Posts by — jasminejaconde

price rise

USA Today last month carried a full list of every US State with details of whether it offered tax rebates or grants for installing renewable energy. The chart on the USA Today web site
also offered details of which States mandate net metering allowing customers to sell power back to the grid.

Only New York, California, Oregon, Massachusetts and Maryland are running all three incentives, rebates and net metering.. Fourteen states are offering just one of the three, and Idaho is offering none no benefits, no incentives and no metering. (more…)

More off-grid hideaways, please

We are shortly launching our travel web site, specialising in eco-destinations, and ethical ways of getting there.

We want to hear from YOU, dear readers, with any off-grid havens you can recommend to the rest of the Web.

Today, Suenos Tulum on Tulum Beach Mexico, 90 miles south of Cancun at the end of a stretch of shoreline on the Caribbean Sea known as the Maya Riviera. (more…)

Land of the freebie

Even if you never considered a career in auto transport, a car driveaway is a cheap way to get around and to save money. You contact a vehicle or car transport company in the place you are travelling to, or the place you are travelling from.

I have done ‘driveaways’ across America twice, totalling over 10,000 miles. The main company is Auto Driveaway, 310 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois (www.autodriveaway.com). All you need to do is phone their nearest office (from a choice of 60) to find out where they have cars going to. It is without doubt the cheapest way to get around America, as it doesn’t cost anything but the gas rate. There are other Driveaway Agencies in the yellow pages. (more…)