You can find many ways to conserve your home’s energy, creating a more positive impact on your area and the world in general, as well as lowering your bills altogether. Making sure you have that aspect of your life covered will make your life far easier. Follow the tips in this article if you want to conserve energy with greater efficiency throughout any season of the year: (more…)
Have you noticed changes in your heating and cooling costs? Do you have to keep the air cranked up for longer to bring the internal temperature down? Chances are your heating and cooling systems aren’t as efficient as they could be. Here are three ways you can improve your home’s thermal efficiency. (more…)
Most people realize that recycling is a good thing for the planet. What they may not fully understand is the tremendous benefit that recycling has for each individual on a personal, social, and economic basis. Convenience and lack of true knowledge about the resources available sometimes prevent people from committing to a recycling program. One way to encourage others to recycle is to educate them on what items are truly recyclable. (more…)
Green marketing is all about business using eco-friendly resources and production methods. Not only is green marketing beneficial for the company which incorporates it, but it is also a great way to gain favors with clients and to show that your business is the one which everyone should rely on. (more…)
Today won’t be a particularly light one for me, but it most certainly will be fulfilling.
As I’ve mentioned, for many years I’ve sat on the advisory board for the Clean Business Investment Summit, an annual event in early September during which a vetted set of cleantech entrepreneurs (not unlike ours here at 2GreenEnergy) come face-to-face with a whole slew of angel investors and VCs. (more…)
When employees get free parking, they tend to drive their cars to work; when they have to pay to park, they tend to take public transportation. That’s the (not too shocking) conclusion of a new study, according to this article published by my friends at Smart Cities.
Even though it may not be surprising, it’s noteworthy because it serves as a reminder that most people’s actions spring from the immediate impact those actions have on their own lives. (more…)
I’m thrilled that long-time 2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie has agreed to help me on my new book project (Bullish on Renewable Energy – Eleven Reasons Why Clean Energy Investors Can’t Lose). Not only does Gary’s background render him supremely well qualified to offer keen insight into the subject, but he’s from the U.K. (Buckinghamshire, to be precise — see picture), and thus tends to have a far broader perspective on the key trends in Europe and Asia than I do. (more…)
I accidentally happened across the note I wrote following one of the many hundreds of calls I made over a period of two or three months earlier this year. In my effort to research the appetite of the largest U.S. dairies for building integrated solar thermal hot water heating, I spoke with someone from Leprino Foods, apparently one of our county’s top manufacturers of cheese, a process that requires a huge amount of hot water. The note in my database read:
Receptionist at the Greeley facility insists that I physically mail something; they don’t use email. I thought about offering to send it by pony express, but if she got the joke she might not be amused, and it would violate my personal policy against being mean and condescending–even when provoked with absurd circumstances. I’m betting that a company that doesn’t use email isn’t likely to be an early adopter of solar thermal; looks like a big fat dead end here at Leprino.
I post this mainly to make the point that personal contact still works (though it certainly didn’t here). I developed a number of really good biz dev opportunities for my client (PlexiSun) simply by using the Internet and the telephone.
Biofuels have been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, due to rising oil prices and increased concern over the effects that fossil fuels have on the environment, but they are still far from being a true and viable alternative to gasoline, as the natural gas. This is largely because oil produced from plants can not generate as much energy as crude oil, and it’s usually of worse quality, as well. This has been one of the biggest hurdles for biofuels, preventing a more widespread adoption, outweighing the fact that they are much better for the environment than fossil fuels. (more…)
Fifty years ago, people weren’t hearing about the number of natural disasters that are so prevalent today. According to AccuWeather.com, a report published by the New England Journal of Medicine stated that the incidence of reported natural disasters is increasing, and the majority of them are climate related.
According to the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance, any event is considered to be a natural disaster if it kills at least 10 people, or more than 100 people are evacuated, left homeless, or injured. More unusual events are reported every year. (more…)
