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October 2008

Recycle Your Mail

In the Mail Nationally, more than 35 percent of mail is currently recycled. Whether it’s office paper, catalogs or shipping boxes, it should all be recyclable if properly sorted. Learn more about the different categories of mail and where it can be recycled. Postage Paid One great reason to open mail before you recycle it [...]

Simple Steps to Go Green

Use a more energy-efficient (08-09 model) refrigerator instead of a 2001 model or older. Annual savings = $63 Turn down your gas hot water heater from 140 degrees to 120 degrees. Annual savings = $60 Eat 1/4 less meat. Annual savings per person = $169 Switch from 75-watt incandescent bulbs to 19-watt compact fluorescent bulbs.* [...]

World’s Fastest Snowmobile

Team “Lamtrac G-force” shattered the world snowmobile land speed record a few weeks ago with just a single 1000cc engine. Unable to convince Bonneville Salt Flats authorities to participate in one of their speed events with their snowmobile this past fall, but not giving up they attempted to break the record in Quebec. September 27th [...]

Michigan-Not All Treasures are Buried

Michigan is a Midwestern state named after Lake Michigan whose name is a French adaptation of the Ojibwa Indian term mishigami, meaning large lake. Michigan has the longest freshwater shoreline in the world. Michigan is ranked third for the number of registered recreation boats, behind California and Florida. Michigan has 11,037 inland lakes. A person [...]