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Archive for January 2006

January 30th, 2006

Solar Powered Address Lights

Here’s a surefire way to ensure that the pizza delivery guy doesn’t get confused and give your precious pie and cheesesticks to the neighbors by mistake. And it’s unplugged too. Now that’s a win, win!
The Solar Powered Address Lights unit features 4-inch tall digits that are highly visible both day and night. […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 2 comments

January 29th, 2006

Announcing My OffBeatHomes Blog

I know, I just did this same thing only three weeks ago, but please excuse me as I pimp myself to you once again. The fine folks of b5media, who own this site, have provided me with yet another opportunity to rant and rave about one of my passions.
This new one is about homes, […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 1 comment

January 27th, 2006

Solar Powered Airship

Is it a bird? An airplane? A giant flying dildo? No, sorry…it’s just a 26 foot long Solar Powered Airship! And according to the web site, you’ll be completely amazed with this totally incredible device.
Basically, it’s big black balloon-like apparatus. There’s an ‘envelope’ on one end which you run around […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 0 comments

January 27th, 2006

America’s Top 25 Green Power Buyers

The US Environmental Protection Agency released its most recent Green Power Top 25 List earlier this week. Among the highlights was the news that renewable energy use within the EPA’s 600-member strong set of ‘partner’ organizations had almost doubled to over four million megawatt-hours for the year of 2005.
The US Air Force retained the […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 0 comments

January 25th, 2006

NewsFlash - Solar Powered Stuff Needs Sunlight

An enlightened plan by city officials in Cheektowaga, New York (just outside Buffalo) to line their thoroughfares with solar-powered street lights hasn’t quite worked out as planned. Apparently, when the region experienced a recent record setting spell of sunless days - 13 in a row - those fancy solar-powered street lights didn’t work as […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 0 comments

January 24th, 2006

Solar Powered ‘glow brick’ Night Light

This is cool! Generate Design of Montreal, Canada are the folks behind this neat little device, the glow brick night light.

Quite simply, it’s a light bulb encased within a clear solid plastic brick. The light bulb features a ‘glowing center’ that charges itself from natural light through the day and then auto-magically glows […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 1 comment

January 24th, 2006

A Blogathon for Greenies

Shea of Musings of an Eco-Entrepreneur and Jeff of sustainablog are teaming up to spearhead a Green Blogathon that will be open to all bloggers of the eco and sustainable blogospheres.
Shea launched his Eco-Entrepreneur blog last November with a blogathon and Jeff did his own ‘Blogging Round the Clock‘ last July, so they’re pro’s at […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 1 comment

January 20th, 2006

New Jersey’s Sun Farm Network

I want a company like this in Ontario! I’m talking about the Sun Farm Network, an organization that has seen the light, shall we say, and has begun offering an innovative solar program for folks in New Jersey. It’s a full turnkey solution for residential clients that is intended to make solar power […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 2 comments

January 20th, 2006

The Basics of Geothermal

The temperature of the soil several feet beneath our feet and under our homes remains fairly consistent throughout the year, even when the atmospheric temperatures above ground fluctuate considerably. This consistency in underground temperature can provide an excellent resource for heating one’s home in winter and cooling it in the summer and it is […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 1 comment

January 18th, 2006

Garden Glo Solar Powered Planters

These are neat! (at least I think so) Translucent resin planters - 21″ diameter by 20″ high - that are illuminated from within by 6 LED bulbs and powered by sunny goodness.
Distributed by Patio Lighting Concepts in the US, the Garden Glo planters come with a separated ’solar control unit’ mounted on to a […]

By Kevin Humphrey -- 0 comments

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