My friend Cameron found this interesting comment on an unrelated thread in Alternet: With all of the history, research and studies, we can’t even protect our own species and our own planet. It’s still the first day of school. (more…)
Here’s a reminder of how quickly things can change in today’s world of rapidly developing technology. Tesla has made a wholesale replacement of energy sources on American Samoa, from diesel generators that previously burned 109K gallons of dirty fuel per year that had to be shipped thousands of miles, to solar PV and battery storage. (more…)
The energy used in your home is your responsibility, whether you’re a homeowner or a renter, and there are many ways that you can make use of the renewable energy that is free, and also control how much energy is spent in your home in order to benefit your heating bills. Here are five simple energy efficiency tips that you can use to your advantage. (more…)
As we enter into the new year it’s a perfect time to look around and find ways that you can make improvements and changes around your home. For students currently enrolled in Ohio University who are working towards a degree that will land them health administration jobs, it’s an opportunity to put some of your problem solving skills to the test. (more…)
I’ve been speaking with my colleague Fritz Maffry in Kansas City a couple of times a month for the last eight years or so, and I’ve come to respect not only his strategies and tactics as a businessman in the cleantech space, but also his broader insights in this ever-growing sector. Here are a few I thought I’d share: (more…)
Predictably, the world of climate change mitigation has taken on a frightening new dimension. The Trump administration has announced that it will be taking aim at “politicized science,” the oft-spoken but never documented concept that tens of thousands of the world’s top scientists have conspired to perpetrate a hoax on our civilization, ostensibly in exchange for research grants. What’s really going on, of course, is the dismantling of environmental protection, providing corporate polluters with free reign. (more…)
My colleague Jon LeSage offers this wonderful edition of his Green Auto Digest, summing up the progress that has been made in clean transportation in 2016, and speculating as to what we may expect to see in the coming year.
Here are a couple of interesting findings: (more…)
Frequent commenter Silent Running writes this thing of beauty about the spirit of Christmas and the 2GreenEnergy community: “Christmas brings many different things and feelings to all. Your community includes and counts on your 2GreenEnergy site as an everyday blessing that allows for good exchanges of new thoughts and technologies that can bring better solutions to the world’s supply of energy, food and water, and their complex, interrelated challenges, not to mention our collective health from a reduced carbon-burning world.” (more…)
Dark office with nothing but fake lighting and small cubicles cannot really benefit us. We feel tired, closed up, depressed and can’t wait to leave the office. Also, such offices are not good for the environment since they use too much energy and are throwing money out of the window. However, there is a simple solution to all this – green offices. (more…)
I’m not sure anyone, regardless of his political stripes, expects president-elect Trump to fulfill his promises re: the environment, if only because they are so blatantly self-contradictory. To simplify a more complicated issue, it’s (obviously) impossible to take care of our oceans and skies while advocating for fossil fuels (especially coal) and dismantling our environmental regulatory system, and pulling out of the Paris Accord. (more…)
