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Tips to Live Healthier for Cheap

There’s some good ideas in this collection of tips about how to live healthier and not spend much money. It’s a good list, but I think it could do without the premise that one must buy things in the first place. That being said, if you buy exercise DVDs or gadgets this article would be [...]

June 2nd, 2009
Topic: Health Tags: , ,

Six Good Things That Pay for Themselves

Being a little greener and a little richer is really easy with these six items that pay for themselves within a year by helping the environment.
5. Programmable Thermostat
Having a programmable thermostat is the easiest way to lower your heating and cooling costs. And having the house temperature right where you want it every hour of [...]

April 20th, 2009
Topic: Direct Action, Good Fact Tags: , , ,

Greenomics

The CBC has a feature article on the emerging green economy and it’s a good read to start the week.
At the same time, some leading multinational corporations are taking action to slash their use of fossil fuels. Manufacturer Johnson and Johnson has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by seven per cent while growing its business [...]

March 10th, 2008
Topic: Environment Tags: , ,

The Rich Stop Sending Money Down the Line

Rich snobs like Paris Hilton make other rich people bothered, and most likely entire societies bothered. Well, hopefully a trend of people who worked hard to earn their fortune not passing their wealth to their children will continue.
Being born into wealth helps people advance in life, and for people who have indeed worked for [...]

January 21st, 2008
Topic: Equality Tags: ,

Turn a Lack of Resources Into a Strength

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Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek has some advice for people who are questioning a jump into something new because they question if they have the resources to do it. Granted, he’s talking about starting a business, but I think that his advice can be applied to everyday living as well. He argues that [...]

January 8th, 2008
Topic: Direct Action Tags: , , , , ,

Starbucks Actually Helps

Starbucks is a massive international coffee chain that is infamous for putting their own coffee shops across the street from one another. They also have a reputation that they drive local independent coffee shops out of business, it seems this reputation is undeserved.
Slate has an article examining how Starbucks helps small coffee shops by giving [...]

January 7th, 2008
Topic: Mind Space Tags: , , , ,