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…)
There are lots of things in this world that have ceased to function properly, most notably a U.S. government of, by, and for the people. But there are still aspects of our culture that always come through, like the way nature takes its course when stupid people make asinine remarks, are subject to public ridicule, and, on a good day, lose their credibility.
Here’s a great example, where Texas Senator John Cornyn (pictured) tweets that snow in the Sahara is evidence that global warming is a hoax. He rightfully got his head handed to him. Hooray for this sociological system of checks and balances, and the enhanced speed with which it works by virtue of social media.
Hate to say I told you so, but it looks like solar roads (i.e., roads paved with solar PV), are not going to get off the ground (pun intended). Of course, the experiment described in this article in Northwestern France, which boasts only 44 days per year of full sun, probably never should have been attempted.
The ideal places for solar are those with plenty of sun (obviously), where it can be installed easily and inexpensively, on ground that has virtually no other use. (more…)
