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Today everybody is talking about green cleaning. This is a process that involves using eco-friendly ingredients for the preparation of cleaning products. If you want to keep fresh water clean and toxic-free, you need to consider green cleaning. The benefits …

From Guest Blogger Paula Sheamus: Green Clean — What are the Benefits? Read More »

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In this day and age, as we consider climate change, global warming, and other scientific phenomenon, we’re all looking for ways to help reduce our carbon footprint. For homeowners, one of the easiest ways to help reduce their carbon footprint, …

From Guest Blogger James Denton: Spray Foam Insulation — FAQs Read More »

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Today’s “word of the day” on dictionary.com is “misology” — a new one on me; it means “distrust or hatred of reason or reasoning,” as in: In this way misology, the hatred of reason, arises. Socrates now confronts misology “because …

Our Lack of Interest in Sustainability Read More »

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I’m delighted to announce that a razor-sharp graduate student at USC, Nikita Rao, will be joining us at 2GreenEnergy as an intern.  Her master’s program focused on the electric power industry, a topic that I know we’d all like to …

Welcome to Nikita Rao, Author on the Electric Power Industry Read More »

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Taking my own advice and “following the money,” I note that Bill Gates is investing in a start-up whose product is utility-scale energy storage.  We are not far from the robust expansion of renewable energy, propelled by this solution (“aqueous …

Bill Gates and Energy Storage Read More »

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I just sent an email to a young man who claims to have discovered and harnessed a new form of energy here on Earth.  Of course, I’m skeptical, but he’s a terrific fellow and I’m willing to sign a non-disclosure …

No Sources of Renewable Energy Are To Be Found in Force Fields Read More »

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I write often about humankind’s tendency towards specialization, i.e., how most of the R&D work aimed at innovation in today’s world is performed by people with extremely narrow (though intensely refined) skill-sets.  I suppose it can be argued that this …

Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life, and Sustainability Read More »

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In the last century, power resources were largely fossil fuels.  However, in the modern era, we seek to combine the convenience found in elevating technology with maintaining minimal to no harm done to the planet and its natural resources.  

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Green architecture planning is the act of outlining plans for buildings that reduce the human carbon footprint of the building as well as the people who will occupy it. Construction is designed to maximize the use of natural resources both …

From Guest Blogger Addison: What is Green Architecture? Read More »

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I have to laugh when I read some of these guest blog posts.  Apparently some are good and helpful; in other cases, that really can’t be the case.  I just cut ties with one blogger whose list of “facts” about …

Fact-Checking in Environmental Reporting Read More »

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