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December 2008

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People

Maverick millionaire

Exclusive interview with founder of Lush cosmetics who funds protest groups others would not touch

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Energy

Geothermal land grab

A new land grab is taking place – in the race for geothermal power sources

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Energy

Steven Chu Interviews

In his first interview, energy secretary-designate, Steven Chu, says “we have to immediately start decreasing the amount of energy we use”

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Green Gifts? Try Freecycle

Exclusive interview with Deron Beal, founder of Freecycle, plus listing of some reccomended Green Gifts

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Community

Simple Solar Homesteading Book Review

Before our big move off the grid, I did a lot of research to learn everything I could about living off-grid. I used the internet as my main source of information. I quickly found a great source of info at LaMar Alexander’s website. In following with my Off-Grid – On The Cheap message, this is a very practical, hands on approach to how to get off the grid without having to spend lots of money.

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UK brown-outs looming

The head of Britain’s National Grid has admitted the company cannot guarantee an uninterrupted energy supply, and blamed the government for this failure. But he has not explained why private power companies or The National Grid are not investing more, especially since its profits were up to GBP 1 billion.

When huge new wind farms are built, it can sometimes take years to connect them to the grid, even if massive pylons are only a few yards away.

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Make $$$ from solar

Find out how to make $6,000-7,000 EACH YEAR, from your solar panels. Whether recently installed or long-standing, you still qualify for the payments

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Spirit

Why “survival panic” is good

For many, their self image depended on consumption. now they no longer have money, they descend into wierdness. Long term the result of less consumption is a net benefit

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Community

Off-Grid – On The Cheap

It seems that the “green” (or brown) movement is growing faster and faster. It used to be the realm of unwashed hippies, tree huggers and other so called “degenerates” who lived off the grid, in the wild, on the fringes of society.

Lately, I keep reading about how more mainstream people are jumping in, purchasing solar panels, adding passive solar rooms, collecting rain water. I read about people who build $300,000+ green homes, that price doesn’t include the price of the land it sits upon! It’s all fine and dandy for those who have lots of readily available cash sitting around, or worse, they get loans to bankroll their ubergreen homes.

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People

Eco Innocence

We are living through a massive extinction of species on Earth The true innocents are the planet’s endangered species.

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