RecycleBlog by RecycleBillhttp://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/Environmental news, recycling, green living and news about RecycleBills.en-US2010-03-22T15:31:25ZSquarespace Site Server v5.10.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Veggisode 42http://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/veggisode-42.htmlRecycleBill2010-03-21T23:05:13ZVegetable StalkerThe War Of The Roses
The Vegetable Stalker in Brazil! Stay tuned to this Veggie News Network station to find out more.
]]>Dumber Than A Box Of Rockshttp://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/dumber-than-a-box-of-rocks.htmlRecycleBill2010-03-21T22:06:28ZThis WeekOr, Should Politicians Be Required To Take IQ Tests?
It's true, RecycleBill has no life but at least I've got a blog and for that I guess I should be grateful 'cause some people don't even have that. And so we begin another recap of the week's events with a bit of commentary thrown in. Our most read posts for the past 7 days were:
The community who made the most use of our local recyclers search engine was non other than Wilmington, North Carolina. My thanks for helping to make North Carolina clean and green.
And finally, the websites and blogs who sent the most readers our way were... the usual suspects. Our thanks go out to all of you.]]>Traveling The Green Time Machinehttp://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/traveling-the-green-time-machine.htmlRecycleBill2010-03-21T13:39:29ZStupid DesignersOr, The Only Green Clock Is A Sundial?
Maybe, just maybe this wouldn't be of any concern if all the green gadgets were really green, For example:]]>About That Google Fiber Bar Ross And Shoe Are Promotinghttp://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/about-that-google-fiber-bar-ross-and-shoe-are-promoting.htmlRecycleBill2010-03-21T01:11:27ZHow To green businessOr, FYI?
The Google Fiber Bar is powered by Wibiya.com and earns its keep via Adsense advertising placed in the search results and by marketing the info they glean from users. Wibiya is owned by Modular Patterns Ltd., an Israeli startup company founded in 2008 which is backed by Dr. Yossi Vardi.
As to any possible revenue Ross and TheShu happen to earn from the installation of the Fiber Bar I really can't say.
The Fiber Bar makes public your websites' stats through Whois.Amung.us. The page you see displayed belongs to Ed Cone. I would have thought Ed's traffic was higher.
The Fiber Bar slows the loading time for any website on which it is installed to the point that those persons with slow Internet connections cannot view the sites on which it is installed. I have to leave home and go to the office to read Ed's blog now that he has installed the Fiber Bar.
But for RecycleBill, the most disconcerting thing about the Fiber Bar is the additional bandwidth it requires to function. You see, bandwidth requires energy and the production of energy depletes the Earth's natural resources and increases our dependence on foreign oil.
Without a doubt the lower energy needs of fiber optics would help green Greensboro's information technologies but if you're serious about bringing fiber optics to Greensboro. Well, you know how links work.]]>Tapped Or Tapped Out?http://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/tapped-or-tapped-out.htmlRecycleBill2010-03-20T01:02:40ZconservationOr, Water, Water Everywhere?
RecycleBill doesn't plan to get caught without enough to meet my needs.]]>Another Tree In Another Reforesthttp://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/another-tree-in-another-reforest.htmlRecycleBill2010-03-20T00:40:44ZconservationOr, It's Not Easy Being Green?
A famous frog once complained about how hard it is to be green but because RecycleBill likes a challenge I work hard to help you be green even if your name isn't Kermit.
Tonight I planted my 4th tree in a reforestation project and I did it without spending a dime, digging a hole or even leaving my computer. I did it by joining Swagbucks, accumulating 15 Swagbucks and redeeming them to plant a tree while Swagbucks picks up the tab.
And I'm hoping you'll do the same before you move on to become Green enough for RecycleBill.]]>Recycling Connersvillehttp://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/recycling-connersville.htmlRecycleBill2010-03-19T10:00:43ZrecyclebillsRecycleBills.com. Need to add your recycling center? Just click the link.]]>��A Sure Fire Way To Bring Google To Greensborohttp://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/a-sure-fire-way-to-bring-google-to-greensboro.htmlRecycleBill2010-03-19T01:01:56Zgreen economicsOr, Build It And They Will Come?
I'm always amazed at how shorted sighted even the most influential among us become whenever anything shiny passes before their eyes. But I'm glad to finally see that others in Greensboro are beginning to see what I've been saying all along, PR and publicity stunts won't bring Google's fiber optic cable to Greensboro, North Carolina or any other city in America. So while cities across the nation are busy wasting taxpayer dollars on making us all look like cheap whores, the folks at Google are laughing their asses off.
But if any city in America is serious about attracting providers of fiber optic services then they need to know the way to start attracting the likes of Google and their competitors you only need say to them, "If you don't build it, we will."
You see, nothing moves corporations to act faster than the possibility that a potential market will be gone before they manage to get control of the market. Don't believe me? Then why is Time Warner trying to get the State of North Carolina to ban community owned fiber optic systems.
Take our current system of cable companies for example. When Cablevision of Greensboro was first brought to life the cable company wasn't even interested in serving all of Greensboro. My neighborhood wasn't served at all. It was only when another cable company from who knows where started building on the fringes along the city limits that Cablevision of Greensboro took interest and bought out the smaller company. As one who was working for that other company at the time, we all knew the only reason we were building the system was to lure Cablevision of Greensboro's parent company, Time Warner, into buying the system we built. We built the entire system using the cheapest products we could find and before we finished building it the earliest portions were already due to be rebuilt.
And if you think Greensboro was the exception: the company I worked for at the time built hundreds of cheap cable systems in towns and cities all over America and sold every one of those cheap systems to Time Warner, Comcast, Burnip and Sims and the other giants of the day. We were one of hundreds of such companies who built cable systems for the sole purpose of selling them to the cable giants who would pay almost any price to keep their monopolies. We even went so far as to find cities that already had cable but no franchise agreement with their cable provider because we could open up a competing company offering cheaper prices.... Most of those systems got bought up before we even managed to finish building them and in some cases the cable giants paid us to tear down our competing systems and go away.
Other cities allowed a sort of cable free for all whereby the first cable company to get cable into any given neighborhood got the franchise for that neighborhood. There were even instances where clandestine cable crews vandalized their competitors' systems by dark of night in order to slow their growth.
The men I worked for at the time got very rich building where the cable companies had yet to build and if Greensboro, North Carolina or any other city in America is serious about fiber optics then you only need remember, "Build it and they will come."]]>In Case You Haven't Noticedhttp://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/in-case-you-havent-noticed.htmlRecycleBill2010-03-18T01:09:38ZrecyclebillsOr, Where Have You Been Charming Billy
RecycleBill hasn't been blogging as much lately. Besides increased business and an increased workload at the day job, adding more recyclers to the local recyclers search engine, my current landscaping projects, getting the gardens planted and everything else, last weekend I started construction of a new and larger shop to house EZ Motorbikes of Greensboro. I'll never get everything done but that seems normal to me.
When I get moved into the new shop I'll use the old shop as a parts department and place to house newly assembled EZ Motorbikes and other brands I may carry.]]>Rising Copper Prices Bad For Artisanshttp://recyclebills.com/recycleblog/rising-copper-prices-bad-for-artisans.htmlRecycleBill2010-03-18T00:24:50Zgreen artsOr, Copper By The Dozen?
The price of scrap copper is currently rising fast and while I know a lot of my readers need every dime they can get, Roberto Castro Hernandez of Santa Clara del Cobre]]>