I posted a couple of months back about hybrid cars being a patch and that ultra efficient diesels were, I thought, a much better option. This weekend I saw this commercial:
The new Volkswagen Jetta TDI clean diesel. Per the commercial, it gets 58 miles to the gallon and drives and preforms [...]
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This week Charlie Corr wrote an open letter to the printing and paper industries about the difference between the perceived environmental impact of the printing and paper industries and the actual impact. People point to printing and paper as horrible environmentally destructive industries because they are an easy target. I’ve eluded to this fact on [...]
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So a couple of days ago I read where a Dutch company created a new font specifically designed to save toner and ink in desktop printers by using characters with circles cut out of them like my name below:
I’m trying it out on my computer at work for printing out emails and things that quality [...]
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Why are Styrofoam cups still around? I think about this every time I go into a restarant that uses stryrofoam cups. If they are so bad for the environment because they never bio-degrade and because they are produced using HCFCs, why not just use paper cups? Paper cups bio-degrade, aren’t any more expensive to produce, [...]
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So I don’t know about the rest of the state but Atlanta has a major gas shortage right now and has had for about 2 weeks. People are freaking out up here. We drove around looking for gas last week and passed about 15 that were completely out before finding one that had gas. Unfortunately, [...]
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