Congress Manages to Pass a Small Energy Bill That Pleases Nearly Everyone

This is a good way to start off the year.  Not a lot of  positive news has come out of Washington of late, and we teeter, still, on a fiscal cliff, but good small energy legislation getting passed is Dec is good news, worth celebrating.What is noteworthy about this bill is the expansion of language to encourage the development of all new technologies relating to clean energy.  In RI we need updates to promote lots of good alternative sources of energy and commerce, such as EV's and their ability to not only drive clean, but deliver KW's back into the grid while sitting.Here's part of the story...the link is:  http://news.thomasnet.com/green_clean/2012/12/28/congress-manages-to-pass-a-small-energy-bill-that-pleases-nearly-everyone/"While no one has been able to accuse Congress...

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Enjoy the show and tour/2012

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New shows added to our show site

We promoted, and were part of, the sustainable school summit at RIC this year.  As you will see from the two TV shows we produced from the event, the speakers, vendors, exhibitors and overflowing room of professionals and students enjoyed a fantastic day and came away inspired with new ideas and hope.Sustainable changes start with conditioning youth in terms of protecting resources and minimizing their ecological footprint.  We followed this, and you'll see our promotion for this weekend's premier of a new show on ABC and Live Well Network, with a great five-part series on all aspects of sustainable changes in education.Here's the link; come back often and watch us on TV today:  http://www.arpinbroadcastnetwork.com/http___handylawllc.com_.h...

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15 Green New Year's Resolutions that Really Make a Difference (part 2)

Continued from yesterday...thanks to The Daily Green:Stop Receiving Unwanted CatalogsCost: $0Each year, 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers. All those catalogs require more than 53 million trees and 56 billion gallons of wastewater to produce -- and many of us don't even know how we got on so many mailing lists! So grab that stack of catalogs piling up on your coffee table and clear out the clutter. Visit CatalogChoice.org to put a stop to unwanted catalogs. Within 10 weeks, your mailbox will be empty of unwanted catalogs. A less cluttered mailbox means less pollution, less waste and less of the pollution that causes global warming.Give Up Conventional DetergentsCost: $10.25 for one 112-oz boxMany natural detergents today are made to clean clothes just...

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15 Green New Year's Resolutions that Really Make a Difference

Some good ideas from The Daily Green.  We'll run a couple a day:Have you started to think about positive changes for next year?  Please send us your ideas as we work together in 2013 for a better, healthier world:Avoid Waste: RecycleCost: $0For every trash can of waste you put outside for the trash collector, about 70 trash cans of waste are used in order to create that trash. To reduce the amount of waste you produce, buy products in returnable and recyclable containers and recycle as much as you can. The energy saved from recycling a single aluminum can will operate a television for three hours! If your community doesn’t provide containers for recycling, designate a bin in your garage for recyclables to make it easy for you and your family to recycle things like the newspaper...

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Good Christmas gift...our best to you

Happy Holidays!There is still time to clear the air for someone you love. Carbon offsets make a great waste-free, last minute gift, that is meaningful for the environmentalist in your life.We'll email you a customized gift message until 6pm PT on Christmas Eve. Just check "is a gift" at checkout, and enter your message and the email address of the recipient.Now is a great time to give our newest products, made especially for the treehugger or jetsetter in your life, which include a year's worth of flying, driving, home energy use offsets, and more.As always, if you have any questions, you can get in touch with us at support@terrapass.com.  Stay connected. Like us on facebook and follow...

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The outlook for nuclear energy in France

Despite the fact that nuclear energy has lost much of its appeal in the last ten years or so, and especially after the Fukushima accident in Japan, France still gets approximately 77% of its electricity from nuclear energy, which is around 47% of nuclear electricity generated in the entire EU.France has the very long nuclear energy tradition, and the key event that played the most important...

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