The winter weather is upon us. January and February tend to be the worst months for most people. Old Man Winter shows his furry during the Winter Season, and many are left with the bills to prove he was here. There is a way to keep your family comfortable, and to ensure that your bills are within a manageable range this season. Here are some tips for staying warm and not breaking the bank. (more…)
My trip to New Bedford, MA the other day to visit a client was my first time in this charming little fishing village, which, 150 years ago, was the whaling capital of the U.S.
I got up early and walked around, taking pictures wherever I went. I thought readers might enjoy this one that I used for one of our 2GreenEnergy Instagram posts.
Here’s a little discussion on Facebook, based on this video:
A lady writes: Cool idea to put the kids to work…. now we just need a storage battery! (more…)
I thought readers might be interested in my “notes to self” from the ARPA-E show the other day:
A representative from Électricité de France (logo pictured) says that the company is going full bore with EPRs (European pressurized water reactors). (more…)
The annual Department of Energy “ARPA-E” show (Advanced Research Projects Administration-Energy) ranks among the very best events of the year for us here in the U.S. who are interested in the forward progress of cleantech, and for several reasons:
1) It makes us proud to be Americans, a phenomenon that doesn’t happen every day of the week. (more…)
Holistic Management is a farming method that combines social, environmental and economic objectives. It is a “less is more” approach which encourages farmers to farm on smaller surfaces, with fewer synthetic fertilizers or herbicides and lower expenses on equipment, while increasing their soil health, financial profits, and quality of life. This revolutionary approach, with a successful track record, is gathering an increasing number of advocates. (more…)
Over the weekend we learned that all 30 hardliners will lose their seats to reformists in the Iranian government based on elections held late last week. This puts a smile on the face of every decent person on the planet.
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Today is the birthday of French novelist Victor Hugo, whose work in the 19th Century presented us with depths of human passion that no one had even imagined possible in his time. He is perhaps equally well known for leaving us with this: “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.” (more…)
Hello from New Bedford, Massachussets; it really is wonderful to be in such an authentic fishing village.
Over breakfast I noticed an article in the Wall Street Journal to the effect that retail sales really were terrible last December, resulting in huge losses and the demise of hundreds of store locations (including 18 Kohl’s outlets) across the U.S. (more…)
Not all news in the solar PV world is good, as my colleague Craig Ruark (pictured) notes in this column on Nevada’s energy markets.
This whole thing goes back to the notion of the utility death spiral (i.e., people leave the grid, prices go up for everyone remaining, driving more people to leave the grid), which is exacerbated by rooftop solar and net metering. The phenomenon underlines the imperative to rethink our entire relationship with our power distributors.
