Cheap Sunglasses Cause Cancer

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Every summer it seems, I find myself unable to root out the sunglasses I purchased for an arm and a leg the year prior; a ritual that has over time, moved my style from $120 Ray-Bans to $10 gas station glasses. Imagine my surprise when I found out that this was probably going to kill me, and that nobody was doing anything about it.

Stunning Shredded Paper Furniture: Recycling Takes A Leap

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I’m a bit of an artsy sort: the furniture in my apartment, the art on the walls, heck, the apartment itself, all have a feel that I wanted to intentionally surround myself with, and that feel is “creative.” It’s part of the reason why I enjoy telecommuting so much, and why I am so effing psyched to find out you can make furniture out of shredded paper.

Why Americans Are Driving 1M Mile Less a Day

Opinion piece: by Ben Ray

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I’ve said it before, I’ve proved it, and I’ll say it again: the way to break an addiction to fossil fuel is to make it prohibitively expensive. Until that happens, very few people have the impetus to change their lifestyles significantly and politicians therefore, will have very little incentive to sponsor progressive legislation.

Chrysler Offers 2.99 Gas. Is This a Good Idea?

Don’t you worry about a thing, darlin’. That gas is capped at 2.99. Image from MShades

I think I’ve been more than a little vocal about the gas price crisis in America, but have, aside from making fun of our Presidential candidates, left out all of the proposed solutions when discussing it. Mostly that’s just my sense of humor, because, well, there’s not much we can do other than buck up and increase fuel efficiency. However, there might be another solution - Chrysler is offering us a hysterical little life raft: don’t worry about it, the gas is on us!

7 Unconventional and Creative Ways To Recycle

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Recycling is often such a boring and easy task that it’s hard to get people to change their ways, in order to make them do it. If the blue or green trash bin is just like the black one, only I can’t put everything I want in it, it’s easier to use the black one, right? Well, what if you make recycling fun? I know, it sounds like a pitch you’d make to a grade-schooler. But here are seven ways to make recycling a visible impact instead of an additional hassle when you’re going to the trash bin.

What Is The Real Cost Of Bottled Water?

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As John McCain and Hillary Clinton tell Americans tales of a gas tax holiday to relieve us of a whole 20 cents per gallon this summer (we’re paying more than four dollars anyway) it’s probably worth discussing one of the other reasons that gas is so darn expensive…

America’s Most Pedestrianized Cities

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There’s no denying it – by 2025, it is estimated that there will be over a billion cars on this big blue marble we all love so dearly.

Alaskan Capital Cuts Power Consumption By 40%

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There’s a program in the U.S. called Energy Star– it certifies homes and appliances for cutting their energy consumption anywhere from 15 to 40%. I don’t think they expected it, but we may have found the first entire city that qualifies: Juneau, Alaska, cut power consumption by 30-40% this month.

Greenwashing To The Max? The Eco-Friendly Private Jet

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It’s a cliché… almost. A celebrity criticizes the way that the rest of us impact the environment by living in 500 square foot apartments and driving a car that we wish somebody would steal, and then flies off to some exotic location in a private jet that dumps more carbon into the atmosphere in a day that I can in a year.

Fill Your Car For $5

I imagine that our readers in the UK are giggling furiously at the American panic over gas prices this year as we finally begin to think about paying what those of you in the old world have been for years.

It just looks like a place with cheap fuel, doesn’t it? Image from WaynePhotoGuy

Well, then let me drop a number that will make the Americans euphoric, and probably plunge the rest of you into shock: you can fill up your entire tank for five dollars in Utah.

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