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• It's OK to Use the Free Stuff You Get in Junk Mail
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 11:48:05 PM, by Mark Jeantheau) According to several pieces of junk mail the Grinning Planet offices have received this year, we can get 37 CDs for just a penny! Fine, as long as we don't have to listen to the complimentary copy of "Megadeth Plays Liberace." We're really here toda...
• How You Can Give Better Holiday Gifts AND Be More
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 11:48:05 PM, by Mark Jeantheau) It's the holiday shopping season, and Grinning Planet would like to point out that the holiday phrase "Ho, ho, ho!" also relates to being green--it's the Jolly Green Giant's tagline. Well, OK, that doesn't exactly get us to the "eco-friendly" meaning o...
• How to Dial Up a Recycling Solution for Your Cell Phone
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 11:48:05 PM, by Mark Jeantheau) Would you care to offer an opinion on what a person should do with his obsolete cell phone? Now, now... We don't want to hear about what you thought that guy who was talking on his cell phone during the movie should do with it... The bad manners of a ...
• Plastic recycling confusion
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 11:48:05 PM, by David Leonhardt) CONSUMER ALERT: do not mix your food container lids. A yogurt container lid is NOT the same as a margarine container lid, even if they look the same. How do I know this? Well, here is my story. We live in a very hoity-toity county. Sure, it might lo...
• Smoking
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 11:48:05 PM, by Michelle Earl) SMOKING Tendrills of smoke circle my head The smell of it fills me with dread. Especially when I don't smoke It's only when other people take a toke. It burns It makes my stomach churn My eyes hurt And I'm very curt. I'm curt because I want my...
• Looking At Time With A Capital T
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 11:48:05 PM, by Maya Talisman Frost) I keep a fossil on my desk at all times. Whenever I feel rushed or find myself creating a sense of urgency, I pick up the fossil and caress its polished surface. It’s over 200 million years old. Suddenly, returning that phone call or meeting that self...
• Can sustainable development work? What then will be the impact
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 11:48:05 PM, by Ronald Munro) First we must define sustainable development. Sustainable is to say that something such as resources or an environmental system can be continued indefinitely without depleting any of the material or energy resources required to keep it running. Dev...
• Evolution of matter
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 11:48:05 PM, by Vadim Smolyanov and Valentina Smolyanova) © 2003 Vadim Smolyanov and Valentina Smolyanova Translated from Russian. We shall be glad to receive your remarks on stylistics, grammar, and content. Chapter I. Evolution of lifeless matter We more likely fortunately than unfortunately are in t...
• Shedding Light on Cheaper Solar Energy
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 11:48:05 PM, by Brenda Townsend Hall) Renewable sources of energy are the key to solving two of the worlds most pressing yet seemingly irreconcilable problems. On the one hand the developing world needs vastly to increase access to affordable energy because, at present, 1.6 billion people...
• Have Bananas Lost Their Mojo?
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 11:48:05 PM, by Aimee Cremasco) Though their sexy shape may resemble a "GoldMember," modern-day bananas simply aren't shagadellic. According to Belgian and French scientists, bananas may become extinct within the next 10 years due to their lack of genetic diversity, which makes them ...

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