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Environment & Energy

OilemFirchen

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23. 420-some square feet.

Reply to truebluegreen (Reply #22)

Mon Feb 24, 2014, 07:55 PM

Feb 2014

But that's not the point, is it? He could have purchased a small house in Queens or on Long Island. He could have found real estate in New Jersey. His home could be solar-powered, with a pellet stove and a yard in which he could grow veggies and herbs.

And compost.

He could also have sold his website to an environmentally active group instead of a huge entertainment concern. Maybe for a million bucks instead of ten. But hey... guy's gotta make a living, amiright?

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