from the sun and earth without solar panels or other electronics. So how does it work? Well I can’t say I fully understand but after watching a video on it on youtube and reading about it, I’ll [...]
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For the first time in a long time home sizes in America have stopped growing and some people long relegated to the suburbs are considering moving into smaller, inner suburb or city locations. Why the change? Well for one with family sizes shrinking, an aging population that is living longer and the traffic and commutes [...]
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Bottled water is and has been the rage here in the states and for companies, restaurants, ballparks and anyone out to make a buck, it is truly amazing, marking up essentially free water means high profit levels for everyone along the way. Bottled water in third world countries makes sense (although this too hopefully can [...]
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