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Do What You Can – Recycle Most people are willing to recycle these days, if you make it easy! Blue box recycle programs are becoming common place and also improving the products they can handle. Buy what about hazardous household products such as left over paint, used batteries (AA, AAA, C,D), CFLs, pesticides, etc.? Most [...]
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Reduce Reuse Recycle – Plus 2 Most of us are familiar with the 3 R’s – Reduce, Reuse & Recycle. In the book, Generation Green, written by Linda Sivertsen & Tosh Sivertsen, they suggest we had two more – RETHINK & REFUSE. Reduce Can I get by with less? Less water in the shower, less [...]
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Wind Turbine Axial Flux Generator DIY Wind Turbines can be very quick and simple to build – a small DC permanent magnet motor, 3 blades cut from PVC pipe and a tail. Mount it on a pipe tower and you are set. Problem is, small D.C. permanent magnet motors, such as the Ametek 30, [...]
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Encourage Eco-Living in Your Community Most communities have several individual groups, each responsible for one specific area or topic, which they are trying to make more “Eco friendly”. These individual, grassroots organizations need our support, as they do make a difference, in their own specific area. Communities that truly standout in their achievements, tend to have [...]
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Evacuated Tube Solar Panels and Snow Evacuated tube solar panels are very efficient at heating. You take a glass tube, add a copper pipe filled with liquid and a heating surface – usually coated copper. Then you pump all the air out. The sun shines on the heating surface, transfers the heat to the tube [...]
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DIY Wind Turbine – DC Motor – Generator Do-it-yourself small wind turbines are quite simple to make. The biggest key to success is picking the right DC Permanent Magnet Motor. The basic parts to a small DIY wind turbine include: Tower – get your wind turbine up high and into clear wind. The higher the [...]
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Detroit Auto Show – No Change Initial pre-show press releases from the “Big 3″ do not look positive. GM, Ford and Chrysler appear to be pushing their big, expensive, huge horsepower, vehicles again this year. While the “Dinosaur 3″ show off huge gas guzzlers that no one wants to purchase, like the Cadillac CTS Sport [...]
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