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POPSDec 2: Green Tuesday Vs. Black Friday; CyberMonday. TODAY ONLY get a buck off on our Multicultural calendar (max $100 on order of 100). Enter promotion code "greentuesday" - http://diversitynet.org.
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POPSPERMAculture: Path to Sustainable gardens
Some of permaculture's key guidelines for designing a garden (or a lifestyle) include: * Honor the health of the system and of all components above their productivity; favor slow changes and low levels of work and input and output over the drive to maximize production, which pushes the system out of balance. * Maintain closed-loop cycles of all materials to keep the system in balance; what we might call waste is re-imagined as a surplus resource, to be used as an input into another process. * Designate zones of more intense and less intense energy use to maximize efficiency and minimize wasted labor and resources. * Build in redundancy -- each element has many functions, and each function is performed by many elements -- to ensure stability in the system. * Do not use stores of natural capital to sustain ongoing processes, but tap them for the extra energy needed when generating a structure or system or putting a process into action. * Use natural proces
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POPSU.S. waits for others to save us from oil dependence As long as this remains the case i will remain skeptical that the U.S. government truly wants to end our dependence on oil. That reality basically means that the needs of lobbyists (Big Oil) are considerably more important than the needs of the people. That depresses me a lot!
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POPSWhy Use Compact Fluorescent Bulbs? This is US information. But, it is applicable anywhere! An emerging barrier to use of CFLs is disposal. Proper disposal is important for sure. But disposal issues/confusion shouldn't deter us from charging ahead to replace incandescents! Even improper disposal is better than the alterative of using incandescent bulbs from the perspective of overall mercury pollution! Here's why! Coal power plants are the single largest source of mercury emissions into the environment. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (when coal power is used) the mercury released from powering an incandescent bulb for five years exceeds the sum of the mercury released by powering a comparably luminous CFL for the same period and the mercury contained in the lamp.
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POPSEnergy on ice Reference to this article was posted on the Toronto Peak Oil Yahoo! Group.
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