Archive for the Tag 'eco'

Battery Recycling

I know it's a pretty bad thing to be throwing away batteries, but in the past that's pretty much what I've always done having not known how to get rid of them. Turns out there are plenty of places locally to take them to. This site shows you all the places in your zip code [...]

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Who Killed The Electric Car

This is another “I'm not sure why it exists for free out there” links, but the other environmental-ish movie from this year, Who Killed The Electric Car is on Google Video. I had seen the previews for this one for quite some time and was waiting for it to show up in Madison here, but [...]

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The CFL

Back when I was talking about the Gore movie and MG&E's little mailing that mentioned changing one bulb to a compact fluorescent and the energy/cost savings it incurs throughout the city, I didn't know the extent to which those numbers expanded to when extrapolated to the rest of America. It would appear that it's quite [...]

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More inconvenience

Here's a 43 minute interview with Al Gore about what he talks about most lately, and the subject of my post a couple down from here. After watching even part of this and noting that he was saying the exact same things in the movie and only offering slightly more when prodded, and completely avoiding [...]

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An Inconvenient Truth

Well, after two failed attempts to see Superman this week, the next open time slot was to see An Inconvenient Truth. Now, while the movie was really just preaching to the choir for me, and by the looks of it, most of the other people in the theater, it did alter my viewpoint even further, [...]

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Water waste help

I've been looking online and not finding much, but I'm wondering if there is something you can do to essentially “turn in” someone who wastes water. Case in point, my landlord and this house. Those in the area know that for the last 24 hours we have gotten roughly 3″ of rain, and probably more [...]

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