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Have you looked at your energy bill lately? Felt the pain at the pump? Has solar been on your mind as a way to decrease and stabilize your business or home energy cost? You're not alone.
However, translating desire for renewable into action has for the most part been a fairly technical endeavor, fraught with labyrinthine data that only an engineer could hope to make sense of. Doing your own comparison shopping, seeing for yourself what potential your location has for generating power, and how much that will offset or replace your current utility needs has meant calling your local companies, having them come out to do an estimate or create a computer model, and then tell you what it all means.
What if you want to find out for yourself? Make your own, more informed decisions before talking with a company? Good luck.
Building a green home? Check out a new product catalogue of green building materials. Published by GreenBuilding.com[read more]
Imagine you're drunk. Toasted. No way you're driving home. Too far to walk. No cash in your pocket, and...[read more]
Blackspot is an anti label which sells contrary eco products. It's also the world's first open source brand. Anyone with a product can use the reputable label free of charge. Big names including John Fluevog are collaborating.[read more]
Tucked away in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco, among residential flats and independent coffee shops, you can find...[read more]
Ikea is to roll out solar panel technology soonish. It is investing in several start up companies to create cost efficient flat pack solar panels in a range of new eco products...[read more]
The coconut telegraph is being re-invented as locals in Papua New Guinea and islands across the south Pacific are turning to coconut oil to fuel more than just diesel vehicles.[read more]
Silver Tips, the New York gourmet tea company, has signed a deal with Carbonfund.org. The deal follows in the wake of plenty of efforts to reduce the tea company's carbon footprint. [read more]
Project Better Place is offering you a chance to make your own minifesto that explains why we should kick...[read more]
Triple Pundit first looked at the Agilewaves Resource Monitor last month in my post Knowledge is Power – Conservation...[read more]
Who hasn’t dreamed of being a rock star? Throngs of fans following your meteoric rise to stardom, listening to your...[read more]
The tagline on nvohk.com (pronounced invoke) says it’s “an eco-clothing company managed by the people who wear it.” Having officially...[read more]
A small startup based in Santa Barbara, California is testing an alternative to carbon sequestration that, in a sense (perhaps more...[read more]
biofuels making them yourself, and a new exchange bringing little oil barons to market[read more]
For the first time in 30 years an entire quarter went by without a venture-backed company going public, according to...[read more]
Organic photovoltaic cells may be the ultimate when it comes to offering off-grid, micro-power generation. Initial small-scale technology and market tests – solar chargers for mobile phones in Africa, for example - are under way as researchers at pioneering players such as Plextronics strive to boost conversion efficiencies, minimize production costs and develop markets. [read more]
Water shortage is an an increasingly important issue in cities across the nation. More than half of all urban...[read more]
Glastonbury, for those who've not been, is a massive annual music festival in the UK that encompasses 175,000 people on...[read more]
Collin Breakstone is passionate about the environment, positive change, and creating a sustainable world. He’s just the kind of guy...[read more]
Shai Agassi, founder of Project Better Place, is largely regarded as one of today's hottest eco-entrepreneurs. In less than two...[read more]
These days, "compostableware" is becoming increasingly common. Whether it's your to go box, or the lidded soup bowl, or...[read more]
UK farmers can now dump their biomass (waste or non waste in many cases) at powerplants and get handsome cash for switching to growing biomass crops. No interference with food, so that's good and brilliant schemes, so it seems. [read more]
c2c is rocking the place out here in the Neths. [read more]
Transitioning to a smart grid entails developing new ways and means to distribute and manage not only the supply, but the demand for electrical power, and that means bringing together systems, organizations and people that have up to now worked in separate “silos”. That’s a mission and a challenge organizations such as Lonmark International have taken on.[read more]
Microfinance, the practice of making very small loans to people to support their businesses in developing countries, has been helpful...[read more]
Growing demand for its solar thin film PV is leading Greenville, Michigan’s United Solar Ovonic to expand capacity at its manufacturing plant and about double the number of employees.[read more]
Tesla has long dominated news of electric cars, with its sexy Ferrari-like styling, famous customers, and tabloid worthy behind the...[read more]
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