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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Buy Green Power from Your Local Utility
While the costs of setting up a solar or wind power system for an individual home can be prohibitive, there is another option. You can buy green power from the utility you already use. For a nominal fee (we pay four dollars a month) you pay your utility a little extra to buy [...]
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Saturday, December 9th, 2006
Lets Say We Solve the Fossil Fuel Problem, Then What? Just Ask the Whales.
A Statement of the Obvious.
My Fellow Americans,
As citizens of This Great Nation, we Americans, regardless of our political affiliations, burn more energy per person than a vast majority of the 6.4 billion (and counting) people on the planet today. Thus, our energy footprint is disproportionately large. And, as much of our energy comes [...]
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Cut Down on your Carbon with Slate.com
Slate.com has a step by step list of instructions that will help you cut your carbon emissions. Check it out here.
http://www.slate.com/id/2151739/
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
General Motors Goes Solar, with Some Help from Some Friends.
The idea of solar power holds spectacular promise. The Sun is, after all, the Sun. However, for most people, or corporations, the startup costs of installing a solar power system outweigh the financial return. It will take years to recoup the cost of putting up solar panels. However, if incentives are available to help consumers [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Solar by Pete Lauf
Friday, October 20th, 2006
On Wilderness and Children
If you look out the first small window in the front bedroom of our house, you can catch glimpses of Mount Si and the foothills of the Cascade Range between the houses across the street. It is an odd view, similar to looking out at the Grand Canyon through missing boards on a fence. But [...]
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
The Missing Link in the Smart Growth Chain
Snoqualmie (C’mon, say it with me: Snow kwal me) is a typical small town in Western Washington. Typical means it has two distinct faces. Old Snoqualmie has an intact downtown and a railway museum with real live trains. Thomas the Tank Engine visits in the summer. In the new portion of [...]
