• The Environment

    The Great Green Hack

    By Posted on 6.24.2008 13 Comments

    From converting your lawn mower to solar power to brewing your own biofuel, there are plenty of steps the more industrious green citizen can take beyond recycling and CF bulbs. Get started below.

    6.15.2008 at 08:53pm - Comment by pwhite42

    It does appear that PopSci has gone for the "green" koolaid. I have to agree that it is a liberal agenda, which the left should own up to. These are the same folks who think the UN should run the world. Imagine how far back that would send humanity! As for articles in the green issue, I was surprised you were showing off a sleeping bag that gave off carbon dioxide on page 24 and as another writer mentioned a $1500 electric mower conversion. I just bought an electric mower for practical reasons for $459. It's a nice mower, which always starts when the family goes to use it. A spare battery was about $90. That's a lot less than the conversion on page 45 and it comes with a 4 year warranty. The hairy plant article on page 41 reminded me a Kurt Vonnegut story, Ice 9, that I read many years ago. It was a story on scientific manipulation gone wild. How about sticking to the facts and the practical, not unproven pie-in -sky fantasy?



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