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Volunteers are needed to help cleanup Flint's Kearsley Park this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be many free family events happening this summer at the park like concerts, art fairs and festivals, so bring your rakes, shovels, paint brushes, and gloves and help us spruce up the place! It's one of Flint's oldest parks, designed by
This is Flint, my hometown. Michael says this video is depressing, and it is, but it makes a good point there at the end. As much as we love this once fair city, we can't help but to poke fun at her from time to time. We say things like “That's so Flint” when referring to something… well, Flint-like in
via www.venturebeat.com/ Could algae be the alternative fuel source we are looking for?
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21031911-5003402,00.html FAST-growing weeds had evolved over a few generations to adapt to climate change, which could signal the start of an “evolution explosion” in response to global warming, US scientists said today.
via Union of Concerned Scientists From the site: “In recent years, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical scientific information. To document this abuse, the Union of Concerned Scientists has created the A to Z Guide to Political Interference
http://www.auri.org/news/ainjul01/05page.htm Electricity from cows? That’s right. Cow Power! Haubenschild Farms is the first Minnesota farm to produce “cow power.” The 760-cow family farm uses anaerobic manure digestion to produce methane for electricity. The waste digester supplies enough power to run the entire farm, plus 78 average homes.
I wake up this morning happy with the world, my wife is gorgeous, I do not have to work today and I have a great weekend planned. The only thing that has even peeved me this morning is the reality disconnect invovled with gasoline pricing (Thanks USAToday for all the news heh). When Oil was $40 a barrel, I was
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http://www.newstarget.com/006760.html Stop eating crap.
Wal-Mart is the favorite store of the middle-class trash-crowd because they are easily mislead by its bait-and-switch business practices. For example, Wal-Mart has been known to set very low prices on a cheap import item predominately located at each section of the store then jack up the rest of the prices in the department to compensate. Being ignorant, the trash
Professor Ian Ayres wrote in the NY Times, “In time for the new school year, the Government Accountability Office has released a sobering report on the soaring price of textbooks. Over the past two decades, the report tells us, 'College textbook prices have risen at double the rate of inflation.'” The outlandish price of college textbooks isn't even the most
Insurance companies are amazingly adept at stupidity. We are talking about “join the union and be a good member” level of stupidity. Obviously they are profitable because they have the ability to tax their customers for new funds to cover each mistake they make and the only recourse is changing firms to another of the same industry with the same