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Why does McDonald’s have a recycling symbol on their packaging but no recycling bins in their restaurants?
Am I the only person annoyed that The Onion now does real news and fake news?
You should play Budget Hero. This cool website lets you make choices to balance the budget and see how they stack up against […]

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You’re an educated, enlightened recycler, right? You walk to work, you use the “good” light bulbs, and you maintain that Al Gore was robbed. But do you compost? No? Why not?
According to the Green Culture website, food waste accounts for 30% of our trash. By composting you can reduce your environmental footprint quite a bit. […]

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Six days ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his gang unveiled the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008.    This planned legislation was to be an answer to the conflict between Hillary’s populist tax holiday ploy and Obama’s opposition to it.  Here’s a synopsis with my commentary.
They say: The Consumer-First Energy Act will roll back $17 […]

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Why aren’t more magazines digital?  Mother Jones is the only one I know of.  To me, it’s a no-brainer.  Magazines are a tremendous waste of paper.  The company saves money on the postage.  Assuming they can’t keep you from emailing the .pdf file, what they lose in sales they make up for in added […]

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We continually hear in the press about “change” as a theme for the 2008 election. Regardless of the outcome, two things are certain. First, it appears we will have our first Senator elected directly to the Presidency since President Kennedy in 1960. Second, not much is going to change.
Barring […]

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My environmental rant for the day is directed at my son’s school.  He’s in kindergarden, and they’re all about the planet.  He told me the other day in the car that I was killing the Earth because we drive the van to the grocery store (2 miles away) instead of walking.  It seems like every […]

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Those who know me know that I delight in the hypocrisy of environmentalists. I’m a huge fan of watching people who lined up to buy An Inconvenient Truth committing conservation faux pas because it might inconvenience them. You know the type: Democratic governors who drive SUVs, former VPs with utility bills greater than […]

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1.  Law requiring all new cars made or imported into the U.S. to be flex-fuel capable.  This means the car would run on gas, ethanol, or any other fuel.
Can it be done?  Yes, it can.  The Big 3 in Detroit not only have the technology, they’ve made and sold cars like this before.
2.  Law requiring […]

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On July 7, 2007, eco-friendly music fans will unite around the world for the Live Earth concert series.  Now if we can get them to care for the rest of the year we’ll be making progress.  I don’t mean to sound cynical.  I know that the organizers of the Live Earth concert aim to raise […]

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As we finish off April and roll into May, I want to offer full accountability for my predictions of last week.  Full accountability is something people who follow politics may not be familiar with, I realize.  Below are the calls I made last Monday on this site, along with actual events, and my calls for […]

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