Posts Tagged ‘environment’

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Steps to making your garden more bird friendly

Birds are a wonderfull sight, pleasant to listen too, and incredibly important to the environment.  Unfortunately, they are also very susceptible to environmental changes, loss of habitat and other issues that threaten their survival.
The Daily Green has a great article about simple steps we can all take to make our yards more bird friendly, including [...]

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The Top Green-Tech Breakthroughs of 2008

WIRED is a great blog, and they have a list of top ten clean breakthroughs for 2008. It’s an excellent list. I think they forgot one very, very important one – Gas going to $4/gallon. Of course, it also went back down, but for that period, everyone was interested in clean tech, [...]

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Tax breaks for Bike commuters. But why pay the company, not the cyclist?

Good – Tax breaks for people who bike to work.
Silly/Moronic – The tax break goes to the company. The company decides if and how to pass it on.
I suppose the idea is that with the tax break, companies will be incentivized to provide better facilities or other benefits to bike commuters, but there is no [...]