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Entries from January 29th, 2009

Alpha, Biojet, Charlie: Sustainable Biofuels Take Flight

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Alternative Energy

Virgin Atlantic Successfully Uses Biofuel In Plane
from an earlier post last year…

The wild blue yonder is getting greener.
On February 24, 2008 a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 took a 40-minute flight from London to Amsterdam using a 20 percent biofuel in one of the plane’s four engines. The test was to determine if biofuels could perform [...]

Eco-Friendly Technology Recycling: GreenDisk

January 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Green Guides

Recycling Tech Junk and Unused or Old Computer Stuff

The other day at work, a colleague who sits opposite my desk was replacing an old, broken hard drive from his Mac. As many of you will know, these things are about ten inches by about four or five inches, maybe an inch and a half deep [...]

The New 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid Is Here

January 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Hybrid and Green Cars

2009 Honda Civic Hybrid

Official Site of the 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid
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Urban Gardening

January 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Green Guides

The Basics of Urban Gardening

Life in the urban environment doesn’t necessarily have to spell barren landscapes of hard, emotion-less settings and surfaces of concrete and metal. There are plenty of parks, trees and vegetation to blend in enough of the rural scenery that we too comfortably call the opposite of urban living. For some, though, [...]

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How to Dispose of Medications in an Environmentally Safe Way

January 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Green Guides

What to Do With Unused Medication

It’s not out of the question to assume that many of us have old medications somewhere in the bathroom or medicine cabinet. We don’t take them anymore, they’re expired, or maybe they belonged to a relative who is no longer with us.
A great deal of these of these medications we [...]