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Win Money for Photographing Green Vehicles!

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As the fight against global warming continues to sweep across the globe, more people are buying green vehicles to help combat harmful greenhouse gases.

But not everyone can afford the latest hybrid. If you’re like me, I do what I can afford to do while practicing an eco-lifestyle, and that includes admiring green car owners from afar since I don’t own one myself…

Yahoo! Rates Top 100 Green Cars

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Yahoo! Recently released their list of top 100 green vehicles currently on the market.

Using a system called ‘The Green Rating,’ which was developed with the help of Environmental Defense, a non-profit company dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, Yahoo! rated all types of green vehicles, from sedans and vans to SUVs and trucks…

Buy a Hybrid, Get a Tax Credit

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If you’re getting ready to buy a new car, and you don’t already know all the great advantages of owning a green vehicle, then check out this incentive: you can get up to a $3,400 income tax credit just for purchasing a hybrid.

As if the fuel-efficiency, pollution-reduction and money-saving factors of owning a hybrid weren’t already enough, now hybrid owners…

Chevy Malibu Hybrid: A Green Star with OnStar

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Last week I wrote about the Saturn VUE Green Line Hybrid SUV, which is a great green vehicle for anyone interested in buying an SUV that is more affordable and much safer for the environment than the other average models on the market. This week I discovered a smaller, greener sedan that is perfect for the everyday driver.

The 2008 Chevy Malibu Hybrid is an eco-upgrade to the original Malibu, which won the Car of the Year award at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show…

Saturn VUE Green Line Hybrid is an Affordable SUV

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For some reason Americans want everything that they own to be BIG: big houses with 12 rooms too many, big stereo systems that pump out big remixes to every song imaginable, big flat screen plasma TVs and, of course, big cars.

All of these things are bad for the environment because they either consumer too much energy or create too much waste, and they all increase your carbon footprint