Va. regs say 10 percent power reduction possible

The State Corporation Commission says Virginia's goal reducing electricity consumption by 10 percent by lowering demand and improving efficiency is realistic.

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Dramatic drop in LA water, power consumption

The nation's second-largest city cut water use by an overall 17 percent in July compared to a year earlier, officials said Wednesday.

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TV remains top source of news even as online grows

Fewer Americans are reading newspapers and are instead getting their news online, but television remains the leading source of news in the country, according to a survey released Sunday.

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Slashing your smoking may not help your health

Smokers who believe they can avoid fatal disease by slashing the number of cigarettes they smoke each day are sorely mistaken, according to a new study which suggests the only safe way to escape the risk is to quit.

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Weight Gain Means Lower Gas Mileage

Want to spend less at the pump? Lose some weight. That's the implication of a new study that says Americans are burning nearly 1 billion more gallons of gasoline each year than they did in 1960 because of their expanding waistlines. Simply put, more weight in the car means lower gas mileage.

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They've targeted gas-guzzling clunkers. They've blacklisted power-wasting light bulbs. Now the efficiency police are going after our big-screen TVs as a way to tame our household energy demons.

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the 16,200 churches and other buildings owned by the Church of England emit about as much carbon dioxide as the entire country of Gambia Of course, if they don't go to church they probably play badminton in stead ;-)

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Germans enjoy eating sausages and other meat dishes so much that the average person munches their way through more than 2,000 animals in their lifetime.

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Fiscal Stimulus: Tax Cuts-Taxes versus Consumption

Besides government spending injection through increased government purchases - increased demand required ( necessary ) to raise output and employment levels could be brought about by increases in consumption.

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WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fir …

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Are Water Softener Companies Going to Help The Environment with New Technologies in California?

If you have been following the news in California, you have probably seen the recent move by cities and municipalities to ban old-fashioned salt-based water softeners.

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Relying on the centuries-old principle that white objects absorb less heat than dark ones, homeowners like the Waldreps are in the vanguard of a movement embracing "cool roofs" as one of the most affordable weapons against climate change.

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With difficult credit markets and an unclear future, talk of dealmaking has been at a minimum this year. Yet there has never been a more important time for media conglomerates and their financiers to act and adapt to the Internet age.

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The moderate consumption of alcohol can prevent the development of gallstones, British researchers claim.

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When the dollar, US treasury bills, and stock prices slumped yesterday because of growing concerns about the U.S.

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Do cars actually make us less civilized? By facilitating dual residency of work and home via long drives to and from cities and suburbia, personal motorized transport separates us from each other while contributing to waste and pollution.

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"The Story of Stuff"-----This Should Be Seen in Case You Haven't

I don't know what to say. This is the best treatment of problems of linear thought in a global-finite system I have ever seen. The young woman is a little too perky for me but at least she doesn't talk down to her audience.

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Ask most energy analysts how to cut US petroleum usage, and they'll point to Europe, where gasoline costs more than double the price in the States. For decades, European countries have taxed gasoline heavily, and the laws of economics work: Consumption per capita is much lower.

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It starts with a stark realization. For millennia, there was one obvious and necessary way to improve human life: raise material living standards. If you are hungry, you will be made a lot happier by food. If you are thirsty, you will be made a lot happier by water.

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Solar power beamed down from space will generate electricity for California homes as soon as 2016, under a new plan by a utility company to ramp up renewable energy technology far beyond solar panels on roofs. More Articles

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What: Facebook photograph shows part-time teaching aide at Ohio high school with three cheerleaders holding Smirnoff bottles. When: The Court of Appeals of Ohio, 12th District, rules on Feb. 9. Outcome: Conviction for allowing minors to possess alcohol upheld.

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When they ask at the family gathering why I am late and I say I was garnering a stranger's discards, they laugh. When they realize I am serious, they flinch, their faces masks of pity, fear, disgust.

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Is this what Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he substituted "the pursuit of happiness" for the phrase contained in the earlier Continental Congress draft, "life, liberty, and property?"

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Giving teenage boys a fish dinner at least once a week boosts their intelligence, research out today suggests. More Articles

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It's well-known that most electronic devices in our homes are sucking up energy even while they are turned off. But for all the information out there, many questions remain. I got hundreds of reader questions after writing the post What's wasting energy in your home right now.

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,For fifteen years, since I co-founded United for a Fair Economy, I've been tracking the growing inequalities of income and wealth in the United States.

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Google is trying to impact electrical energy consumption by developing a Web service that will let users track electricity usage in a very detailed way. More Articles

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Tax Cuts Can't Save This Economy

Ask almost any die-hard Republican and they'll tell you the same thing, The problem with Democrats, they'll say, is that they think they know better how to spend your money than you do. Sometimes, that can be a fair criticism. Sometimes, Democrats do think that.

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What kind of world are we leaving our children?

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