Today we have a guest piece from RecycleBank. I usually don’t like to post guest pieces from companies vs. bloggers, but I actually like the RecycleBank concept, so today we’ll see what they have to say. BUT first a little info about the company. RecycleBank offers families points for recycling.

Basically it works like this…

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Recycling…as American as Apple Pie

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Some people have realized that our interference with the planet’s ecosystems is in most cases disastrous and have come with several ideas to diminish our influence on the environment. Industrial designer Chris Allen has come up with an idea to use plastic bottles that we usually throw away to help generate energy from wind.

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In the previous post we looked at some problems with automobile dependence. However, you don’t have to be a slave to your car. You can learn to live on less automobile time with very few major changes, although, if you’d like to make major changes and minimize your car dependence even more, that’s cool too.

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Minimize your automobile dependence

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If you’re 110% dependent on your car there are some major eco-issues you’re contributing to. Currently the U.S. has about 4 million miles of paved roads alone, not counting parking spaces. Even if you ignore the fact that all these roads and parking lots are taking away our green spaces there are other negative eco-issues [...]

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Problems with automobile dependence

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A Korean team led by Nam-Gyu Park has recently made a breakthrough discovery in solar cell development. This discovery will not only increase the efficiency of thin-film panchromatic solar cells but as well the use of clean and reusable energy on the entire globe.

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