Are you planning on getting your property renovated? Have you thought about all the garbage and trash that will be generated while you refurbish your home? It can be a lot depending on how much you plan to refurbish. (more…)
Despite common wisdom, artfully pairing wine with food has been a big deal in Western Civilization for hundreds of years. There are those who say that French food, as wonderful as it may be on its own, or served, God forbid, with wines from hell, was developed largely to showcase those of the region, particularly those of Bordeaux. (more…)
I must come across as the Ebeneezer Scrooge when it comes to reviewing cleantech business concepts on behalf of the investor community, insofar as I almost uniformly scoff at them (or worse). But here’s what’s actually going on:
• For every good idea in this space, there are hundreds of bad ones, i.e., concepts that have zero practical potential to improve the quality of our environment. (more…)
One would think that having a garden is eco-friendly by default, but not all gardens are equally “green.” Excess water use, improper trash removal, planting foreign plant cultures, and so on, are just some of the many ways that people are hurting the environment with their gardens. (more…)
Every day, we make decisions that impact our environment — whether we are eating, washing our clothes, or driving to work. Fortunately, there are many options available for our daily personal needs that are healthy for us, and the earth. (more…)
(WASHINGTON, DC) “You know what electrons are, right? They make this thing called electricity, and that can be bad stuff…like lightning strikes and power outages,” said U.S. President Donald Trump as he signed into effect an executive order that will convert the U.S. electrical grid from alternating to direct current over the next five years, at a cost experts put at roughly $35 trillion, or approximately twice the GDP. (more…)
According to recent reports, green and eco-friendly homes tend to sell for more than others. Let’s review the hard numbers on eco-friendly home sales and discuss the trends that result in green homes selling faster and for more than their counterparts.
The Hard Numbers (more…)
For many travelers, finding safe and familiar food to eat is often a challenge, especially in destinations where the food culture is different from home. If you’re a vegan, the challenge is even bigger, but it’s certainly possible to find a way around it. Even in the most remote destinations, you can still find something vegan. (more…)
As shown at left and discussed in this article from Bloomberg, Germany’s massive installation of wind (on top of its solar) has, for the first time, pushed its electricity generation from renewable sources above that of coal and nuclear.
As we enter this time of festivity, let’s celebrate our accomplishments of the past, i.e., the enormous contributions that fossil fuels have made to our society, while welcoming in the glories of the future, as we move to new forms of clean energy, so as to prevent climate catastrophe. (more…)
I’d like you to ask yourself this quick question, and answer it as honestly as you can: Do you think we’ll still have a civilization here on Earth, in any meaningful sense of the world, in 100 years? (more…)
