I just bought some LED bulbs at Home Depot. The bulbs, from Cree and Lighting Sciences, are sold under the “ecosmart” ™ brand. The Lighting Sciences bulbs will go into my bathroom. The CREE bulbs will go into the bedrooms, family room, and the kitchen. Over their 35,000 lifespan, each LED bulb will outlast 14 [...]
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How’s about some arsenic? Whadda ya mean “toxic?” You got a problem wid my pizza pie? Check out the Slice web-site at Serious Eats. Their Coal-Oven Pizzeria map shows about 20 coal-oven pizzerias in the New York City metropolitan area. While a coal fire may produce a perfect heat for baking pizzas, coal fires also [...]
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Tilikum, an Orca, attacked and killed Dawn Brancheau, a trainer at Seaworld, Orlando, on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. As reported in Asia One, Ric O’Barry and Dave Phillips of the Earth Island Institute have called for a federal investigation into the death of Ms. Brancheau. download entire piranha movie In their statement, O’Barry and Phillips [...]
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Architecting a Clean, Secure, Sustainable, Non-Carbon and Non-Nuclear Energy Future 100 Gigawatts offshore wind. $300 Billion. 100 GW land based wind. $200 Billion. 50 GW solar. $325 Billion. 250 GW Clean, renewable, sustainable Energy. $825 Billion. Save the World: Priceless
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There really is no such thing as “Clean Coal.” Mining coal destroys mountains, and often kills the miners. Burning coal releases tons of carbon into the atmosphere and the oceans, and even if you could sequester the carbon, burning coal releases other pollutants, including mercury into the biosphere. The mercury makes its way into fish. [...]
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