Ways 2 Go GREEN!

Smart Water not so Smart

Buddins — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:34:36 GMT

I was reading some of the materials we have circulating around my office(I work for a marketing company doing some work for Aquafina) and I noticed this startling fact:

Smart Water uses as much as 48% extra plastic in the manufacture of their water bottles as compared to other bottled water companies.

Doesn't this seem a little extraneous to you guys? It shocked me, especially as I am a fan of Glaceau's drink lines and they always seemed like such an enlightened brand. More plastic when it's not needed is so wasteful.

solar power

sunpower — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:33:21 GMT

Solar power is the energy of now and in the futher. The cost and efficiency will continue to improve

How to Calculate The Amount of Solar Panels You Need

RealAmerican — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:11:42 GMT

Here is a simple but practical way of determining the number of solar panels that you will need for your business or home.

List down all your appliance or equipment that requires power.
Jot down their respective wattage
Note the number of hours that of the equipment or appliances are used.
Derive the total for each by multiplying the wattage with the total hours used.
Add the total for each of the appliances or equipment to get the grand total.
Determine the peak sun hours that you get on a daily basis using the chart on peak sun hours.
Divide the grand total you get under item #5 with the peak solar hours.
The figure that you get is a ROUGH gauge of the wattage of the solar panels that you will need.

Michael Jackson died! Who's Ed Green?

RealAmerican — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:43:23 GMT

Michael Jackson dies and its 24/7 news coverage.

A real American hero dies and not a mention of it in the news. The media seems to have no honor and God is watching...........

Ed Freeman

You're a 19-year-old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter and you look up to see an unarmed Huey, but it doesn't seem real because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.

Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down in to the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.

He's coming anyway.

And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.

Then he flies you up and out, through the gunfire to the doc tors and nurses.

And he kept coming back, 13 more times, and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.

Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at the age of 80, in Boise , ID. May God rest his soul.

Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman!
Since the media didn't give him the coverage he deserves, send this to every red-blooded American you know.

THANKS AGAIN, ED, FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY.

RIP

McDonalds going Green

Laura000 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:24:23 GMT

Hey guys !
Have you heard that McDonalds going Green with EV charging stations. the countrys largest fast-food restaurant is hoping to change all that with the opening of their first green restaurant in North Carolina.

See this site
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/07/green-mcdonalds-installs-electric-vehicle-charging-stations/

Suggestions

killerdoug — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:19:44 GMT

ways to make this forum a better place?

Eco-awareness and politics

killerdoug — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:18:11 GMT

what do you think the government should/shouldn't do?

Environment thread

killerdoug — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:17:06 GMT

Write what do you feel about the environment here

Green electricity?

Sandra09 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:13:14 GMT

Can anyone tell me what is green electricity?

What is a carbon footprint?

shine_rahne — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:06:30 GMT

Ive heard in many places... waht exactly is it.

Off the grid

Andyfr — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:01:42 GMT

can a house in a big city be totally converted to off-the-grid?

electricity while camping

Andyfr — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:57:02 GMT

hi friends, does anybody know how i can get free electricity using solar or any other eco friendly power source out in the woods while camping?
dont think of me as a lazy bum, i wanna do this just coz it can be done! lol

light tubes

StevieWoz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:45:44 GMT

Does anyone also have any info on sky light tubes? i cant seen to find info anywhere...

Trash Bags

StevieWoz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:41:18 GMT

Does anyone know how to make biodegradable trash bags?

Calendar

tadpole_jim — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:35:08 GMT

Can we set up a calendar pls ? For member's birthdays, any special day such as green day ?