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Trade in Your Piece of Junk
July 2nd, 2009 categories: Buyer's Advice, Green Events, Neighborhood and City events/highlights, Restaurants, Seller's Advice
Obama signed into law a great new program that the (NHTSA) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has named (CARS) the Car Allowance Rebate 
System. This is a government program that helps you purchase a new, more fuel efficient vehicle when you trade in a less fuel efficient vehicle. See the Frequently Asked Questions for more details.
Criteria:
- Your vehicle must be less than 25 years old.
- Only purchase or leases of new vehicles qualify
- Trade-in vehicles must get 18 or less MPG (some pick-up trucks, cargo vans have different criteria)
- Must be registered and insured continuously for the full year preceding the trade-in.
- You don’t need a voucher; dealers will apply a credit at purchase.
- The program runs through Nov 1, 2009 or when the funds are exhausted, whichever comes first. First come first served
- The vehicle that you are trading in will be destroyed. The value you negotiate with the dealer should not exceed its scrap value. The law requires the dealer to disclose to you and estimate of the scrap value when trading in your vehicle.
Beginning date is around July 23. See Program Rollout
How their guarding against fraud during the program? Click here for more information.
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The Power of Renewable Energy can do for a Community
December 14th, 2008 categories: Buyer's Advice, Energy Saving Tips, Green Events
Eigg (Gaelic: is one of the Small Isles, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is situated south of the Isle of Skye. Eigg is 9 kilometers long from north to south, and 5 kilometers east to west. With an area of 12sq miles.
The only way to get to the Isle of Eigg is ferry. Islanders hug the pier in wait of friends and family or delivery of letters and parcels. There is a tearoom by the quay, where kettles boil water for drinks, eggs and bacon frying on the pan.
When the power fails, they would have to rush up the hill to the fuse box and try to fix it – with a 
just-cooked grilled sandwich in the frying pan. A weak power supply produced by the tearoom’s diesel generator meant that the dishwasher be turned off while the oven stayed on. The small freezer switches off at night and the main generator also. Residents had to rely on noisy, expensive diesel generators or mini-hydroelectric generators. They had to use candles or gas lamps to locate themselves at night.
But, On Feb. 1, all of Eigg switched on its own continuous, clean, and renewable energy supply. For the first time in the UK, locally generated wind, hydro and solar energy are combined providing continuous power to the isle of Eigg.
The islanders are completely off-grid – relying on a £1.6m system that draws power from wind, solar and hydroelectric energy sources.
Supplies more than 95% of Eigg’s annual energy needs and backed up by a battery storage system and two diesel generators. It supplies 45 households, 6 community buildings and 20 businesses an a 6-mile voltage network.
What has been used before the invention of “Combustion engines”? Yes – Water Power and Wind which obviously will be our choice when we rid our unsustainable dependence on fossil fuels and frees us from dependency on imported fuels.
The Isle of Eigg has set an example for developing countries when people work collectively to accomplish such an important goal to be ENERGY EFFICIENT
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Richard Branson Launches Eco-Consulting Group
September 4th, 2008 categories: Green Events, Neighborhood and City events/highlights, Real Estate New
Branson Plans to create a Zero Carbon Resort and emerges also with an Eco-Consulting Group. Branson plans to turn Mosquito Island in the British Virgin Islands into the most environmentally friendly resort in the world. Located off Virgin Gorda close to his Necker Island, an uninhibited Island, imagines it being a beachfront with restaurants and 20 villas powered by solar and wind.
Thermal airflows will completely rid the need for air conditioners in the restaurant’s, while food will come from an organic orchard on which vehicles will run on biofuel.
The response from the government has been enormously positive to become the most environmentally friendly island.
Branson also says he is creating an eco consulting group called Virgin Green Owls. Which will advise governments and corporations in carbon neutral projects beginning in August.
Following the British government’s criticism of British Airways last year.
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