Tomorrow I plan to take my daughter and one of her friends to a green home improvement show in San Luis Obispo, a charming little rural community a bit north of here. In addition to product demos, there are lectures …
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From Guest Blogger Tom Demers: Sustainable Roof Replacement Options
Since they get the brunt of the sun, snow and rain, roofs will need to be changed after a number of years. While there are plenty of materials out there for a new roof, most of them are not sustainable. …
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A Zeitgeist of Eco-friendliness: The New Living Large Is Living Small
Frequent commenter John F. Robbins writes a post on the 2GreenEnergy Facebook page re: my announcement that I’ll soon be interviewing sustainable design guru Sim Van der Ryn: When I led a group called Alternate Energy Assn (AEA) in SW Ohio in the late 1990s, we …
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Sim Van der Ryn: Legend in Sustainable Design
I was delighted when Sim Van der Ryn returned my call yesterday and generously consented to grant me an interview when I’m up north at the end of the month. Four decades before the word “sustainability” had become a buzzword, …
From Guest-Blogger Kelly: Eco-friendly Furniture
A keyword, which tends to have a consistent impact upon our lives today, is indeed ‘Environment’. Not only has it become a topic of extreme contemporary relevance but it has also begun to invade the genres of our regular lives! …
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LifeCube: On-demand Emergency Shelter
Here’s a product we support that may at first blush seem a bit far afield from 2GreenEnergy’s normal business arena: LifeCube. It’s on-demand emergency shelter for disaster response. In less than five minutes after arriving on the scene, a two-man …
How to Increase the Energy Efficiency of Existing Structures – and WHY
Noted environmentalist and energy expert Bruce Severance will join me for December’s webinar: How to Increase the Energy Efficiency of Existing Structures – and WHY. Now, if that title carries with it a certain feeling of mystery, that’s not an …
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Check Out IndoTeak — Beautiful and Green Products from Indonesia
Attending the Opportunity Green conference in Los Angeles yesterday gave me the opportunity to meet some terrific people and get aquainted with some incredible business concepts. Check out IndoTeak, a company that turns out wonderful, attractive, super high-quality products made …
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Cutting-Edge Consumer Product Conserves Huge Quantities of Water
The response to my request for more cleantech business plans has taken me to some fantastically interesting places, as I knew it would. Here’s Smarter Flush, a consumer product I really love. For $19.95 and an investment of 10 minutes …
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Stimulus Funding Continues to Help Homeowners Cut Energy Costs, Lower Environmental Impact
A significant part of the stimulus money from the Department of Energy has enabled homeowners to perform extremely cost-effective retrofits for energy efficiency. A lovely and articulate spokesperson from Energy Upgrade California I met at the AltCarExpo in Santa Monica …
