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Now that thanksgiving is over and the annual rush for black Friday has come and gone, it is time to turn our sights on Christmas. I know many people use thanksgiving as the mark for getting into the christmas spirit and making the transition from one holiday to the next. Thus the next logical step for these people would be to decorate their houses, dust off the Christmas ornaments and buy or setup your christmas tree.

christmas tree farm

I was first introduced to solar energy in the movie, Race the Sun with James Belushi and Halley Berry in the lead. It was a story about low- income and under achieving Hawaiian students encouraged by their teacher to join the Solar Car race. In the movie, a car shaped like a cockroach and covered with solar panels used the sun’s rays as an alternative energy source to run the car.

Solar energy is the light and the heat from the sun. Solar energy is free and its supplies are unlimited. There are n air and water pollution caused about by using solar energy. But there is still some impacts on the environment although indirect.

Home Energy Saving Devices

If your electric meter is spinning as fast as slot machines for as long as you can remember, then today is the right time to be concerned. You are paying large on electric bills month after month right? And you are still trying to figure out how will you be able to lower down your energy cost to somehow make paying easier for you.

save electricity

With the recession looming over our heads, if it is not already here, it has become more and more necessary for us to be a little more frugal when it comes to our spending habits. It has also become a very smart practice to pursue the possibilities of different ways of saving money.

There are so many different ways one can save money that I could spend all day talking about it, but in this specific post I would like to talk about how you can save money by reducing your electricity bill.

With Thanksgiving right around the corner and Christmas closing quickly behind it the need for greeting cards will begin to increase. It will be the season for sending greeting cards to family members and friends alike.

While I have never been one to send many greeting cards my wife is an avid greeting card enthusiast. She enjoys picking them out and finding just the right card to send. This has become almost a past time of hers which led me to do a search for a printing company that was environmentally friendly.

It looks as though Barrack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States. Here is Obamas Acceptance Speech Video out of Chicago.

If you did not have the opportunity to catch Obama’s Victory Speech last Night here it is in its entirety.

Here is Part 1 from Obama’s acceptance Speech

Here is Part 2 from Obama’s acceptance Speech

According to CNN it looks as though the US Senate Election Results have been tallied. It looks as though the balance of the power has shifted in favor of the democrats.

With 35 Senate seats available in this 2008 Election 17 have already been projected to be for the Democratic Party. 14 have been projected to have been for the Republican Party. In addition to these Senate Seats there are currently 4 Senate seats that have been left undecided.

The US Senate Election Results give us approximately 56 Democratic Senators versus only 40 Republican senators and 4 seats yet to be decided. This definitely shifts the balance of power over to the democratic party.

The proposition (California Proposition 8 ) to ban same sex marriage in California looks like it will be passed by a slim margin of Victory. The results are in for California Prop 8 and the results show 96.4% of the districts have been submitted.

The tally shows

08 – Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry
YES: 5,220,694 52.2%
NO: 4,792,873 47.8%

There are approximately less than 4% of the vote remaining. It would take a landslide in favor of the No vote to not be passed into legislature.

Here is a video on California Prop 8

Nothing is better than getting things for free. On election day there are a couple of locations where you may be able to get some things for free depending on where you are at.

Here are a couple of promotions for those that are willing to get out and vote.

Starbucks – Is offering a free tall brewed coffee.

Krispy Kreme is offering a star shaped donut in exchange for an I voted Sticker.

krispy-kreme

Rock The Vote is offering a free Music MP3 in exchange for a voting Pledge:

Free MP3

For those of you interested in immediate real time election results you should take a look at some of these sites:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

http://fivethirtyeight.com
http://realclearpolitics.com

With many key senate seats up for grabs and the obvious presidential election it could be a real change in administration depending on the voting turnout.

Weather.com is reporting rain in many of the eastern states. This should be good news for the GOP as historically those who are lower income tend not to vote in bad weather.