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13 Ways to Make Your Existing Car Greener and Avoid Buying a New One

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

High gas prices got you down? However, buying a new car isn’t in the cards for me right now, so I have to make due with the one I have. Automobiles cause 51 percent of the carbon monoxide pollution in the air, so it’s important to do what we can to make our cars a little less dirty whenever possible.

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11 Ways To Make Personal Travel More Sustainable And Less Polluting

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Sure, your mind may go right to taking the subway or hailing a taxi, but there are many ways to make travel more sustainable and a lot less polluting. Here are 11 ways you can make your transportation needs a little more eco-friendly. While gas is not currently at an all time high, it is still expensive.

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More Drilling is Not The Solution We Need for Our Energy Future

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

That is 20 years from now – that’s a long time for Americans to make big changes and invest in new technologies! The oil and gas industry still has well over 64 million acres of land that has been granted to them to explore on – which they have not even started using. That makes no sense whatsoever.

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