Outdoor Solar Lighting

If you don’t have outside outlets to plug in lights or if you don’t want your electricity bills to increase with new outdoor lighting, solar lights may be perfect for you. Outdoor solar lighting uses the power of the sun to run solar cells that store the power in batteries for lighting at night.
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Heat Your Pool With An Attic Fan!

News.com has an interesting story about a pool heating system from SolarAttic that uses the heat that builds up in a home’s attic to provide heat to the backyard swimming pool. It even cools off the attic a bit.

National Forests Getting Trashed

It’s a sad fact that some visitors to our national parks have no respect for nature. They leave trash behind after outings or purposely use forests as dumping grounds.   [As a side note, an interesting episode of “Dirty Jobs” with Mike Rowe showed a tire recycling company’s efforts to clean up the massive […]

Some Green Efforts Can Go Further

Yesterday, I was enjoying the last of my organic strawberries from Driscoll’s, thinking of how much better they were for me, the workers who picked them, and the environment. Then, when I went to put the plastic container in the recycling bin, I noticed it had a #6 on the bottom, indicating that I […]

Combined Heat And Power Systems To Save Energy In The Home

Combined Heat and Power (CHP), or co-generation, systems are now available for residential applications. The energy contained in a home’s heating fuel is recycled to do double duty– to meet both heating and power needs. The system significantly reduces electric bills and emission pollutants, while increasing thermal comfort in the home.
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The Big Bad Wolf Can’t Blow Down A Straw-Bale House

Straw-bale houses are indeed comprised of straw and are actually very dense and strong, even in earthquake territory. They can be built just about anywhere, as long as they are constructed properly to ward off high levels of humidity, in areas where that condition exists. Benefits of straw-bale construction are: built of […]

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