Reenita's Wisdom

Marcus and Joel, two super eco dudes from Southern California, decided to sail across the Pacific Ocean on a junk raft made from plastic bottles and recycled sailboat masts. Marcus
’ fiancé Anna (get this, they were engaged in the Gyre on their last journey) stayed on shore to tell everyone about it.

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The latest news from the Reuters Global Environment Summit is that hydrogen cars could become a reality in California very soon. The state plans to build out “Hydrogen Cities” to support the hydrogen car industry.

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The mango is so widely available in India, that the fruit itself is named aam which translates from Sanskrit as common. Even though the Indian subcontinent is home to more than a thousand varieties of mango, most Indians identify the fruit with the Alphonso variety.

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Marc Faber, editor of the “Gloom, Boom and Doom report,” was a keynote speaker at Asian Investor magazine’s 5th Annual Investment Summit last week. He had some interesting things to say about the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy vis-a-vis the financial crisis.

Dr. Faber remains pessimistic about the U.S. Federal Reserve’s economic interventions. Excessive credit growth and leverage have driven monetary and economic instability, he says.

“Recently Paul Krugman wrote a 6,000-word article in the New York Times with the title ‘How did economists get it so wrong?’. The title should have been ‘How did I, Paul Krugman, get it so wrong?’.” So says famed bear Marc Faber, also known as Dr Doom, at AsianInvestor‘s recent Southeast Asian Institutional Investor Forum in Bangkok last year.

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Even if you have not really thought about it yet, going green this Halloween is an easy and sustainable exercise. To make it even easier for you, I have put together this cheat sheet of Top 10 Green Halloween posts that were created in the last month. Have a wonderfully green holiday!

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