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Record US Solar Quarter at 449 MW Installed

It should be a celebratory time for solar in the U.S. A record-setting third quarter is in the books, with the U.S. installing 449 megawatts of PV, more than the U.S. installed in all of 2009. The total solar installed this year in the U.S. is already over one gigawatt, according to a recent report [...]

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22 ways to repurpose old magazines

We get quite a few magazines at our house. My husband subscribes to a couple of gaming magazines, and somehow every time we buy concert tickets we end up receiving issues of Rolling Stone in the mail. Couple that with other glossy mailings, like junk mail and catalogs, and we’ve got quite the collection of [...]

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Tips to help your gut

Maintaining a healthy gut isn’t as easy as popping a magic pill. “If you’re going to use probiotics, then drink, smoke and eat badly, that’s not going to cut it,” says Georgianna Donadio, PhD, nutritionist and founder of the National Institute of Whole Health. “The entire system must be in sync; the flora is just [...]

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Computer energy efficiency doubles every 18 months

A new study done by an engineering professor at Stanford University has found that the energy efficiency of computers doubles roughly every 18 months, and has done so since the very first general purpose computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) that was built in 1956. With help from Intel and Microsoft, Professor Jonathan [...]

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16-year-old builds tiny home to guarantee a mortgage-free future

Austin Hay is still in high school, but he’s building his own house. It’s only 130 square feet, but it makes him a homeowner without a mortgage at just 16 years old. Right now, it’s in his parents’ backyard, but he’s built it on wheels so he plans to take it to college and then [...]

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Google Invests in World’s Largest Solar Power Tower Plant

Google has just sealed a deal to invest $168 million in a Mojave Desert solar energy plant. The investment is going to BrightSource Energy, a company that develops and operates large-scale solar power plants, specifically to fund its Ivanpah project. Ivanpah is a solar electric generating system that uses solar thermal technology and “an environmentally [...]

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Webkinz go to the Doctor!

Uh-oh, time for that dreaded oppiontment with……

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GOING GREEN WITH PAPER BAGS!!! – an interview with an idiot

Paper or plastic?

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Linkin Park – Faint (Live) (subtitulos en español)

Linkin Park en vivo la cancion se llama Faint del disco Meteora del año 2003 muy buena cancion claro como todas las que ha sacado espero que les guste subtitulada en español Aqui les dejo las direcciones de otros videos que he hecho pero por causa de que youtube los cancela he tenido la necesidad [...]

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MTV Switch 2008: The Green Song

Agency: 180 Amsterdam Creative Director: Sean Thompson Creatives: Rosita Rawnsley-Mason, Stacey Lee, Hal Kirkland Producer: Sandra Durham Account Director: Kyle Marquis Production Company: Rokkit Executive Producer: Luke Jacobs Animation Company: Deli Pictures Director: Michael Reissinger Producer: Martin Klauder Art Direction: Robert Rhee, Michael Reissinger Motion Graphics and Animation: Robert Rhee, Eike Braselmann VFX: Christoph Zaplethal [...]

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