Awesome CowPots™

Awesome CowPots™

I watched a new episode of Dirty Jobs earlier this evening and I have been inspired to write about it. This time Mike interned with the awesome farmer/inventor/entrepreneur who makes CowPots™ . “Matt and Ben Freund are second generation dairy farmers in the northwest hills of Connecticut.” They maximized what most people [...]

January 15th, 2008 by The Phoenix 

Congratulations to Maryland’s Team @ the Solar Decathlon 2007!

The Solar Decathlon winners were announced today and among 20  deserving universities chosen world wide to compete by the US Department of Energy, University of Maryland won 2nd place beating Cornell, MIT, Duke and other universities! I should have known about this earlier this week so that I could have at least [...]

October 19th, 2007 by The Phoenix 

Kudos to Costco’s Green Program

I was looking around for electronics at Costco.com the other day and I was very impressed with the Trade In or Recycle Program. They make it easy to send your old electronic equipment for trade-in or recycle. You can use the online Value Estimator to display your potential trade-in value or send an [...]

October 14th, 2007 by The Phoenix 

Natural Skin Care

I have been into natural skin care products for a while now. People are finally realizing that what has worked for the ladies for centuries can still work wonders today. I don’t know how it got to the point when they thought synthetic chemicals is better for the skin. Well, synthetic [...]

October 9th, 2007 by The Phoenix 

Spanking New Recycle Bin

Spanking New Recycle Bin

We have been using a plastic tub for our recyclables(glass bottles, jars and plastic containers) for the past 6+ years and it’s holey appearance was getting to me. We have been planning to get our free bin but never made the time to. When we returned our cable box to Millenium Cable last [...]

August 19th, 2007 by The Phoenix 
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