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Coke’s Plant-Based Bottles Won’t Fix Bad Consumer Habits

In another minor effort to appease critics of wasteful, petroleum-based plastic bottles, Coca-Cola Co. has introduced a new packaging alternative made from 30% sugar cane-based materials. The other 70% is made from – you guessed it – petroleum-derived polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Coca-Cola says it plans to shift to this packaging for all beverages it produces, and [...]

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Buy Nothing but Necessities for a Month

We’ve been getting word from various sources around the web of people with a common goal: trying to purchase nothing but absolute necessities for one month. Not only would it help you save money, but it could really teach you a lesson in how much unneeded junk you purchase without really even thinking about [...]

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Buy One House, Get One Free

Top sign the housing market is still going downhill: when you purchase one McMansion, you get a smaller yet still ‘luxurious’ row home free. No kidding. One San Diego real estate developer has clearly gotten very, very desperate to sell homes.
From the LA Times:
We thought, ‘Why does it just have to be on Pop Tarts [...]

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Reuters Reporters Can’t Believe Billionaire Oilman Is Investing in Wind to Make Money

With a name like T. Boone Pickens, Jr., how could you not grow up to be a billionaire oilman?
80 year old T. Boone made his billions over the decades by growing his oil company through a flurry of mergers and acquisitions and is now setting his sites on the wind. His plan calls for spending [...]

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Green Vaporwear, Hucksterism, and Electric Cars- Wired Magazine Unloads on Zap!

Holy crap did Wired Magazine just unload on electric car company Zap!. It sounds like the company is run by a couple of shady hucksters who have enriched themselves at the expense of their customers, employees, and franchisees while screwing things up for all the real green car companies with their constant over promising and [...]

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Video Shows Growth of Wal-Mart Matches Outbreak of Infectious Disease

This is awesome- Kiwi Tobes has a downright creepy video showing the growth of Wal-Mart since its founding. I’d be willing to lay a tenner down on the table betting that the growth of Wal-Mart is similar to the outbreak pattern of an infectious disease released from Bentonville- think Stephen Kings The Stand here.
It’s pretty [...]

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