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Utah Adopts 4-Day, 10hr/Day, Work Week
With gas prices around $4/gallon and budgets everywhere getting crunched with higher costs of… everything, states are struggling to figure out how to lower costs and try and accomodate greener practices. After a year-long study, Utah has announced this week that it will be moving to a 4-day (Monday through Thursday), 10hr/day work week. The announcement will [...]
Continue reading...Sweden Processing Sewage Into (Methane) Biogas
Friday, May 30, 2008
Sweden is currently leading the charge in processing sewage, using bacteria, into methane gas that is captured from sewage processing facilities and delivered into the natural-gas grid to filling stations that biogas-enabled cars can use to fill. While other European countries are also on the biogas bandwagon, there are huge commercial backers to the ethanol [...]
Continue reading...Progressive Insurance is… Progressive
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Just got this in my inbox today from Progressive Insurance: “Go Paperless and Save the World!” Why is that interesting? My bank has been trying to get me to go paperless so they can save money for years. Same for my goddamn utility companies. They never offer me ANY INCENTIVE (are you guys reading this?) to [...]
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
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