When remodeling your bathroom, you may be focused on improving the aesthetic look of the space. For example, you may update the tile back splash around the tub and in the shower. Perhaps you will replace the counter top and …
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From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: How Making Your Bathroom "Green" Can Make Your Home More Energy Efficient
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How Much Energy Is Needed To Produce Solar Panels?
What’s the carbon footprint of solar panels? Do they need more energy to produce than what they would produce in their entire life? Readers who aren’t familiar with the website Quora.com should check it out. Linked above is a really …
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Pope Francis: Not a Bad Advocate
Here’s a conversation I just had with my sister-in-law (Kim) that I thought I’d publish: Kim: Nice to have Pope Francis as an advocate! Maybe you could interview him for your next book! Make it a great day. 🙂 Craig: …
Lots of Good News in the Renewable Energy Space
Here’s a post that’s strictly about the pic I’ve used (left). It’s a screen shot from the sidebar of GreenTechMedia.com as it exists right this minute (probably won’t last). But just look at these headlines (and Google them if you …
Locally Generated Energy…. And Automobile Design?
Distributed generation is a big deal when we contemplate the future of energy, as it provides so many benefits, e.g., no transmission costs and voltage drops, reduced reliance on coal, less bureaucracy, local jobs, facilitation of smart-grid technologies, and integration …
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Two Viewpoints on Politics and Economics
Frequent contributor MarcoPolo who comments on my post about Annie Leonard (pictured) and her concern about our “robo-consumer” society: The “consume less,” ”back to nature”, reductionist philosophy, is usually accompanied by a covert loathing of mankind, disingenuously presented as a …
Pope Hits Hard on Climate Change in Encyclical "Laudato Si’’
A reader notes: I haven’t yet read the 178 page text of Laudato Si, but I’ve read a great deal of highlights… This is a watershed moment. It could change everything. It could also spell the end of the Republican …
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Concept in “Small Wind”
I’ve been having a discussion with an inventor of a product in the “small wind” energy space (i.e., anything under 100KW) whose website is linked above. He had asked my advice about his concept, which is summarized as follows: The …
What About Wearable Solar PV?
Frequent commenter and senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes about an earlier post on wearable solar PV (see picture on left featuring the obligatory pretty girl). He notes: (This) is likely a fad that will contribute absolutely nothing to the …
Will a Solar PV Tree Offer Advantages?
The reader who asked earlier about wearable solar PV clarifies: I agree with you that the direction for these threads for wearable power generation is a dead end or at least a very low power, niche market. My thought has …
