Buying Used Cars the way to Go Green?

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:53:46 -0700

Buying used is the way to go green

Feel eco-guilty about buying a used car? Don’t. “Used cars” and “green cars” seem like diametrically opposing expressions but the truth is buying a used car may be a better way to help combat pollution and global warming than buying a new hybrid. At least, for the next couple of years until used hybrids become available. Click here for entire article.....

LoCOST “MAX” Blog....

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:57:03 -0700

Sunflower Phytoremediation

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:32:45 -0700

SUNFLOWERS
According to the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District, "phytoremediation is the use of specialized plants to clean up polluted soil. While most plants exposed to high levels of soil toxins will be injured or die, scientists have discovered that certain plants are resistant, and an even smaller group actually thrive. The thriving plants show a particular potential for remediation because it has been shown that some of them actually transport and accumulate extremely high levels of soil pollutants within their bodies. They are therefore aptly named hyper-accumulators.
"Hyper-accumulators already are being used throughout the country to help clean up heavy metal polluted soil. Heavy metals are some of the most stubborn soil pollutants. They can bond very tightly to soil particles, and they cannot be broken down by microbial processes. Most heavy metals are also essential plant nutrients, so plants have the ability to take up the metals and transport them throughout their bodies. However, on polluted soil, the levels of heavy metals are often hundreds of times greater than normal, and this overexposure is toxic to the vast majority of plants. Hyper-accumulators, on the other hand, actually prefer these high concentrations. Essentially, hyper-accumulators are acting as natural vacuum cleaners, sucking pollutants out of the soil and depositing them in their above ground leaves and shoots. Removing the metals is as simple as pruning or cutting the hyper-accumulators above ground mass, not excavating tons of soil."
Although sunflowers are one such hyper-accumulator, Replant New Orleans has been focusing energy on bioremediation, and are no longer conducting phytoremediation projects. If you would like more information about bioremediation or phytoremediation, please e-mail us your questions at trees@replantneworleans.org.

Getting to the sled dog races..with a PlantDrive kit! click link below...

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:41:45 -0700

Introduction

Buying Used Cars the way to Go Green?

LoCOST “MAX” Blog....

PATENTED PROCESS FOR NEUTRALIZING OIL

Sunflower Phytoremediation

Getting to the sled dog races..with a PlantDrive kit! click link below...