I think this shows that some medical studies are going a little too far, but if you want to participate, there is a study taking place up in Seattle that will pay you $4,000 to be infected with malaria. Yikes. Personally, no amount of money is worth jeopardizing my health, even if they claim it [...]
With winter bearing down upon us (well, for those of you in cold weather climates), remember to put up the screens in your windows and put down the storm windows. Stopping heat from leaving and keeping the cold outside where it belongs goes a long way to both saving you money and reducing our use [...]
Sure, there are a lot of people out there who could care less about the “green” movement. They either think everything is fine, or science will bail us out at the last minute, or they have “well, if no one else is doing anything, why should I?” syndrome. Unfortunately, you might not be able to [...]
Do you leave your cellphone or iPod charger plugged in when you are not actually charging your phone? If so, you are paying for …nothing! Those chargers still draw power, sometimes 75% of what you use to charge the phone, even with nothing plugged in. So once your phone or iPod is charged up and [...]
If so, you might want to check out some of these great ones: Environmental Defense Environment Northeast 20/20 Vision Santa Monica Baykeeper Environmental Working Group Red Feather Center for a New American Dream The Nature Conservancy David Suzuki Foundation Earth Justice NRDC
If you have wanted to switch the lights in your house over to CFL bulbs but have been put off by cost of buying them, you might want to check your local IKEA. We were there yesterday and saw that they are selling a three pack of 11 watt bulbs for only $3.99. 11 watt [...]
Over at Co-op America, they have a great article up about socially responsible investing that includes seven big ways that your money can help fight climate change. Since they can probably do a better job of explaining all of it to you, I will let them….but not before I put up the quick list, and [...]
