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Archive for January, 2010

Reducing Electric Bill

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

The Electric bill can get pretty expensive in the southern part of the US during the summer.  The A/C units are cranked on almost full time which sucks up electricity, and mony out of your wallet.  There are also unneeded electronics that draw power full time, even when powered off.  Here are a few suggestions [...]

Power to Choose

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Powertochoose.com is a great way to save money, and to come up with more environmental solutions for your household electric needs.  Powertochoose is a Texas company, only for use by Texas residents, but it compares electric company rates and specials. 
Many of the larger companies have overcharged for years, and continue to raise rates.  Fortunately, you [...]

Easy Recycling

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Recycling can be a pain sometimes.  There’s the sorting, the extra trips to the trash can, the cleaning, and in general, it’s just not fun.  However,  if you are organized in your recycling process, you’ll find that it’s actually easy and benefitial for you.   Because I don’t like to make trips to the recycle bin [...]

Make Money Recycling

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

It’s actually somewhat easy to make some money or benefits by recycling and reusing products. First off, recycling is a good thing no matter how you look at it. Landfills are increasing in size drastically, and will only continue to grow as we use up more resources. Recycling is the answer to [...]

What’s Hypermiling

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

It’s a set of techniques used to increase the gas mileage you your car. The techniques involve accelerating slower, braking less, drafting, and typically trying to prevent the amount of time that your car is sitting idle doing nothing. There are also technical things that you can do to your car to help [...]

Recycle Bank

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Recycle bank is a really cool way to earn benefits based on how much you recycle.
If your city has the technology, they will install a scanner on your recycle bin. Every time the recycling truck comes by, it automatically scans the bin, and weighs the material that is recycled. Then recycle [...]

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Sunday, January 10th, 2010

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