green living, smart spending
Not surprisingly, the cars with the worst fuel efficiency are also the most expensive, starting with the $2.25 million Bugatti Veyron, and also include Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Maserati. However, Mercedes-Benz, Cadillac and Chevrolet also show up on the EPA list of worst 2013 MPG cars. Don’t be an ecoXplorer in these gas guzzlers, all
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Ford has partnered with BET to send one lucky winner to the 2013 BET Awards in Los Angeles on June 30th, including exclusive access to the Ford-sponsored pre-show Red Carpet, access to the Ford Hot Spot social media room, where celebs and bloggers hang out to Tweet and Instagram. The winner also gets to travel
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Whether you are interested in food, wine, history, music or vintage cars, there’s a festival somewhere in the world to enjoy in 2013. Travel smarter to these spring and summer festivals: Wine — Most wine festivals are in the fall, around harvest time. New York State’s Finger Lakes is beating the crush (pun intended) with
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The jury is still out on whether or not genetically modified food is potentially dangerous to our health. The federal government says no, along with many scientists, including those who work for the companies that create the genetic modifications. Those include Monsanto and DuPont, whose advertising slogan used to be “better living through chemistry” Many
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Just what the world needs – a stretch Lamborghini Aventador limousine, for your partying pleasure. It’s the limo version of Lamborghini’s Aventador model, complete with the same so-called scissor doors as the conventional model, which is a 690hp. $400,000 two-seater supercar. The stretch version is in the same fiery red orange color as the conventional
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If you have a spare $70,000, you can get a special three-day package for two in a hotel suite overlooking the US Capitol building and the inauguration of President Obama. The deal is at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. More than just a room with a view, this Presidential Entourage package offers several
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The world’s largest annual winter carnival is the annual Quebec Winter Carnival, in the heart of Old Quebec. It is 17 days of fun in the snow, February 1 to February 17, 2013. The daily schedule of festivities includes parades, fireworks, slide runs, a giant foot ball game, concerts, snow sculptures, horse-drawn sleigh rides, dogsled rides, snow sculptures,
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Honda has sold more than one million hybrid vehicles in the 12 years since it released the first generation Honda Insight Hybrid in Japan in 1999. It was the most fuel efficient car on the road at the time, with a fuel economy rating of 35km/liter – the equivalent of approx 80 miles per gallon
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Seattle’s iconic Space Needle is going green with a forest of trees on its roof. This is a virtual forest — a painted one, not a real one — so no trees will actually be growing on the ceiling. The forest design is in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Space Needle in 2012.
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Is the city in the United States where you live — or want to visit — a green city? A British research firm working with Tufts University has rated has rated the 30 Greenest Cities in America for their eco-friendly environmental policies and programs. Not surprisingly, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco were the top three.
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