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A set of techniques that drivers employ to get as much as 100 mpg from their hybrid cars in this year's OED Word of the Year.

The Best Links:

1. It’s The 2008 Oxford English Dictionary Word Of The Year
2. Driving Style Can Have a Big Impact on Saving Money on Gas
3. The First Few Steps to Saving Gas
4. Cops Say “Hypermiling” Often Risky, Illegal, AAA Agrees
5. Fuel economy-maximizing behaviors on Wikipedia
6. These Techniques Are Dangerous, If the Gas Prices Don’t Kill You First
7. My First Ever Experience with Hypermiling
8. Blogger Compiles Favorite Articles and Tips
9. “You have to be able to take a little peer pressure if you want to hypermile”

A refillable jug for carrying fresh beer home from the local brewery is a way to buy cheap beer without the wasteful packaging.

The Best Links:

1. Drink Beer Cheaper With a Growler
2. Beer Growlers 101
3. The Craft Beer Lifestyle
4. Get Our New Growler Kit

The green movement is threatened by too much marketing, too many choices, and real confusion about what individuals can actually do to help the environment.

The Best Links:

1. The NYT Reports On The Confused, Burned Out, Environmentalists Struggling To Do The Right Thing

An auto company in the UK plans to take £30 million to convert “tens of thousands” of luxury vehicles over to electric power.

The Best Links:

1. Who Pulled the Plug on the Electric Car? Conspiracy or Poor Performance?
2. The British Are Really Pioneering the Electric Car Movement
3. More Lustworthy Green Cars!
4. Seems Ambitious to Start with a Big Heavy 4x4….
5. Electric Range Rover unveiled, Will Cost You 125K Pounds
6. Liberty’s Endeavor Will Also Create 250 Jobs
7. An Electrically Powered Range Rover - Too Good to Be True?

Efuel 100 has developed a contraption that lets you make your own ethanol out of water, sugar, and yeast, and fill up your car at home.

The Best Links:

1. NY Times Article: “Home Brew for the Car, Not the Beer Cup”
2. “Ethanol Is the People’s Fuel”
3. The First Ever At-Home Biofuel Kit
4. Efuel 100 Is Now Taking Pre-Orders
5. MicroFueler Home Ethanol Pump Unveiled, Ready For Pre-Orders
6. Press Release: How the Micro Fueler Works
7. It’s $10k, but You Could Potentially Get Government Subsidies to Help You Out
8. The World’s First Portable, Produce-where-you-consume, Ethanol Distiller Will Cost $10K

Dissolving bodies with lye, which has been used to get rid of animal carcasses for years, is being touted as the green alternative to burial and cremation.

The Best Links:

1. Dissolving Bodies With Lye Isn’t Being Offered Yet in the US
2. Discuss: Your Ethical Feelings about Honoring Someone’s Wish to be Cremated, Buried, Or Dissolved
3. “It was like you never existed.”
4. Cremation and Burial Is Sooo Last Year
5. Dissolving Dead Bodies More Eco-Friendly Than Burial or Cremation

New York Times has a piece on the latest trend in environmentally-conscious home furnishing: furniture that disappears when you’re done with it.

The Best Links:

1. Consciously Imagining a Product’s End Use - But Does Biodegradable Mean “Green”?
2. Cradle To Cradle: A Book About the Transformation of Human Industry Through Ecologically Intelligent Design
3. Stylish Chaise Made Entirely Out of Corrugated Recycled Cardboard
4. All the Different Ways to Reuse and Recycle When It Comes to Your Home
5. Consumers Are More Interested in Having a Long-Term Relationship with Their Furniture
6. The Latest and Most Interesting Development in Green and Sustainable Living

An acronym for “Young and Wealthy but Normal” - a certain kind of person who forgoes luxury to change the world.

The Best Links:

1. Rik Wehbring Is a Good Example of a YAWN
2. YAWNS Are Useless, Dull, and No One Cares About Their Demographic
3. YAWNS Are Worth Millions, But Live Like Paupers
4. Vote with Your Dollar - Spending Money Is Like Showing Support for Socially-Conscious Companies
5. Pop-Soc Term for Well-to-Do Young People Who Are Actually Decent People
6. “The New Yuppies: They’re Back - and This Time They’re Green “
7. The New Generation of Hipsters Are Embracing Green Living