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M. Markella asked: You have a lot of options if you want to use alternative bio-fuels to run a diesel engine. You can use only vegetable oils by making some modifications to your diesel engine, or you can use a mix of vegetable oils and other original diesel fuels like petroleum or kerosene. But [...]

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Consumer Reports recently reported that some breakfast cereals marketed to U.S. children are more than half sugar by weight. A serving of 11 popular cereals, including Kellogg’s Honey Smacks, carries as much sugar as a glazed doughnut. And some brands have more sugar and sodium when formulated for the U.S. market than the same brands [...]

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Open house and tour of local green buildings … … “This year’s Green Building Open House features 27 homes in Tompkins, Tioga and Schuyler Counties. Homeowners and/or green building professionals will be on site to answer questions and describe their green building features … ” … Via Cornell University: 2008 Green Buildings
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Given the hue and cry that has been unleashed in America with regard to the bailout, there is finally good news for the renewable energy industry . The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 , passed by the House of Representatives with a vote of 263 to 171, and signed into law by President [...]

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Let’s say you’re a politician, and you have a policy you want to push to the public. How do you get the backing? You turn to semantics. Do you call it a bail-out or a rescue plan? Invasion of privacy or the Patriot Act? A War on Terror or an invasion of a country [...]

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