Now that Thanksgiving is past, many of us are prepping our house for the holidays. I talked to my mom this morning and she was out and about looking for new Christmas decorations. Over at my place we have already strung up the Christmas lights and started hanging winter wonderland decorations. Going green with Christmas lights is pretty importance for us because it all... Read More
Have you ever thought about the different things that you can do to go green during the big Turkey day holiday of the year? I have. There are ways that you can use normal pans instead of disposable ones to go green on Thanksgiving. You can also heat up many different dishes all at once on Thanksgiving to save electricity. And you can make sure that you wash out all of your... Read More
Thursday is Thanksgiving and it looks as though we'll be able to do all our Thanksgiving Day dinner in our solar ovens, which is a great way to save the environment and cook really delicious food. Between my sister and I, we have five solar ovens and use them quite often to cook and bake all our food. In fact, people who are interested in going green who have a sunny yard... Read More
At a universal level, most of us share a common tool of transportation in some form or another that emits carbon emissions. I’m not an extremist or think everyone needs to put their gas guzzlers up for sale to start riding bicycles around but there are a few things we each can do to help cut back on some of these emissions. Swapping a standard air filter with a short ram... Read More
China may be one of the largest polluters in the plant after some extreme modernization over the past couple decades but they are just as quickly setting up infrastructure to help save the environment. I was reading a couple recent articles talking about China’s push towards solar panels and free (to the government) electricity with wind power. There is even word one of... Read More
The reality is here: Global Warming is REAL! Science has finally proven beyond any doubts that our world is heating up, the icebergs are melting and the world is changing. But there are ways that I am learning about how I can do my part to stave off the effects of Global Warming. First and foremost, I have been changing the ways that I live. Like using more energy efficient... Read More
I have been thinking of more and more ways that I can be part of the worldwide Going Green efforts this coming holiday season. For starters, my family is Going Green by turning down our heating thermostats a few degrees to burn less energy. Secondly, our Going Green efforts will be bringing the recycling bin in during the present opening process so that no paper is wasted... Read More
We still have a couple more months before another season of the tax man comes around. Until then I am working hard to collect write offs and prepare everything so come January I am ready to get my finances in order. I was talking to my mom about her new Energy Star rated air conditioning unit she installed a few months ago. She has lived in her Arizona house for a solid... Read More
I recently had a new high efficiency gas furnace and air conditioner system installed in my home. One reason I opted to spend the eight grand for this particular system is with the installation of a combined units like these I am now eligible for a fifteen hundred dollars in energy tax rebates from the Federal Government. I guess they look at this as Going green and... Read More
Like any other morning, I started it off by catching up with the news. Today I read a interesting and exciting MSNBC article titled Solar power goes underground. This had me scratching my head probably as you are right now. My immediate question was how solar panels could work out of the sun’s line of sight. Wanting to know more I read the entire article and was left feeling... Read More
I was catching up on the news today when I came across a I was catching up on the news today when I came across a New York Times article called EPW Dems End-Run Boycotting GOP, Vote 11-1 for Climate Bill. The gist of the article was that Senate passed a Climate bill that will now move to the floor which as I understand it will provide more money to create greener ways of... Read More
I live in an area of Southern California where saving the environment is a pretty big deal. California in general is a state that leads the country in going green. I even heard a stat that the Pacific Palisades, Malibu area has the most per capita Toyota Priuses in the country from my friend’s grandparents. I believe it because they have one and it’s hard not to see at... Read More
Solar thermal energy is one of the best ways of harvesting sunshine and turning it into power. There is a huge solar thermal energy production center just south of Las Vegas, Nevada that I've driven by many times. It's quite impressive and it's nice to see companies setting up these facilities around the country. When public or private utilities start going green, we hope... Read More
My brother calls me the other day to gloat about how much free electricity that he got last year. He installed some solar panels onto the roof of his home, and has been counting how much money he has saved using free electricity versus the cost of the electricity that he had been paying for annually prior. He was able to figure it out by looking at his electric bill over... Read More
Possibly one of the longest running technologies to transform America into a clean energy economy has been solar panels. This is not a new technology but a fairly expensive one that has hit cost speed bumps over the decades, pushing it out of the minds of many homeowners and power plants looking at all the different energy options. There are always those few who see going... Read More
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