EcoInsomniac

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Entries Tagged as 'Going Green'

Some of my EcoInsomniac plans and ideas for this year.

May 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Going Green, Insomniac, Inspiration, Life Changing

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!That’s a great question and I’ve been asked what direction is EcoInsomniac.com going many times via Email and IM (both methods of contact can be found on the contact page).  Honestly, EcoInsomniac is being guided by the readers and [...]

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Dusted off my ol’ bike now my legs feel like jello

May 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Environment, Going Green, Transportation

With gas prices skyrocketing with no relief in sight more and more people are fixing up their bikes and hitting the road with pedal power.  I’m one of them.  I didn’t dust off my bike because of gas prices I hardly drive anywhere anyway, but it’s time to get back in shape and it’s a [...]

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Helotes commits to 100% windtricity from CPS Energy

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Alternate Energy, Going Green, Wind power

Helotes, Texas is a small town just outside of San Antonio and has a population of about 5,000 people. The city government has done a lot to keep big business out of town and allow small business owners the ability to operate with out the threat of companies like Wal-mart. The city of [...]

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Are you making any changes because of gas prices?

May 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Environment, Going Green, Transportation

I know I’ve made quite a few changes. I’m always weary about where we are going and plan out multiple visits on a single trip. We opt to take the Prius or the new Civic over my girlfriends Grand Am with a V-6. We tend to stay in a lot more we’ve [...]

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Konarka uses inkjets to print solar film

May 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Alternate Energy, Environment, Going Green, Solar power

In 2005, Popular Mechanics gave Konarka Technologies an award for being one of the years top innovators. Konarka Technologies was honored by PM for its flexible solar film called Power Plastic. At that time they were manufacturing Power Plastic through proprietary means of printing. In March 2008 though they announced that they [...]

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