The venerable Consumer Reports has launched a new web site called Greener Choices. It’s a free guide offering reliable and practical advice on how to be a more eco-friendly consumer.
GreenerChoices.org offers info on a broad range of products, from electronics and appliances, to autos and food. The site includes information on large scale […]
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 […]
Greetings and salutations! Welcome to the 10th edition of the Carnival of the Green, the blog carnival for the green and sustainable blogosphere, brought to you by the fine folks at City Hippy and Triple Pundit.
Before we start the tour of eco-happenings from the last week, lets give a hand to our last host, […]
Shea Gunther, the Eco-Entrepreneur, is hosting this week’s edition of the Carnival of the Green, edition #9 and to be found here.
A couple of posts that stood out for me were…
City Hippy Al’s highlighting of the Sustainable Energy in Motion Bike Tours put on by PortlandPeace.org. These are really cool cycling vacations where one […]
One of the most important steps in making the move to renewable energy resources or even just saving yourself some money by cutting back is to figure out what you’re using now. Once you know that, you’ll know what you can do without and the more you can do without, the less you’ll have […]
A couple of quick and simple tricks for keeping your hot water hot and saving some energy while you’re at it is to insulate your hot water heater and your hot water pipes.
A water heater insulation blanket will reduce the amount of heat escaping from the tank, help keep the water in the tank hot […]
Jeff at sustainablog points out today’s Guardian in the UK which features an overview of the funding programs that are available to schools in Great Britian for the installation of renewable energy systems. In addition to the list of schemes available, the Guardian also provides a page detailing some of the schools that have […]
Kathy Dahl-Bredine, who lives in southern Mexico, has come up with a rather simple way to make a portable solar oven. Take a $3 reflective car windshield sunshade, sew some Velcro tabs along one edge, then fold the shade into a funnel shape. Viola!
Here’s the list of needed materials…
A reflective accordion-folding car sunshade […]
Energy conservation and energy efficiency initiatives are an area that could still use a lot more attention in the pursuit of reducing our power dependencies, both in our personal lives and in our society’s commercial endeavours. John Makower put together an excellent list last week profiling his 30 or so favorite energy-efficiency resources for […]
The Sierra Club put out a quick numbers-crunch study last week entitled, By The Numbers - America’s Energy Supply and Demand, that I found a little interesting.
Among the numbers put forth that drew my attention, were the rises of crude oil prices vs gas prices over the last year. If you play with the […]
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