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EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that cable and other pay TV boxes that sit atop television sets consume massive amounts of energy, in part because they are always on, even when the TV is off? — Sam Winston, Metarie, LA We hear a lot about how much energy modern [...]

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EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I’ve heard of the slow food movement, but what is “slow money” all about? — Phil Nimkoff, New York, NY “Slow Money” is the name for a movement started by socially conscious investing pioneer and author, Woody Tasch, who essentially borrowed the conceptual framework of “Slow Food”—whereby [...]

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EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I drink diet soda but I’m told it’s bad for me and linked to health problems. Is this true and if so can you suggest any healthier alternatives? — Mitchell James, Ronkonkoma, NY While rumors have circulated for years that diet sodas are unhealthy, researchers have found [...]

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EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I don’t hear much about the environmental impacts of our consumer culture any more, but it seems to me that our “buy, buy, buy” mentality is a major contributor to our overuse of energy and resources. Are any organizations addressing this issue today? — M. Oakes, Miami, [...]

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EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Why can’t plastics of all types, instead of being initially sorted, simply be melted together to be separated later? It must be a monumental and error-prone task to separate truckloads of plastics. — L. Schand, via e-mail The reason plastics aren’t typically melted together and then separated [...]

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