On my piece: “Good Ideas in Clean Energy Are Actually Quite Rare,” longtime 2GreenEnergy supporter “BreathOnTheWind” notes:
We seem to expect renewable resources to be a plug and play replacement for fossil fuels. On the contrary, renewable energy gathers energy from and depends upon the local environment and our current age. (more…)
The most conscientious among us are determined to treat our world the way it deserves and adopt an eco-friendly attitude. This approach applies especially to the front lines of greenery that are within our domain, the gardens we landscape to increase curb appeal. Here are some ideas to maximize that environmentally benign style of living. (more…)
It’s safe to say that a lot of people in society are starting to become more sensitive towards their environmental footprint. While not every has jumped on the “save the Earth” bandwagon, a lot of people who wouldn’t have been recycling just a few years ago now are. (more…)
We all want to improve our green credentials and one of the key ways we can do this is by preventing items, which still have valuable life, ending up in landfill. We are moving away from being a throwaway society and instead embracing values which make for more eco-friendly living. (more…)
In response to my piece: Government Subsidies for the Energy Industry in the U.S., senior energy analyst Glenn Doty makes these points which I’ve greatly abbreviated; I encourage readers to click on the link and read the whole enchilada. (more…)
I’m a huge fan of Annie Leonard (pictured) and her wonderful project “The Story of Stuff”; it has successfully communicated the follies of our robo-consumer society to many millions of people around the world in an elegant and charming way. I had the pleasure of listening to her speak a couple of years ago, and we had a nice chat after she left the stage. (more…)
Think motorized blinds, think electricity. Think electricity, don’t think green. This is the equation that has been drilled into most of us although surprisingly, it doesn’t always have to happen like this.
Let’s start with an introduction to motorized blinds. (more…)
The concept of the “negawatt” has been in our vocabulary for several decades now; I believe it was the creation of environmental scientist Amory Lovins (pictured). The idea is simply that the cheapest and most environmentally friendly kilowatt-hour of electricity is the one we don’t generate in the first place. (more…)
It’s certainly not a new idea that human beings, Americans in particular, tend to have short attention spans and are easily “issue-fatigued.” This is exacerbated by the corporate media which, in its quest for ratings (equivalent to dollars), crank up new stories, normally about trivial garbage, at a pace calculated to lead the typical American consumer along by the nose.
