green living, smart spending
Going Green News: Honda is launching a program that allows owners of its electric vehicles to get money back when they recharge vehicles when demand on their local grid is lowest and availablity of renewable energy is highest. The new Honda SmartCharge program helps you save money and reduce your environmental footprint at the same
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Going green is much more than a trendy thing to do, since it will help save the green in your wallet at the same time it helps keep our planet green, or at least help to slow the progress of air and water pollution and climate change. Be eco-friendly to Mother Earth and
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The price of jet fuel is going up, and JetBlue is passing on the cost to passengers by increasing the cost of checking a bag. It’s just $5, from $25 a bag to $30 for the first bag, and from $35 to $40 for the second checked bag, each way, but that effectively raises the
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WOW what an airfare deal to Europe! WOW air is offering $129 one-way fares from all 13 airports it serves in the USA to 11 cities in Europe. You must purchase a round-trip fare, which means $258, which is around $500 less than such a ticket would cost from most other airlines. The discount fares
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Ageless Adventurer: Although regular exercise and a balanced diet with healthy foods is the best way to stay healthy at any age, there are some tweaks you should be making as you age, including to your daily vitamin and mineral supplements. Here’s some healthy advice about what to eat in every decade of your life,
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Rimac is a small automotive technology company, based in Croatia, with big plans. They are launching a $2 Million electric supercar using the lithium batteries and systems Rimac produces for brands including Land Rover and Koenigsegg. The Rimac C-Two is a beauty, with stunning good looks power and technology, scissor doors, 1,194 HP, 230 MPH
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Your smart TV is smarter than you are. While you are watching it, or playing games on it, it is watching you, and feeding that information to advertisers and other data mining companies. The smart TV privacy issue is similar to the recent Facebook scandal about user information being shared without our knowledge to a
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Milwaukee will be the center of the motorcycle universe over Labor Day Weekend when Harley-Davidson riders and fans gather for the end of a year-long celebration of 115 years as one of the world’s most recognized brands and the definition of riding freedom. New for 2018 are motorcycle events throughout the city. Harley-Davidson will host
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Even if you are an experienced traveler, it’s easy to make costly travel mistakes. As the peak summer travel season gears up, here’s how to avoid some of the worst travel mistakes, and save time and stress along with saving your travel budget, because sometimes saving money costs more in the long run. It’s called
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Meet the world’s largest electric vehicle, expected to save more than 1,300 tons of CO2 emissions and 125,000 gallons of diesel fuel over the next decade. Not suprisingly, this huge dump truck also has the largest battery ever made for an electric vehicle. The world’s largest biggest electric vehicle is on the job in the
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