Posts Tagged ‘energy’

Philippe Starck’s Designer Plastic Wind Turbine

By Wesley Joseph • Aug 7th, 2008 • Category: Household, Products and Shopping, Recent Posts, Recycling, Technology

Can you have a wind turbine for about the price of a new computer? The answer might just blow you away (pun intended)!



Download Energy-Saving Software (Free, for Your PC)

By Wesley Joseph • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Business, Household, Recent Posts, Recycling, Resource Waste Reduction, Technology, Uncategorized

How can you reduce your computing energy consumption, extend the life of your computer, and save up to $100 per year?



Pickens Plan for Natural Gas and Wind Power

By Wesley Joseph • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Climate Change, Energy, Pollution, Recent Posts, Transportation

Heard yet about (oilman) T. Boone Pickens’ plan? It might just be the practical key to unlocking our dependence on oil. Yeah, from an oilman… Eyebrows raised yet? How about that Honda Civic GX?



Removing the Fossil Fuel Blinders

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 30th, 2008 • Category: Business, Climate Change, Energy, News and Media, Politics, Pollution, Recent Posts, Technology, Transportation

Getting past the lies about fossil fuels. It’s a complicated topic so let’s try to get some facts straight.



Cirque du Vert :: Volume 1 - July 25, 2008

By Matthew Philip • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Energy, Gardening, Health, News and Media, Recent Posts, Transportation

Check out our first edition of Cirque du Vert :: Circus of the Green! Highlights include: A 100 MPG SUV, Get Rid of Ants without Pesticides, Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy, and Coal vs. Wind in the Appalachian Mountains



Renewable Realists, Remain Vigilant

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Climate Change, Energy, Politics, Recent Posts, Technology

Our energy independence faces a “not-so-harsh reality” and has the opportunity to embark on its most ambitious mission since vowing to land a man on the moon.



Al Gore Challenges U.S. to Change to Carbon-Free Energy in Ten Years

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 17th, 2008 • Category: Climate Change, Energy, Politics, Recent Posts, Uncategorized

Gore moves the debate toward using 100% renewable power sources in ten years.



$4.00 per Gallon Gas: The Environment, Economy, and You

By Matthew Philip • Jun 29th, 2008 • Category: Energy, Recent Posts, Transportation

Fuel prices are at all-time highs and gasoline in the U.S. is over $4.00 per gallon. Find out what’s driving prices higher and why they’re probably here to stay. Also, what do these prices mean for you, the economy, and the environment? Read the whole story inside!



EHI Quick Tip: Stock that Fridge and Freezer!

By Wesley Joseph • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Household, Recent Posts, Resource Waste Reduction

I am sure that most of you heard it from time to time from your parents while growing up: “close that refrigerator door.”  I heard just about anytime that I was checking out the snack variety and trying to make a choice.
Sure, I could have and should have gotten an idea for what was available [...]



Greener Under Twenty: Use Rechargeable Batteries

By Wesley Joseph • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Household, Recycling

Sure, more and more electronics have built-in batteries, charged with a multitude of chargers with distinct prongs, so that most of us now have a collection of tangled charger wires laying around at any available outlet. It seems that for the most part, no two chargers are alike.
But we still use plenty of devices that [...]