Eric Leech
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A Little Toilet Humor: Powerloo, The Flushable, Outside Dog Toilet
Sometimes finding humor in life is as easy as checking into some of the news being featured around the nation. Today's humorous news bit comes from a story published yesterday in the Chicago Tribune titled, "What to do with doggy
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Hybrid-Powered Remote Control Lawnmower
You know, I sure hate to mow the
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Save a Tree... Use an Unbreakable Golf Tee
Photo via: Launcher Tee What do you get when you cross an aerospace engineer with the game of golf?Have you ever thought about the number of tees you go through over a typical season of golf? Golf Magazine reports that the average golfer uses somewhere
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Need a Little Help Reaching Your Environmental Goals?
We all need to have goals. Goals help guide us and give us wings to reach new heights. Becoming green is not a natural process for everybody, and in fact, many of us could use a little help here and there. Maybe we are trying to
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The "Sliding House" Features an Exterior Skin for All Seasons
dRMM Architecture, situated in London, England, has built a number of fascinating home designs over their existence, but one of the most functionally eco-interesting would have to be their Sliding House. At first glance it looks like your typical
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GM's New Strategy: "Made in China"
"Using taxpayer money to subsidize U.S. job losses," is how the United Auto Workers (UAW) describes GM's move to tighten their belts, slash production costs, and make the most of their $15.4 borrowed billion by outsourcing to
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The 2009 Anti-Green Awards: The Worst Car, House, Building, Celebrity, Company, Country, and U.S. City...
The green movement has always had its share of both winners and losers. Today, we look at a few of the top losers for 2009. Hopefully with such a shameful honor to be bestowed upon them, they will clean-up their act for next year's
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What Can Trigger An Asthma Attack May Surprise You
What Causes Asthma? According to Dr. Todd Mahr, a Gundersen Lutheran pediatric allergist and asthma specialist, it is many things. It is allergens (pollen, mold, pets, rodents, food, bugs), pollution (cigarette smoke, smog,
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Prejudism and the Green Entrepreneur
As the mortgage and banking industry collapsed last year, a painful reminder that prejudice banking still exists echoed over thousands of foreclosed homes whose minority owners had taken out a second mortgage (with
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This Post Burned Two Trees, Endangered Three Species, and Created One Dime-Sized Hole in the Atmosphere
Okay, so this heading is far fetched by quite a stretch of imagination, but it poses a very interesting question for us green bloggers and green websites in general. If information is power and the spreading
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Russian Nuclear Power Station Takes an Axe to Santa's Workshop
As the Photo depicts, it is not Exxon/Mobil who will be bulldozing Santa's workshop this year, but rather the Russian state nuclear corporation, Rosatom. It will be a 70-megawatt prototype floating nuclear power station, consisting
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New Study Says, You're Dead Meat if You Eat Red Meat
One million men and half a million women die each year from the excessive consumption of red meat (beef, venison) and processed meats (sausage, bologna). So what, you say, I've heard this same old song and dance for some 20
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7 Out of 10 College Bound Students, Prefer Green Universities
A Recent Princeton Review survey shows that most college applicants today are becoming increasingly interested in how green their prospective universities are. Of these statistics, 68 percent of the students surveyed admitted that
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Soap, Sanitizer, and Spray Disinfectant Economies Boom, Thanks to Swine Flu
With every traumatic event in life, there is always a team of clever marketers waiting to capitalize on peoples fear. It is the very basis of smart marketing. It is one thing to tell people to use their moisturizer or they will get
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20 Gut-Wrenching Statistics About the Destruction of the Planet and those Living Upon It
Every so often it is good to remind ourselves why we are working so hard to protect the environment and all its creatures. While many of these statistics are depressing, the good news is that we are currently working towards a
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Plastic Bags??? Let's Do Away with Plastic Packaged Food Too!
Plastic bags are fast becoming a scapegoat for the packaged food industry. In fact, if I didn't know better I would think the suppliers of these packaged goods were fueling the fire to the negative attention towards plastic
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If Being Thin is Green, Should the Government Have a Say Over Our Weight?
Some people will say this is preposterous, but let's think about it for a minute. If it is reasonable for the government to control the vehicles we drive, control the percentage of taxes we pay, whose to say they shouldn't also
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Denver Green Apple Festival Snowed Out, But Thank You Concert Rocked! (video)
This year for the Denver Green Apple Festival, volunteers were set to xeriscape, plant gardens, restore the woodlands of Boulder County Parks, protect trees from beavers at the South Suburban Parks, clean trash along Bluff Lake,
