TREEconomist

As gasoline prices have hit an ugly milestone average of $4 per gallon in the US, consumers are really starting to feel the pinch, especially in rural areas such as Mississippi where some are spending as much as 13% of their income on fuel. Some employers there have switched to 4 day work weeks to [...]

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I was browsing one of my regular news sites, NPR.org and saw an ad for Fiji Water’s fijigreen.com. Huh? Ok, here we go again, more corporate green washing…
Bottled water is one of the cleverest and most successful beverage marketing schemes ever conceived. Something that flows clean and and nearly free from the tap, (in [...]

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The World Future Energy Summit is taking place this week in Abu Dhabi thanks to some dinosaur oil giant sponsorship. However, one energy company speaking there has caught my attention. Airtricity, an Irish wind energy firm, is presenting a case study about the viability of wind power.
Their economic research on the value of wind shows [...]

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