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Lots of employees at large and small companies have told us they don’t print on both sides of the paper, because its too complicated and the settings often don’t work. While it is true that a series of valuable yet highly complex technical options do…

Via GoodCleanTech, 05/05/2010 by Troy Dreier Finally, a solution to all those pens clogging up the landfills. Newell Rubbermaid has announced the Paper Mate Biodegradable, the first widely available line of pens and mechanical pencils made with a majority of biodegradable components. They'll break down…

Every year, the greenhouse gases that each and every individual in Germany causes correspond to the impact that 10 to 12 tonnes of CO2 have on the environment. What each individual eats amounts to some 2 tonnes of this, not taking into account thetransport chain,…

A clearly much too cost-conscious building renovation was completed in Bremen’s largest shopping street in 2008: the heat in the fancy building in Obernstraße (53°04’39.68“N) was literally being thrown out of the window.   During the renovation of the five-floor building, the old single glazed…

Advertising brochures, catalogues, online promotions, spots and similar etc. seduce us into buying electronic appliances all the time that later prove to be needless energy guzzlers. So who is responsible for this: the customer or the marketing departments at the companies selling the products?

All of us know that using rechargeable batteries is much cheaper in the long run and much better for the environment. But we also know the daily problem:

By DIANE JOYCE – The Dominion Post,  27-04-2010 Hastings District Council has been illegally dumping stormwater into streams and drains for 10 years. This is despite Hawke's Bay Regional Council's demands that it reapply for expired resource consents. Meanwhile, illegal dumping of toxic waste flushed…

From Mercola, extracted from NEXUS Magazine, Volume 2, #25 (April-May ’95). Originally printed from the April 1994 edition of Acres, USA. Back in May of 1989, after Tom Valentine first moved to St Paul, Minnesota, he heard on the car radio a short announcement that…

Mercola, by Anthony Wayne and Lawrence Newell Is it possible that millions of people are ignorantly sacrificing their health in exchange for the convenience of microwave ovens? Why did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? Who invented microwave ovens, and…

PCC Sound Consumer, by Trudy Bialic, editor, January 2006 (January 2006) — For convenience, few kitchen tools can compare to the microwave oven. An estimated 90 percent of American households have one and most of us have used a microwave to reheat leftovers. From time…