Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Content Keyword RSS
Got a fat wallet but suck at math? Then hide your embarrassment from your pals with the Credit Card Calculator created by world-renowned industrial designer Sam Hecht. The solar powered calculator looks and feels like an ordinary credit card but has embossed numbers and instead of a magnetic strip, a digital display with solar panels are placed instead. Now you can keep your fat wallet as it is without having to shell out unnecessary cash caused by mental math malfunction. $6. Share This
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It’s been quite a year for the cleantech industry, with roller-coaster oil and stock prices, multiyear federal tax credits finally passed after more than a year of narrowly failed attempts, the beginning of a recession and the election of a new president. “It feels like it’s been three years in one just with all the emotions,” said Michael Butler, CEO of investment bank Cascadia Capital. “A lot of people thought they were having a really good year, then they were hit with the negative econ
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Best wishes for 2009 to all readers of this blog. Nick over on Brockley Central has done an excellent recap on the main local events in 2008 (I’ll turn a blind eye to his ongoing attempts to subsume Ladywell into Greater Brockley!!), but I wanted to write a few words from the point of view of a Green councillor on what the main challenges were in the last year and what we managed to achieve. At the beginning of the year we spoke out against plans to expand Heathrow while the Mayor of Lewisham c
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USING GREEN ENERGY TO BUILD SOLAR PANELS AND WIND TURBINES. BUILD YOUR OWN POWERPLANT AND START SAVING NOW!
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Well, we continued to turn off our electric during the day and use our solar panels and batteries. I was keeping track of our usage on a spreadsheet until the electric meter at our site stopped working Christmas Day. Free electricity! 
Actually, we didn’t want to take advantage, so we reported the broken meter to the office. They replaced it today. It was another cloudless, blue-sky day, with temps reaching the 70s. I was back in my shorts. Don & I decided to drive over to Sun
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