Try an experiment with paint. Paint one side of a piece of wood with low-VOC (volatile organic compound) paint and lay it to dry somewhere in the house. Wait a day or two, paint the other side with traditional. The difference will be clear. When it comes to cleaning, however, too many of us have […]
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Green Schools Include Green Cleaning
December 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Tags: building green · environmental · green
Clean Energy Jobs Go Home: $30 Billion to put 4.5 Million to Work
December 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Clean Energy Jobs Go Home: $30 Billion to put 4.5 Million to Work This is part of a series of brief posts on ‘clean energy jobs‘ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Investing in building energy efficiency is one of the most effective […]
Tags: architecture · architecture2030 · building green · clean energy jobs · climate change · Energy · energy efficiency · government energy policy · green · LEED
Christmas Lights … scrooge or savior? (an annual refrain …)
November 30th, 2009 · Comments Off on Christmas Lights … scrooge or savior? (an annual refrain …)
Do you love those displays of Christmas (or Hannukah or Kwanza or …) lights? Are you awed by those so impassioned that they string up 1000s of lights in awesome displays worthy of a city center? I once did, pausing on cold winter nights, white clouds issuing from my mouth, enjoying being in the glow […]
Tags: Energy · energy efficiency · environmental · green · lighting · political symbols · pollution
Clean Energy Jobs Go To the Market
November 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments
This is part of a series of posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me. Clean Energy Jobs Go the Market: $4 billion year for 80,000 jobs In too many grocery stores across America, turning the aisle into a refrigerated […]
Tags: clean energy jobs · Congress · Energy · energy efficiency · government energy policy · green · politics
Change via a Green Economy: A new branch of g Green Design Center
September 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Change via a Green Economy: A new branch of g Green Design Center
“Green” is the buzzword for business, seeking to greenwash themselves into warmer customer relations and “consumer” confidence. “Green” also represents substance and represents giving people options, making it easier to do less harm to the planet while fulfilling needs for food, transport, and shelter. Expansion of the second is a Silver BB / Dust mite […]
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Lighting up the Developing World
May 8th, 2009 · 8 Comments
With ever-more attention being given to Black Carbon, ‘simple’ technology solutions like solar cookers and more efficient stoves have ever more appeal. In the same realm of ‘small’ can make a great difference, providing just a low level of lighting for the night can provide tremendous economic boosts in developing countries. Think one efficient light […]
Tags: Global Warming · green · renewable energy · Solar Energy
Michele gets dirty … Spring Planting at the White House
April 10th, 2009 · Comments Off on Michele gets dirty … Spring Planting at the White House
“The impact of Mrs Obama’s garden is growing like a weed … really driven by people’s desire to imitate the President and his wife …” Spring planting has come to the White House garden.
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Extreme Home Makeover: UK Sustainability Edition
February 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Ed Milibrand, the UK Minister for the Department of Energy and Climate Change has announced a plan to give the United Kingdom’s 27 million homes a “sustainability makeover”. This 6.5+ billion pounds/year program will operate with three core elements: A universal, street by street, house by house approach with everyone offered comprehensive and free or […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · energy smart · environmental · Global Warming · government energy policy · green
Massachusetts’ future: Blowin’ in the wind?
January 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Massachusetts’ future: Blowin’ in the wind?
Surprising, among the last energy-related actions of the Bush Administration is to set the stage for a renewable energy future for the liberal bastion of Massachusetts. One of the darker aspects of the Teddy Kennedy and RFK, Jr, legacy will be their strenuous efforts to block the Cape Wind projection. Friday, the Department of Interior […]
Tags: Energy · government energy policy · green · renewable energy · wind power
A W4 Solution: Insulate US from economic and climate devastation
January 14th, 2009 · 11 Comments
President Obama and Congress must act to stimulate the US economy with a package of win-win-win-win (W4) elements that will: Create and protect jobs throughout the nation Foster economic activity that will help, through tax revenue, pay for the stimulus Strengthen the nation’s economic prospects for the long-term, and Help address other critical challenges: notably […]
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