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Archive for December, 2008

Stuff Environmentalists Like

1st December 2008

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From the people who brought you ‘Stuff White People Like’.

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Windspire vertical turbine on sale now, aiming to capture the consumer wind power market

1st December 2008

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Mariah Power’s Windspire is a 9 meter tall vertical turbine intended for residential or commercial installation, capable of providing about a quarter of the power an “average” household needs (2000 kWh annually). It’s “bird-friendly” thanks to a relatively slow maximum blade speed (2.5 times that of the wind) and even includes WiFi so you can watch your carbon footprint shrink wirelessly.

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ANOTHER REASON NOT TO TAILGATE

1st December 2008

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Trailing too closely behind trucks taking broiler chickens from factory farms to the slaughterhouse could expose motorists to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, say researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Oh, No, Mr Bill….

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