Category: Environment & Alternative Energy How to be sustainable How to be Green
Greenspiration Home Earns LEED Silver Certification
Greensboro, NC – April 30, 2012 – The Greenspiration Home in Greensboro, NC has earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The private, custom-built home of Trish Holder and Mark Raines is the first LEED certified home in the Piedmont Triad region of north-central North Carolina. The home [...]
If you want a really green living space, don’t build it!
By: Richard Crume The Tiny House Project at Northwestern University in Evanston near Chicago: “a minimalist off-net house providing all the necessities of a home, and none of the frills”. The greenest square foot is the one you don’t build – this is the motto of the Tiny House Project, an undertaking by students at [...]
It’s Organic, But is it Sustainable?
By: Richard Crume When buying organic produce at our local grocery store, we expect more than just a wholesome product. We want fruits and vegetables that are chemical-free, but we also expect the produce to be grown in a sustainable matter that helps to conserve natural resources and protect biodiversity. Increasingly, this is not the case. [...]
Protect the Environment? There’s an App for that!
By: Richard Crume Regular Renewable Energy Magazine blogger, Richard Crume, is “appy” about his latest piece, which looks at a novel competition to promote the use of computer applications to protect human health and the environment: the Apps for the Environment Challenge. This past summer the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Apps for the [...]
7 Tips to Winterize Your Home to Save on Energy
Here are some thoughts on how you could lower your heating bill without freezing your way through the winter
12 Tips to Save Kilowatts and Cash
Consumer Savings Expert, Andrea Woroch gives us tips on how to reduce kilowatt usage, save energy & money.
How to Protect Our Oceans The Importance of Clean Energy : Hands Across The Sand
Raising awareness of protecting our oceans and the importantance of clean energy.
Hands Across The Sand is Coming to Your Beach or City June 25th, 2011
Hands Across The Sand Hands Across the Sand is a movement made of people of all walks of life and crosses political affiliations and the borders of the world. This movement is not about politics — it is about the protection of our coastal economies, oceans, marine wildlife and fisheries. The accidents that continue to [...]
Kari Whitman: From Boulder, Colorado to Eco-friendly Interior Designer for the Stars
Kari Whitman grew up in Boulder, Colo. and was instilled with a natural appreciation for the environment and outdoors, these values come through in her eco-friendly interior designs for A-list homes and events.
The Hubble Space Telescope: America’s Window to the Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope will long be remembered as an icon of NASA’s space program and a tribute to the scientists and astronauts who opened this magnificent window to the universe.
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