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Eco-friendly Green cars for the cheapskate

Sometimes I think it would be nice to buy a brand-new shiny car, but then I think about all the downsides. Car payments. Being at the mercy of what the manufacturers are willing to create. The off-gassing that we call “new car smell.” Credit checks. Learning how to negotiate with car dealers. Let me tell [...]

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Frugal beginners guide to going green for your car and home

Huddler’s tight-knit community of eco-minded consumers share their knowledge about sustainable products and services ranging from electric cars to organic toothpaste. Go green and save green: Beginner’s guide In this guide, you’ll find out how to spend less than $1,200 to save over $8,000 over the course of five years. Here are suggestions of free [...]

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Want A Better Way To Power Your Car? It’s A Breeze

Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is half right. We do need to harness this country’s wind resources for a homegrown source of electricity, as he has been urging this summer in expensive television ads. And we do need to reduce the $700 billion we may soon be paying annually for imported oil. But part [...]

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Greenwash Watch: Gwyn Morgan on GM Advertising

Fuel Cell powered Equinox at car show Until he retired, Gwyn Morgan was the most powerful oil man in Canada, sort of our own Boone Pickens without the evil swift boat stuff, although he has tussled with David Suzuki and fought against Kyoto. Now he writes, and writes off General Motors’ electric and fuel cell powered [...]

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Pedal-Powered Pub Delivers Beer on the Move

The Pedal-Powered Pub It’s safe to say that TreeHugger is an advocate of human-powered transport options – from kayaks to couch bikes to pedal-powered hovercraft, through human-powered four-wheel drive SUVs to pedal-driven …

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It Will Take More Than High Gas Prices To Change Our Habits

It is a TreeHugger mantra that $10 gas will change everything, and introduce a new era of green building, bike routes and trains everywhere. However according to Elisabeth Rosenthal in the New York Times, that’s what they have in Europe and it doesn’t appear to have changed much at all. Said one Roman driver: “It [...]

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Greenwash Watch: Gwyn Morgan on GM Advertising

Fuel Cell powered Equinox at car show Until he retired, Gwyn Morgan was the most powerful oil man in Canada, sort of our own Boone Pickens without the evil swift boat stuff, although he has tussled with David Suzuki Acai and fought against Kyoto. Now he writes, and writes off General Motors’ electric and fuel cell [...]

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