Every few days, we learn about the end of another government program that, for years, has served to protect the environment, save consumers money, preserve our health and safety. What type of life will be available to Americans after another …
Category: Efficiency
President Trump, Can’t You Do Something to HELP Us?
Americans of all stripes are still trying to find something that the U.S. president has done to improve life for the common person. Not sure that eliminating a program that has helped U.S. citizens save on our energy bills qualifies …
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Installing Solar Panels? Here’s Why You Should Hold Off on Battery Storage
When President Biden took office, he developed a sustainability-driven policy aimed at minimizing ecological harm. The Build Back Better plan highlights a national carbon-neutrality goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Support for the project involves developing a clean electric grid. …
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From Guest Blogger Jane Marsh: The Role of Fuel Cell Technology in Disaster Recovery
Using hydrogen as a fuel source may bring back unpleasant memories of the Hindenberg Disaster in 1937, but our technology has evolved quite a bit since then. Today, hydrogen fuel cells are self-contained, emit water and oxygen as their only …
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From a Guest Blogger: Street Lights Get an Eco-Friendly Upgrade
Good news for the city of Detroit: The streetlights may soon come back on. Towards the end of 2012, only around half of the approximately 88,000 street lamps in the city were functioning. (To put that number in perspective, there are around …
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Global Food System: An Exercise in Energy Waste
Represented at left is a big part of what’s wrong with our international food system. I don’t want to eat pears that have travelled 20,000 miles to get to my grocery store. Btw, I love Trader Joes, though I seldom …
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From Guest Blogger Sonya Harris: These Green Renovations Will Improve Your Home’s Efficiency
Living your life as green as possible is obviously good for the planet, but there are so many ways that a green lifestyle improves your wellbeing. Choosing to make your home green has all sorts of benefits, and you don’t …
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All-Electric New Construction: You Won’t Be Able To Say “Now You’re Cookin’ with Gas”
According to this article in GreenTech Media, California is readying what could be the next game-changing update to its building-performance standards. Every three years since 1980 , the California Energy Commission reviews its building-performance standards, known as Title 24, with …
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Buffy the Energy Vampire Slayer
Here’s a cool thing. She may be stuck at home in social isolation, but watch Buffy slay several different sorts of wasted energy within her own four walls.
The Discussion on Lightbulb Efficiencies Will Not Cease
This conversation about lightbulb efficiencies was going on long before I came onto the environmental sustainable scene, and I’ve never understood the issue with mandating energy-savings technologies. The only theory that could possible explain it goes like this: Somewhere in …
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