Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
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Go Green Living At Garden State GreenFest
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
I know that when people of New Jersey they think of Jersey Shore, the Sopranos, garbage dumps and urban plight. But folks should know that outside it’s urban areas (all states have their cities), the New Jersey is beautiful and diverse. In fact, New Jersey is known as the “Garden State” and if you look [...]
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Are Alternative Energy Sources Heating Us Up?
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
For years the experts have been telling us that alternative energy sources will be the solution to global warming. We’ve been told that clean energy alternatives to fossil fuels will reduce CO2 emissions. But could the clean energy sources from wind, the sun and nuclear fusion actually affect the climate? According to an article in [...]
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Taxpayers Illegally Claim Millions Of Electric Vehicle Tax Credit
Friday, February 4th, 2011
Major car companies like GM and Nissan are slowly rolling out rechargable electric cars. But that hasn’t stopped thousands of taxpayers from claiming illegal tax credits for electric vehicles. A United States Treasury Department inspector general says that almost 13,000 taxpayers erroneously claimed abut $33 million in tax credits for plug-in electric and alternative-fuel vehicles [...]
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Green Living Kitchen Energy Savers
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
Green Living is a lifestyle that attempts to reduce one’s use of the Earth’s natural resource and his/her own resources. Practitioners of sustainable living try to reduce their carbon footprint by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet. Anyone can start on the sustainable living path by heeding with these simple kitchen energy savings [...]
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Green Business Opportunities Abound For Entrepreneurs
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
The global economic downturn has created employment opportunities for savvy entrepreneurs in the clean technology industry. The government stimulus plan and changing public sentiment about our future has made clean energy the most popular area of the green energy industry. Government investment in renewable energy, predictions of an electric gridlock in the next few years, [...]
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Advantages of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs)
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) combine the internal combustion engine of a conventional vehicle with the high-voltage battery and electric motor of an electric vehicle. Hybrid electric are more environmentally friendly, more energy efficient and have twice the fuel economy of conventional vehicles. HEVs are flexible and have a wide range of personal and commercial applications. [...]
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China’s Hybrid Cars Market Expected To Explode
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Both carmakers and component suppliers in the Chinese automotive industry are keeping a close watch on the hybrid electric cars segment, as they realize the market is likely to grow at full throttle in 2011. Although only six hybrid models were available in the market at the end of 2008, the entry of native and [...]
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Promising Alternative Fuels
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Hydrogen and Natural Gas are promising alternative fuel sources that will help reduce the dependence on fossil fuels. These alternative fuel source will help reduce carbon emissions and reverse global warming. The best source of using hydrogen and natural gas is in powering automobiles, trucks and buses. These alternative fuels are significantly more eco-friendly than [...]
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Moving Toward A Plug-In Future
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Increasing America’s use of plug-in electric and plug in hybrid cars would dramatically reduce emissions that cause global warming and air pollution and would curb our dependence on oil, according to a new white paper released today by Environment Texas. But how do we get moving toward a Plug-In future? Tax Credit Plug-In Incentives Currently [...]
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Does Geothermal Drilling Cause Earthquakes?
Monday, January 18th, 2010
The United States Energy Department, concerned about earthquake risk, will impose new safeguards on geothermal energy projects that drill deep into the Earth’s crust, according to an article published by the New York Times on January 15, 2010. The new policy is being instituted after a project in California that used the new technology was [...]