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I agree with the "Anonymous" comment above that the future of transportation will be a mix (and perhaps must be a mix) of car sharing, public transportation and private car ownership. I think a key would be to increase the ease of the first two options for uses, and improve the efficiency of privately owned cars. I'm an Environmental Studies student working on developing an EcoCAR for an international competition... our car is nearly built and will have zero carbon emissions. If you want to check it out, we have a website: www.uwaft.com and the competition blog is www.greengarageblog.org.

I think Mill Street Organic lager also does not use paper labels.

I hold a clothing swap once a year with all my gal pals. We have light appetizers and beverages and have some fun with games such as door crasher prizes and the best...the clothing mascot; the person chosen has to parade with every piece they picked out. The rest of the clothing goes to homeless shelter where the women there can make good use of clothes who are in need. I usually suggest to ones who have higher end pricey items to try consignment shops first, even an online one like, shopmyclothes.com can help bring in a few dollars. It's now become such an event that my gals circle of friends are calling me and asking to be on a list for next years. If you hold once a year on a regular date (winter is best as it tends to be long and dreary), then it becomes a once a year tradition...not to mention you get clothes from others and you save money too.

Oxo-biodegradable plastics are designed to be recycled first and foremost. The additive to the plastic (a metal salt) provides insurance that, if the product (let's say a plastic bag) is accidentally or deliberately put into the environment as litter, it will degrade. The length of time this takes is determined partly by the 'delay' programmed into the additive and partly by the environmental conditions in which the product finds itself (primarily exposure to heat and light). The advantage of oxo-biodegradable products over compostable or hydro-biodegradable plastics is that they do not produce methane (23 times worse for global warming than CO2) during degradation. Oxo-biodegradable products provide the best alternative to traditional plastics and have many other advantages over alternatives such as paper products, reusable grocery bags etc. see biodeg.com for more details - Peter McGuigan (www.emeraldaisleimports.com)

A quick follow up.... Wow, I quess we just haven't given the effort we need to give toward contacting people on the internet about helping us with this project. It breaks my heart to think about jeans going to the dump when so many children, and people in general, need them. It saddens me to think of them being tossed into our landfills. Yes, I am not too good to ask.....Please help. Thanks, Terry HUGroup@live.com

hi i came across this feed while looking for info. I live smack dap in the middle of dairy farming country, i have at least 5 large dairy farms in my area. Some are organic some are not. The farmers who run these farms DO have high standards, they treat their cattle well from what i see. these barns are cleaner than some peoples homes,and treated better than some people care for their children. I live in canada so our milk regulation laws might vary from the USA, but just because a package says "organic" does not mean that the animals are treated better, fed better. it just means no antibiotics or sprays were used. it doesn't mean that other medicines or horomones weren't given to the said animal (I actually phoned my landlord who is a dairy farmer to ask him what organic means in terms of a dairy farmer). organic means no additives at all!! it means natural, raw. now my momma fed us kids raw milk when we were growing up, today i can't stand the taste of watered down homo milk from the store (i still drink it). have you ever put a glass of raw milk beside a glass of store bought? try it and i think you will be surprised by the difference in color, milk, and textures. I think alot of the farmers in my area do a great job, caring for their animals. I currently have 2 bull calves, that i have been raising since they were 3 days old, they actuallly were fed pasturized milk for the first 3 days they were alive, you know why ? because the colustrum (spelled wrong lol) is the milk that comes out of the mother cow that is full of natural antibodies and protiens to help the calf through the first 3 days of life, and yes it is pasturized. it is no different than a woman feeding an infant breast milk versus formula milk. please excuse the spelling errors, thanks and have a good day