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clipped from www.terracycle.net The company has set up nearly 4,000 trash-collecting brigades across the country, mostly from schools, churches and other nonprofit groups. They are paid two cents per wrapper or pouch. TerraCycle covers the cost of collection, including shipping, by securing sponsorships from the various food manufacturers; typically $150,000 to $350,000 per year depending on how many brigades are sponsored. TerraCycle then sends the trash to its factories in Mexico to be refashioned into new products for retail.

• Save money (more than $100 a year on electric bills for most households)
  

  Clothesline
• Conserve energy and the environment
• Clothes last longer. Where do you think lint comes from?
• It is physical activity, which you can do inside or outside.
• Sunlight bleaches and disinfects.
• Indoor racks can humidify in dry winter weather.
• Clothes dryer fires account for about 15,600 structure fires, 15 deaths and 400 injuries annually. The yearly national fire loss for clothes dryer fires in structures is estimated at $99 million.

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The Classic is street legal for surface streets 35 MPH or less. The Sunray and Kudo vehicles can be made street legal. They come with VIN#’s. They do recommend you check with your state and community regarding the laws in your area.

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Natural Gas prices are up over 60% since December 2007. Pizza parlors and bakeries are going under since they can’t afford to run their ovens. Utility companies are passing the cost on to these customers, even those who have budget plans.

But the big whammy - electricity costs will also rise this summer. Electricity is being generated by either coal, nuclear, or natural gas in the USA.

We are considering stocking up on candles and living in our basement during hot days.

Let me here some comments about this rising cost.

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool.   All service stations have their storag
   

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   e tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. 
2. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full, because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm.
3. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high.  You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered.  If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money

 

 

 

The kit consists of two hybrid electric motors with rare earth permanent magnets that are mounted on the outside of the vehicle, which are tied to a 72V 120Ah Deep Cycle Lead Acid battery pack on the inside. According to Poulsen, once installed, the system effectively turns a front-wheel drive car into an all-wheel drive car, and results in a driving "effect" that is " equivalent to freewheeling down a 3% grade," with the accelerator needing to be depressed less or not at all to keep the car moving

Poulsen intends to make its kit available to the general public in the not to distant future, and for the relatively bargain price of $3,300, no less (add an extra $600 to that if you don't think you're up to installing it yourself).

While Al Gore, Bono, and the United Nations want to place a carbon tax on us, they remain silent about these alternatives:

1. Stop suing people who don’t produce garbage
2. New home construction can use rain harvesting
3. Re-build communities so churches, schools, and shopping are within walking distance
4. Have governments’ do more than symbolic efforts
5. Stop Saturday mail delivery
   
6. Put timers on streetlights
7. Automate toilet flushing in public areas (stadiums where 100,000 fans flush toilets)
8. Use public service announcements and direct mail to convince businesses to turn off computers and fluorescent lights at the end of the day
9. Go back to local organic farming (Food travels nearly 1500 miles from producer to consumer)
10. Ticket trucks and buses that leave their diesel engines idling constantly
11. Find alternatives to all the petroleum based products we use (Ammonia, Anesthetics, Antihistamines, Artificial limbs, Artificial Turf…Lip Stick, Milk Jugs, Nail Polish, Oil Filters, Pantyhose, Perfume, Petroleum Jelly, Rubber Cement, Rubbing Alcohol, Shampoo, Shaving Cream, Shoes, Toothpaste, Trash Bags, Upholstery, Vitamin Capsules, Yarn)