If embraced, solar cooking has the potential for providing a meaningful Silver BB in the fight to mitigate climate change, in the struggle to reduce health damage from polluting cooking (such as wood or coal burning in inadequately vented homes), and aiding economic strengthening for some of the world’s poorest people (reducing costs (both monetary [...]
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Solar Cooking at the Farmers Market
June 7th, 2010 · Comments Off
Tags: Energy · eco-friendly · energy smart · environmental · green
Feedback systems and ECSTASY
May 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment
As any who regularly read my work should be aware, I have a fascination with the power of feedback systems to foster behavioral change (and here and …) and help foster more Energy Smart practices and to hasten the adoption of Energy Smart/Energy COOL technologies. This guest post by Milly Watt (which, in this context, [...]
Tags: Energy · electricity · energy cool · energy smart
Energy Smart Tom speaks directly, talks tough …
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments
Representative Tom Perriello (D-VA-5) was one of the first candidates to make the Energy Smart list. Today, not for the first time, he provided a clear statement as to why he merited and continues to merit a prominent position in the ‘must support’ list for anyone concerned about fostering a prosperous and secure America [...]
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Energy HOME: Calculating a confusing heating situation …
January 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Today, a poll popped up:
How do you primarily heat your home / apartment?
This question gave me pause.
Sadly, for a self-proclaimed (and labeled by others) energy ‘geek’ and one who values feedback (systems) to enable better decisions/energy use patterns, I realized that I simply can’t answer this question. The problem: multiple heating systems, with multiple changes [...]
Tags: Energy · Solar Energy · energy efficiency · energy home · energy smart · solar
Energy COOL: Ecobuild brings together people focusing on solutions
December 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
While too much of the world’s attention turned to the falsehoods from climate deniers (such as Sarah Palin) about ClimateGate (Swifthack), there are people from around the world in Copenhagen seeking to find a path toward a global agreement to mitigate climate change. And, around the world, there are people striving to find and execute [...]
Tags: energy cool · energy smart · wind power
The Power of No Regrets … a reprise …
December 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Occasionally, it seems worthwhile to resurrect earlier discussions, to try to bring attention to elements that should be part of our national dialogue but which, sadly, seem not ingrained in people’s thinking. No Regrets strategic thinking looks to satisficing — how would this pan out across multiple scenarios. Considering what a No Regrets Strategy would [...]
Tags: Energy · Global Warming · clean emissions · climate change · energy smart · environmental · financial policy · politics · pollution
German Solar Rides Power Surge to a Win
October 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments
With the last moments of competition, with the last event, the
German team of Decathletes surged forward to seize the lead, seize the victory of the fourth Solar Decathlon, topping second-place Illinois (The Gable House) by less than 11 points out of 1000 possible (908.27 to 897.3).
The margin of victory came from just one event, an [...]
Tags: Energy · Solar Energy · energy efficiency · energy smart · solar · solar decathlon
Penn State’s Natural Fusion
October 6th, 2009 · 5 Comments
No, we’re not speaking about Cold Fusion, but Penn State’s entry into the DOE Solar Decathlon, which opens Friday on the Mall in Washington, DC. Let’s take a look at some of Natural Fusion’s features from its website, which is dynamic, enabling rapid connection of concepts and approaches with the home’s physical layout.
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New Study: Green Buildings generate more Green
September 25th, 2009 · 6 Comments
All too often, those engaged in examining options for “greening” a new or existing building are constrained in a stove-piped cost analysis which (in a very simplified fashion) goes something along these lines:
How much more will it cost to build?
And, how fast will energy and other operating cost (water usage/sewers, maintenance) savings pay for those [...]
Tags: Energy · analysis · architecture · building green · business practice · energy smart · environmental
Energy Bookshelf: Dummied Energy Efficiency
July 18th, 2009 · No Comments
When writing a review, the desired state is to write positive; hopefully having had an excellent experience with, then, the pleasure of sharing that with others. Sadly, not all life’s experiences are joyful.
Rik DeGunther has an empire of Energy for Dummies books. He writes well. And, it is clear that he has real knowledge. [...]
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