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Minus Oil: The 50 Year Toaster vs the Five Dollar Toaster

Friday, 8 October, 2010 - 09:45
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(author unknown)
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TreeHugger

When I was a kid, we had a Toastmaster toaster. It was, as the ad says, "Lovely to look at, delightful to use, sure to endure." I think my mom still has it and still works. But being "a combination of classic beauty, perfect product performance and remarkable time-defying endurance" (yes, the ad says that too) is no longer what drives product design; now it is to be sold in Walmart for five bucks, in itself a remarkable story of manufacturing and retailing efficiency.

The five dollar toaster and the 50 year toaster are both laudable goals, but when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions and getting off oi...Read the full story on TreeHugger read more »

Cyclone Power Technologies Receives Sixth U.S. Patent for its Green Engine

Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 - 16:50
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Business Wire Energy: Alternative Energy News

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cyclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets: CYPW) announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Patent Allowance on the pre-heater coil of the Company’s heat-regenerative external combustion engine. The patented pre-heater coil serves two important functions for the Cyclone Engine. First, it absorbs heat from expanding steam at the instant it escapes from the engine’s cylinders to pre-heat the working fluid, de-ionized water,...

Grape Solar Enters Arizona Residential Solar Market

Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 - 15:00
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Business Wire Energy: Alternative Energy News

EUGENE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grape Solar Enters Arizona Residential Solar Market

Vegas Goes Vegan

Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 - 12:41
Author: 
Katie Leavitt
Source: 
News at Tonic.com

For a long time Las Vegas was known for its incredibly cheap food options. $3.99 steak dinner at 3 a.m., anyone? Then the tables turned, with the explosion of upscale restaurants with famous chefs at the helm. Now, the latest food frenzy to take the town by storm, is the inclusion of several vegan options on every menu of Wynn property restaurants.

Rumor has it that Steve Wynn has gone vegan himself, along with a number of his right-hand men. read more »

US motorists warm to electric car invasion

Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 - 12:13
Author: 
author@nospam.vnunet.com (BusinessGreen.com staff)
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BusinessGreen.com staff, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 24 August 2010 at 16:13:00

Research from Consumer Electronics Association finds 40 per cent of US adults want to test-drive an electric vehicle

Four out of 10 US adults are keen to test-drive an electric vehicle (EV), a new study has found, suggesting manufacturers in the emerging sector could be pushing against an... read more »

For The Irie Driver: Electic Car With Hemp Seats

Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 - 11:09
Author: 
sweitzman@gmail.com (Solarfeeds.com)
Source: 
Solar Feeds

Doing drugs bad, since it directly ruins your health and indirectly the environment and shortens the life line of both. Well, cannabis usually ends up being smoked around the world. Some folks use it to make cars instead. Amazing, isn’t it? Read on. The Kestrel, a car that will show up at the EV 2010 VE Conference and Trade Show in Vancouver, was produced by Motive, a company that uses advanced materials in car manufacturing. The four seats of...

EPA Approves Mahindra Diesel Pickup For U.S.

Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 - 10:58
Author: 
Christopher DeMorro
Source: 
Gas 2.0



I absolutely love trucks. I used to sit in the back seat of my mom’s Ford Escort and marvel up at all the trucks like the ones my dad drove. Hell, my pop drove the same ‘88 F-150 for almost 20 years. I am older and wiser now, and I know all the drawbacks to driving a big pickup, but I still love them. I just wish someone would come out with a small, affordable diesel pickup…

Oh wait, somebody has. It is an Indian company called Mahindra, and they have been working on bringing their aptly-named Pickup to the U.S. for some time now. The vehicle has finally won EPA approval for sale in the U.S., bringing it one step closer to actually making it to dealerships.

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Green Your Kid's Packed School Lunch: The Buy Guide (Slideshow)

Tuesday, 24 August, 2010 - 10:23
Author: 
(author unknown)
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TreeHugger

Photo via Goodbyn

Back-to-school means new notebooks, new backpacks, and, of course, a new lunchbox. But this year, trade plastic superheroes and disposable paper bags for lunch accessories and kits that mean less waste, more durability, and a prime spot for your kid at the coolest lunch table in the cafeteria. A packed lunch can also be much cheaper and healthier than the standard french fry heavy school fare.

From compartmentalized boxes and reusable stainless steel containers to organic cloth napkins and the classic spork, these products will send ...Read the full story on TreeHugger read more »

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