Archive for the 'Conservation' Category

American Solutions: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less

the Bear at The Absurd Report on Jun 12 2008 | Filed under: Congress, Conservation, Energy Watch, Feature Article

Update on ‘Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIjyT5_2N_I

Our “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” campaign continues to gain momentum. Yesterday, American Solutions delivered the first round of signatures - 350,000 - to the U.S. Senate urging them to take immediate action to lower gas prices by drilling for oil domestically.
We delivered the signatures to [...]

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I Made a New Word XII

MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Jan 26 2008 | Filed under: Conservation, Feature Article

Bot Market
A market that exists in transaction movement only, producing no wealth.
In a stricter definition, a wealth-neutral market created from government regulation, in which the market then takes an active role in creating and refining.
Named after the most horrifying of the beasties on Cracked’s list of the five most horrifying bugs in the world, the [...]

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Even Downplayed, It Still Seems Problematic

Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 11 2007 | Filed under: Conservation, Feature Article

Through Gerry Charlotte Phelps, I heard the story of a woman in Maine who, after breaking a CFL bulb (one of those “green” bulbs), ended up being stuck with a $2,000 hazardous waste disposal bill:
How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? About $4.28 for the bulb and labor — [...]

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