Columbus Ohio may be good at creating chain restaurants and the insurance business, but it is not good at public transport. Of course with cheap gas flowing through its veins Columbus has sprawled and built countless highways and no one seemed to care – until now that is. Now that gas is riding up towards [...]
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Recently I rearranged my bedroom and in the process unearthed and set loose more dust than should really develop in 2 years, or even 10. Since then I also came down sick and while it may have been coincidence it got me interested in the air quality in the room I essentially spend the most [...]
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Just saw this morning the news that Australia is going to ban in three years traditional incandescent lightbulbs in a bid to reduce green house gas emissions. If you didn’t see the earlier post on CFLs you may wonder how a country could do this, but after trying out these bulbs I think that despite [...]
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Last week I heard a story about (see and listen here at NPR.org) Wal-Mart hyping up CFLs and the big push they are going to be making in their stores. What is a CFL? They are compact flouresent lights, those funny looking lightbulbs with a twisty spiral of fluorescent tubes, but that fit in traditional [...]
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The Washington Post had an article with five ‘myths’ about suburban expansion, the paving of of America and car travel , namely… Americans are addicted to driving; Public transit can reduce traffic congestion; We can cut air pollution only if we stop driving; We’re paving over America; We can’t deal with global warming unless we [...]
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If you don’t know Tesco is a massive UK retailer / grocer who garners often the same criticism that Wal-Mart does. Tesco grew to be so large based on low prices and gets criticism to go with that, as is par for the course it seems. On the BBC today I heard an interview that [...]
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