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 "You can also find them used in your local classifieds or online at ebay (www.ebay.com).
If money is not an issue, you may even consider an "extreme kitchen makeover." Some people, for example, get rid of the stove altogether to create more kitchen space for the gadgets or for an additional refrigerator.
In preparing raw gourmet recipes, there are two indispensable kitchen tools: a food processor and a temperature-controlled dehydrator. The food processor will blend the food into a much creamier consistency than a simple blender will."- Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
 "It is even available via ebay and here even cheaper than through the normal channels. To avoid getting caught in the controls the athletes just stop taking it a week before the contest.
EPO is a hormone, produced from the extraction of the hormone from the ovaries of the Chinese squirrel, and allegedly increases endurance by pushing the body to produce more red blood cells. It adds oxygen to the blood stream by regulating red-cell production and thus it can improve the athlete's record in a sports event. Imagine a runner improving his speed in a 20-minute
272 Der Spiegel 48/2005, p."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "The notion that existing companies will benefit from the Internet revolution is belied by the stories of ebay, ETrade.com, Amazon.com, and other upstarts, which did not even exist before the early 1990s. Still more new companies will appear in the future, in the United States and abroad, and these will compete with the companies in which we invest today. Simply put, the effect of new technology on existing companies could go either way: it could boost or depress their profits."- Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
 "Sure, you could post that box of random computer cables on ebay, but your time is frankly better spent doing other things. All you really care about is keeping those cables from ending up in a landfill. If someone is willing to show up and take them away, even if they use just one, the result is still a reduction in waste. Furthermore, if they use just that one cable, then sell the rest on ebay for a profit, all the better for them. Anything to keep the cables from the landfill. This is a stellar example of win-win thinking."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "In an unprecedented recycling initiative, Intel and ebay joined with leading technology companies, government agencies, and environmental groups to help pave the way for consumers and businesses to safely dispose of unwanted electronics. In September 2005, mailers went out to 3.2 million New York City households announcing the city's most ambitious personal computer, television, and cell phone recycling drive to date. Intel and Best Buy Co. both supported the drive, which ran on weekends in October.11 www.intel."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "That might entail selling unwanted or unused items at online auction sites such as tvww.ebay.com or electronic marketplaces like http://craigslist.org. The key in both instances will be to do it as soon as possible, before everyone else is trying to do the same. Other revenue-generating options, including moonlighting at a second job or starting a home-based business that requires little in the way of overhead, should also be seriously considered."- Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) |
 "The early inflexible plastics such as Bakelite and Galalith have been reincarnated into a second existence as popular and lucrative ebay collectibles,25 but in their art deco heyday the hard, inflexible plastics served a utilitarian purpose. Elasticity is not always advantageous—one does not want a hair comb with the consistency of a rubber band. But elasticity or flexibility is ctitical at other times. The forward progress of the plastic industry seemed to hit a wall when it came to engineering synthetic elasticity."- Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.) |
 "If the cutting-edge technical and creative talent had been inclined toward software and "e-tailing" a few years before, now the hipsters were in pharma, screw all that ebay action. At the ultrahip Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, once known for its auto and product design department, one of the hottest new fields was . . . pharmaceutical graphics. In the world of exhibit development (as in museum and educational exhibits), pharma had become a major new source of money to some of the hottest young design shops."- Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) |
| "Bay" for the stuff we no longer want.
The premise is simple: you join a "freecycling" e-mail listserv for your local community, on which people proffer the things they might otherwise take to the dump, give to charity, or simply leave on the curb. At last count, there were hundreds of such lists set up, in communities large and small.
The Internet is terrific at making markets more efficient, and there is indeed a market for many things we would otherwise throw away. Sure, you could post that box of random computer cables on ebay, but your time is frankly better spent doing other things." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Furthermore, if they use just that one cable, then sell the rest on ebay for a profit, all the better for them. Anything to keep the cables from the landfill. This is a stellar example of win-win thinking. AZ Choice Fatigue According to happiness researchers (yes, there are experts who measure happiness), we are less happy than we used to be. There are a number of well-studied and well-documented reasons for this, and a few obvious ones (famine, poverty, disease, and war, anyone?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "Look for them on ebay, Amazon.com, or www.moodjewelry.com. Use Google to shop the Web for dozens of other options.
We love the Bio-Q Thermal Biofeedback and Stress Monitoring Ring because it provides a more sophisticated and elegant measure of skin temperature. For more information, visit www.futurehealth.org.
If a ring isn't your thing, you can buy a little liquid crystal "chip" that is smaller than a postage stamp. It sticks to your skin and changes color just like a ring.
Cost: From $1 to $5 and all the way up to about $25 for the Bio-Q."- Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) |
| "Here are some more tools for performing inspirational acts of green patriotism:
?At ebay.com, search under "recycled" and you will find pages and pages of items, including wood flooring and colorful scarves hand knit with recycled silk.
?You can file your treasured pictures or CDs in boxes made from recycled newspaper for only $14.99 to 19.99 at www.containerstore.com.
?Find a stool made from renewable water hyacinth at Pier 1 for $78.
?Plant a memory tree. Fill your local park with a memory in honor of someone dear in your life." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "On the other hand, Beanies with PVC pellets are considered rare and are more valuable on ebay (which is especially true for the Princess Beanie Baby with PVC pellets).9 (So let me understand this: A little girl holds Princess Beanie Baby with PVC pellets close to her breast. PVC causes breast cancer in animal and human studies, and PVC residues or metabolites [which are by-products of the original compound] are absorbed from consumer products like the Beanie Baby, possibly by little girl who is in love with her Beanie." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "The most successful large Internet firm was ebay, launched in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar (b. 1968). An Internet auction house that brings sellers and buyers together in cyberspace, ebay adapted the auction concept to the Internet and has experienced rapid revenue and profit growth. In the process, it created a trading economy of $20 billion a year."- The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
| "To educate consumers and businesses about options for disposing of unwanted computers, the Rethink Initiative coalition created a Web site (www.ebay.com/rethink) that includes information on how to safely sell, recycle, or donate used computers.
At Freedom Press, we've made some important breakthroughs, too. Our new computers come with lead-free motherboards and contain voltage regulators that reduce the actual power the machine requires to run.
Just in your home, there is so much you can do for free, and that is easy to do. I just got up and turned down our water heater to approximately 120?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
| "An Internet auction house that brings sellers and buyers together in cyberspace, ebay adapted the auction concept to the Internet and has experienced rapid revenue and profit growth. In the process, it created a trading economy of $20 billion a year.
In what has been called the "dot-com boom" of the 1990s, thousands of entrepreneurs opened Web sites offering a staggering array of goods and services; significant venture capital flowed into these companies, and their stock prices climbed to astronomical heights. Then came the "dot-com bust." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
 "They even used Web-based businesses such as Google and ebay, and they assumed that some of the bright young dudes in black outfits and stylish eyeglasses behind the public offerings would be the next Bill Gates or Larry Ellison. Hundreds of other ventures were capitalized and geared up, and a stunning percentage of them failed. The diminishing returns of overinvestment had struck again. Entropy expressed itself in the form of mass delusion."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
| "Bay enables users to buy and sell items through automated online auctions. It was one of the few Internet businesses to show revenues and profit from day one; in 2002 ebay was host to more than $14 billion in auction transactions.
The Dot-com Explosion—and Implosion During the late 1990s the promise of Internet riches inspired an investment boom heretofore unknown in U.S. and global markets. Each week saw IPOs from dozens of so-called dot-com companies, offering all manner of goods and services online." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
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