The greening of Wal-Mart

Posted by Lisa Baertlein in Friday, June 5th 2009   
Topics: Gas Mileage Improvement devices, Gas Prices News    

 Wal-Mart, which helped promote the adoption of those funny-looking “green” lightbulbs, is making more room in its Sam’s Club warehouse stores for environmentally friendly products — including a water-saving toilet that has one button for flushing liquids and another for flushing solids.
Employees at a Sam’s Club in the discounter’s home town in Bentonville, Arkansas, have emptied shelves of things like power tools [...]

Did you power down for Earth Hour?

Posted by Lisa Baertlein in Sunday, March 29th 2009   
Topics: Gas Mileage Improvement devices, Gas Prices News    

The Las Vegas strip (below) and other global icons went dark on Saturday for Earth Hour. What did you do, if anything, to power down?

Haagen-Dazs (hearts) honeybees

Posted by Lisa Baertlein in Friday, February 27th 2009   
Topics: Gas Mileage Improvement devices, Gas Prices News    

Ice cream seller Haagen-Dazs has invested a half-million dollars to save the honeybees and to save us from a future of feeding on gruel.