100 department stores go solar
One hundred Kohl’s department stores now have solar panels generating electricity. The 100th store is in Mays Landing, New Jersey, and recently activated its solar technology. Seven more stores in Pennsylvania are slated to also get their own solar panels by March of 2011.
Each Kohl’s store has about 1,400 panels, which supply about 40 percent of the energy demand at each location. The company estimated
Best Holiday Light Since Rudolph’s Nose
LED Christmas lights use just 10 percent of the energy of incandescents, last for some 50,000 hours, and are cooler and safer than older incandescent lights. So why are you hanging onto those old Christmas lights?
Perhaps the best news of all is this: HolidayLEDs.com will take your old lights, recycle them, and give you a coupon for 15 percent off any LED lights they sell. So
10 Most Surprising Places to Find Petroleum
About one quarter of the oil consumed in this country is used for industrial purposes. Plastic production is the most obvious example, as awareness grows of the harm plastic does to the earth and people shun the material when they can.
But oil has permeated more of our lives than most people realize. Here, the most surprising places you’ll find oil, in some form, as a key ingredient:
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