Category: Efficiency

When President Biden took office, he developed a sustainability-driven policy aimed at minimizing ecological harm. The Build Back Better plan highlights a national carbon-neutrality goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Support for the project involves developing a clean electric grid. …

Installing Solar Panels? Here’s Why You Should Hold Off on Battery Storage Read More »

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Using hydrogen as a fuel source may bring back unpleasant memories of the Hindenberg Disaster in 1937, but our technology has evolved quite a bit since then. Today, hydrogen fuel cells are self-contained, emit water and oxygen as their only …

From Guest Blogger Jane Marsh: The Role of Fuel Cell Technology in Disaster Recovery Read More »

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Good news for the city of Detroit: The streetlights may soon come back on. Towards the end of 2012, only around half of the approximately 88,000 street lamps in the city were functioning. (To put that number in perspective, there are around …

From a Guest Blogger: Street Lights Get an Eco-Friendly Upgrade Read More »

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Represented at left is a big part of what’s wrong with our international food system. I don’t want to eat pears that have travelled 20,000 miles to get to my grocery store. Btw, I love Trader Joes, though I seldom …

Global Food System: An Exercise in Energy Waste Read More »

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Living your life as green as possible is obviously good for the planet, but there are so many ways that a green lifestyle improves your wellbeing. Choosing to make your home green has all sorts of benefits, and you don’t …

From Guest Blogger Sonya Harris: These Green Renovations Will Improve Your Home’s Efficiency Read More »

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According to this article in GreenTech Media, California is readying what could be the next game-changing update to its building-performance standards. Every three years since 1980 , the California Energy Commission reviews its building-performance standards, known as Title 24, with …

All-Electric New Construction: You Won’t Be Able To Say “Now You’re Cookin’ with Gas” Read More »

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Here’s a cool thing. She may be stuck at home in social isolation, but watch Buffy slay several different sorts of wasted energy within her own four walls.

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This conversation about lightbulb efficiencies was going on long before I came onto the environmental sustainable scene, and I’ve never understood the issue with mandating energy-savings technologies.  The only theory that could possible explain it goes like this: Somewhere in …

The Discussion on Lightbulb Efficiencies Will Not Cease Read More »

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As much as I love summer, I welcome the winter with open arms as it is that cozy time of year when my family and I can enjoy some quality time indoors and snuggle up with a warm cup of …

From Guest Blogger Mattea Jacobs: How to Beat the Winter Cold in Your Home by Keeping Things Energy Efficient Read More »

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Here’s what the largest European cities are doing to reduce the impact of automotive transportation, and it’s having some extremely positive impacts. Great stuff. What would you like to see in your city?  

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