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January 26th, 2008

Can We Be Oil Independent?

Is this really possible? Can we really rid ourselves of being too “attached” to oil?
Well, according to some scientists from the United States, they have come up with a plan that would make us shy away from using oil. They say that they are proposing a project that would make use of solar energy instead. […]

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January 1st, 2008

LEDs Light Up Rockefeller Center’s Tree

For this year, the Christmas tree over at the Rockefeller Center in New York City is a Norway Spruce. It stands some 84 feet tall and it sure has become the center of attraction of those who are in the area. The tree is surely green and I mean it literally and figuratively. See, it […]

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December 21st, 2007

Solar Attic Fan

While some countries this December to January is experiencing snow and the weather is really cool, our friends from Australia is feeling the opposite.
Based on the temperature forecast at wxmaps.org a good portion of the country would be experiencing about 30+ celcius. This solar gadget would probably be a nice addition to their […]

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November 6th, 2007

Canberra May Become Full-Time Solar Powered Soon

There are already around 50 homes in Canberra, Australia which make use of solar power. And according to the country’s officials, they are planning on paying these solar power using households four times than what they are receiving now “for the unused electricity they sell back to the power grid”.
The officials believe that this could […]

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October 18th, 2007

Recycling With Friends And Neighbors

The nearest recycling center is quite a distance away from your neighborhood. And when you think about it, you would be spending much on gas just to send out just a small number of items for recycling.
One of the things you could do would be to organize your neighbors and your friends. Together, you can […]

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October 17th, 2007

Traveling For The Environment

Unless we all walked to work or to school or to wherever we are going, we are going to ride in transportation that emit harmful gases to the environment. Of course we cannot just stop using vehicles. We can help lessen the gases that our environment waddles in.
One of the most common ways of helping […]

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October 13th, 2007

What Can You Do To Save Electricity

Imagine a life without electricity. Just how dark and dreary our world could be when night falls. And that would also mean no electric cars, no television sets, no iPods, no computers, and no refrigerators.
We all know how important electricity is in our lives so it is also essential that we do our share to […]

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October 1st, 2007

More Home Owners Opting For Wind Power

It is very interesting to learn that more and more owners of homes are opting to use wind power instead of the conventional sources of energy. And as time passes, more and more are acquiring small wind turbine electrical generators for their humble abodes.
Cathy Simms and her husband live in Wall Township in New Jersey. […]

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September 26th, 2007

Sony’s Sugar Power

Last August 23rd, Sony has informed the industry and the world about a prototype that they have been working on. This is a bio battery prototype and “bio battery” when defined actually means a device that can create energy through sugar (and all other carbohydrates).
What does it do? According to the company, the bio battery […]

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September 20th, 2007

Swiss Adventurer Promotes Solar Energy

Louis Palmer is Swiss and he is an adventurer. What he is currently doing right now is he is driving mile by mile to reach all the different places of the world and at the same time be able to go around the whole Earth.
Now we could all do that. What is different about him […]

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