A while back, if you stopped your junk mail, they probably just moved the bulk mail to another address. This is because we need to all get on board to stop it. Now with a global awareness of how trees help the environment, it is likely that stopping the junk mail will actually have an impact.

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This may seem an odd fit, as you know I sometimes throw these types of subjects into the mix. The food you prepare at home has an impact on the environment as well as your budget. The budget often causes us to buy more processed or chemically altered food that has a higher yield and therefore pushes costs down for the supplier. However, the processing is really pushing the cost off on the environment and our health. So how do we keep the cost down and the quality up without taxing the environment?

Part of the solution might be as simple as a good recipe that makes use of locally grown foods. Follow the related link for an article with a lot of good recipe ideas to stretch your dollar and be considerate of the environmental impact.

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This is a question raised on another blog. I think there are some good points in the article and heightened awareness can help prevent problems.

We need to consider the impact of renewable energies. Solar panels on rooftops are different than those installed outside a city on a commercial scale in a natural habitat. This may be a call for more wide spread small scale private power generation to offset the amount of commercial size projects.

Clearly we need to consider this.

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From the article:

Texas is now home to the world's largest wind farm. The 781.5 MW Roscoe wind complex has been completed and went live last night at 9:00 p.m.

Built by E.ON Climate & Renewables, the $1 billion farm covers 100,000 acres of land across four counties in West Texas and will be able to power more than 230,000 homes.

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The New York Times has an article about the EPA and GHG's. As Congress is slow to take action, the Obama administration has encouraged the EPA to regulate GHG's.

If this happens, it will affect large producers such as power plants. After my article yesterday, this is really re-enforcement that the cost of fossil fuel driven power will go up in the near future.

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