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Postage rates rising, but not for most letters
WASHINGTON (AP) — Postage rates are going up starting Sunday, but the changes mostly affect businesses. Mailing that recipe to Aunt Mary or birthday card to Uncle Joe won’t cost any extra.Among the changes, it will cost advertisers more to flood your mailbox with sales offers and publishers will face higher charges to send you … Continue reading
GoodGuide rates most virtuous cell phones
Whether they consider it bling or just a tool, people typically buy phones based on features and carrier plans. But if you’re looking to add benign environmental and societal impact to your feature wish list, GoodGuide has got the data. GoodGuide launched on Thursday cell phone ratings that rank individual models and manufacturers on health, … Continue reading
Soil microbes define dangerous rates of climate change
ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2010) — The rate of global warming could lead to a rapid release of carbon from peatlands that would further accelerate global warming.Two recent studies published by the Mathematics Research Institute at the University of Exeter highlight the risk that this ‘compost bomb’ instability could pose, and calculate the conditions under which … Continue reading
Nextraction Announces Initial Flow Rates for Noble #6-24 Well in North Pinedale Project
Holmdel green team to focus on planet, prosperity BY JACQUELINE HLAVENKA Staff Writer HOLMDEL — Cutting energy costs and exploring solar power are potential initiatives for the township’s new “Green Team” approved by the governing body on July 22. read more Read more on Independent Merkley wants more from energy bill U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, … Continue reading
What will rising electricity rates mean to clean energy?
A political consultant once told me that Americans only vote for the environmental candidate if the economy is thriving. The nation’s financial house needs to be in order before voters will tend the garden. Green energy advocates appear to have circumvented this tendency in recent years by promoting green jobs. The political formula is no … Continue reading
Topography of mountains could complicate rates of global warming
ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2010) A new study concludes that the future effects of global warming could be significantly changed over very small distances by local air movements in complex or mountainous terrain — perhaps doubling or even tripling the temperature increases in some situations. See Also:Earth & ClimateEnvironmental IssuesGlobal WarmingClimateGeographyEnvironmental ScienceEcologyReferenceConsensus of scientists regarding … Continue reading
Household recycling rates ‘improving’
Latest news 14 May 2010 More needs to be done to encourage household recycling, it has been claimed. Recent figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have revealed that household waste levels fell by 1.7 per cent in the year to September 2009. An improvement in the household recycling rate was … Continue reading