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  • 1 Lisa // Sep 5, 2008 at 6:08 pm

    I love your blog! I’ve been doing a lot of webcrawling in the green sphere lately and you have lots of items I haven’t seen anywhere else.
    I was thinking you might be interested in posting to my website http://www.AltGlobe.com. We’re a pretty new alternative and green networking site and you would be a fantastic addition to the community. We’ve had a couple of discussions recently about the “existence” of global warming. I wish you’d been there!

    Please check us out and let me know what you think.

    Best wishes~
    Lisa
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  • 3 J Clarkson // Oct 2, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Actually your article shows how narrow minded the USA actually is when it comes to way it goes about using these vast sums. The amount they mention: $100 billion sounds like a lot, but if it is given to energy agencies, who then provide rebates for weatherization, most people will never ever know about it.

    The way to create some REAL jobs and REAL success stories is to follow the UK example. Make the energy companies themselves raise their prices by $20 per year. Use this fund in each area to provide weatherization. Take your $100 billion and provide 50% to 60% funds first come first served for renewable energy projects that involve installing micro-generation in homes. These would include PV, Ground source heat pumps, solar hot water heating, and small scale hydro, and biomass heating. Make sure these are home or apartment projects only. (Small scale). And only in homes that have had weatherization already.

    Do the above over a 10 year period and you will have a flourishing nation, that no longer needs oil to heat its homes. You can then conserve the oil (store it) for the times in the future when the USA may require oil.

  • 4 Bruce Knight // Jan 22, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    Wayne,

    I see you have a complete, exact copy of several articles from our website, GreenTerraFirma.com which we are very happy to share. We would appreciate a link back to the original article for each copy, as opposed to our name in square brackets, with the .com portion removed.

    Best regards,
    Bruce Knight
    GreenTerraFirma.com

  • 5 Bill Hawthorne // Jul 8, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    Hello,

    My name is Bill Hawthorne, and I represent maacenter.org, a leading web resource for asbestos exposure and mesothelioma cancer information. Our organization is dedicated to increasing awareness of the terrible health consequences of asbestos exposure through the distribution of the best informational materials and public outreach efforts.

    I found your site through a search and decided to contact you because of its high environmental and green presence which is extremely important in our movement. Your viewers are extremely savvy and motivated. The promotion of how buildings should now be built using sustainable green products to avoid asbestos and mesothelioma as well as the awareness of past buildings and preventative steps in avoiding asbestos exposure are extremely important. My goal is to get a resource link on your site/blog or even to provide a guest posting to be placed.

    I look forward to hearing from you. Please feel free to check out our website. Thank you for your time and consideration.

    Bill

  • 6 w street // Jul 12, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Can somebody please explain to me, with all the new energy wind farms being built, and the amount of work being done in this field. Why are we continuing to destroy are own industrial world by closing down factories and work areas across the south, which could be improved to provide the work needed for these farms. I find it amazing that so much work is being done from abroad when are facilities are here and with a little work would help put our own wind turbine industry back on the map and also employ workers from England

  • 7 Joost // Aug 8, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    Dear Mr/Mrs,

    Surfing and searching the internet I stumbled upon your great website. I also noticed you provide your visitors with links to visitworthy

    environmental websites.

    On the 22 of July (2009) we launched our new green hub Climatarians (http://climatarians.org). There is A LOT to do on our website:
    - users can create their own blog
    - users can discuss at our forum or in their group
    - users can write articles at our wiki
    - users can login with their Facebook (www.facebook.com) account and invite friends
    - organizations can submit themselves to our directory (oops!… businesses have to pay)
    - users can submit or search events
    - users can submit or search job openings

    We belief that -at least- some of your visitors find our website visitworthy and we hope you want to mention it in an article or grant us a

    link to our website.

    If you would like to receive more information about me or Climatarians please don’t hesitate to contact me.

    Thank you for your time and attention.

    Best regards,

    Joost Hoogstrate, founder

  • 8 Eelco // Nov 11, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    Dear webmaster,

    Do you want to exchange links with Saving-energy.eu?
    http://Saving-energy.eu

    Saving Energy is the European portal for scientists and other people who want to contribute to a lower energy consumption.

    We’d like to hear from you soon. Thank you in advance.

    PS. Saving-Energy.eu has worked out a label for an energy efficient website. You can find information about this label on the website.

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