Wood stoves are a highly economical way to provide heat for your home if you have access to a woodlot or live in a remote or rural area. To get [ … ]
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Energy Executives Support a Greener National Energy Policy
There’s more support than ever before from consumers for environmentally-friendly policy. This can be seen simply from the ever-growing number of news articles about global warming to the amount of [ … ]
Home Wind Turbine a First for San Diego
Driven by his desire to go green, Tim Williams recently became the first San Diego resident to install a wind turbine at his home. The 3.4-kW Falcon turbine, a product [ … ]
Ten Commandments for Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
When it comes to chiseling our emissions profile down to a more respectable and streamlined shape, we are all aware of the usual suspects. You know — those tweakings of [ … ]
Energy Start-Up Wants to Harvest Your Body Heat
So we’ve all heard lots about the benefits of solar energy, but there’s another energy source you may have never considered harvesting: body heat. Yes, that’s right—your body could be [ … ]
My Twelve Green New Years Resolutions for 2011
Editor’s note: Seem a little early for resolutions? That was my immediate thought… but then I realized we’re a third of the way through January! Time to start thinking of [ … ]
Landfill Gas vs. Composting: is this Really the Way to Grow Renewable Energy?
Yep, we’ve had this conversation before… do landfills produce more methane than composting? Is keeping yard waste separate from other trash a smart move, or should we throw it all [ … ]
Three Cool Solar Power Competitions That Could Change Our World
It seems that we are finding a new use for solar power everyday. Whether it’s grid-tie applications*, lighting*, or backup power*, solar is rapidly becoming our green energy alternative of [ … ]
Ten Solar Gadgets for the Eco-Adventurer
Editor’s note: To move from page to page in this post, just click on the “Pages” links at the very bottom of each post. To leave “civilization” behind for more [ … ]
Biogas Production: Salvation for the Family Farm?
How many times have US urbanites taken a country drive, and on more than one occasion have had to hold our breath, when passing those farms where the farmer is [ … ]
Solar Cell Production Climbs to Another Record in 2009
By J. Matthew Roney Solar photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturers produced a record 10,700 megawatts of PV cells globally in 2009—an impressive 51-percent increase from the year before. While growth in [ … ]
Solar Leasing: An Exciting New Way to Get Solar Panels
There are many ways to go about getting solar panels on your home. Most of them involve hiring a good contractor to design and install a system on your roof. [ … ]
The Limits and Potential of Plant-Based Energy
By Lester R. Brown As oil and natural gas reserves are being depleted, the world’s attention is increasingly turning to plant-based energy sources. These include food crops, forest industry byproducts, [ … ]