FACTS, MORE FACTS AND RENEWABLE FACTS
1.) Hawaii is home to the largest wind turbine in the world — it stands 20 stories high, and its blades expand the length of a football field.
2.) By using renewable energy sources to provide each person’s daily energy needs we could decease CO2 emissions by 20,000 pounds less of carbon dioxide each year, 50 [...]
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PRESIDENTIAL GREEN TIDBITS
Here’s an assortment of some green and quasi-green presidential moments:
William McKinley—twenty-fifth president, 1897-1901
• At the turn of the century, ladies’ hats were often decorated with plumes from over-hunted birds. McKinley, not liking this, sponsored the Lacey Act of 1900, which banned the practice of shipping illegally-killed birds from one state to another.
Theodore Roosevelt—twenty-sixth president, 1901-1909
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SAVING RESOURCES AND MONEY
The current economy clearly demonstrates the need for each of us to become better at managing our spending and savings habits. In a word – we could benefit from being more disciplined.
We also should be more disciplined in the way we use our precious natural resources,
such as water and energy. Below are several simple and [...]
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