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Trade in your clunker and get cash off a new vehicle. Visit http://cars.gov/flow-chart.html

Check out America’s First Self-Service Public Bike Rental program of it’s kind! The program is currently running in DC and will progress to other cities if it’s a hit.

The fee is $40 per year. You sign up and then receive a card which you activate on the website.

There are ten Smartbike rental locations in the D.C. area.

Clotheslines make a comeback! Do your Laundry “Online”

With the cost of operating an electric clothes dryer around $100 per year - more in the summer months - many people are turning to “solar dryers” a.k.a. the clothesline.  I enjoy hanging my clothes out there, and I’m thankful for three huge trees in my yard which form the Laundry Triangle. I ran a line around all of them and I can get three loads of wash out there, easy.

Some members of my family don’t like their stiff clothes after they’ve come in off the line. To remedy this, I bring them in when they’re still slightly damp and toss them in the dryer for 5 minutes or so. Problem solved.

Supposedly line drying will make your clothes last and look better longer. Plus, they’ll have fewer wrinkles and no static cling!

With gas prices what they are, more folks are riding bikes. I’m especially into these four-wheel bikes so you can have passengers with you, much like the Flintstone’s car, but powered by pedal action.

 

Neighbors of Michael Mercurio in a New Jersey Shore town are complaining about his 35-foot windmill that generates power which he adds to the grid! He’s also got a bunch of solar panels on the roof and people are saying it’s an eyesore. Looking at the pictures, I’d say the real eyesore is all those telephone poles and wires running through the area. The windmill looks perfectly fine to me. I can’t believe his neighbors are suing.

I’ll keep my eyes on this case and let you know what happens…

Check out the Live Earth Concerts and help spread the word so that we can make the world aware and act now to stop the spread of dangerous environmental changes that affect the health of our home, planet Earth.

I have been wanting to purchase a CompostTumbler for a couple of years now. I just couldn’t see spending all that money on something that I would be filling with dead leaves and food scraps.

My solution was to use a plastic dog crate that my puppy had outgrown. I was just in the yard, rolling it around and watching all that beautiful compost sift out through the air holes. The sticks didn’t break down to well, but everything else did and I’m very pleased, except for the amount of time it took to get a nice batch of compost. The CompostTumbler can often produce a ready batch of compost in 14 days. Mine took way longer than that.

If you sign up at Green Dimes, you’ll help save the environment and help find missing kids too!. Actor Matt Damon was so impressed with the operation that he requested a seat on the Board, and now he’s on board.

Cut junk mail

Plant Trees

join Green Dimes.com 

Friday, May 18th is Bike-to-Work Day. Those of you who are able should partake of this observance. If you don’t work, then I guess you’re off the hook.

Check out this cute film starring Halle Berry about a contest to build a solar-powered vehicle.