Since we’d marked the calendar and set an alarm, we were ready this year for Earth Hour 2009. We turned off all the lights outside the house. We shut down the laptops, router, printer, UPS, and electronics and then turned off the lights, fan, and everything else. All we left on were the appliances (furnace, […]
Last year we turned off all our lights and the computers and everything we could find in the house except some appliances. We cranked up our wind-up radio and our wind-up LED Camp light and some candles and listened to music and read. It wasn’t as quiet as the time when a hurricane blew through […]
Today it was in the mid-30’s and it snowed a bit. It melted as soon as it touched the ground and later turned to rain. But, cold and rain means it felt even colder. What makes it weird is that just two days ago on Wednesday the temp was near 80 and I was outside […]
I’ve known about the problems of wind energy and the current power grid for quite a while. I found this article on The Energy Challenge — Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid Limits in the New York Times (you’ll need to login to read it). To clearly state the problem. In part: The grid today, […]
March came in like a lion. There’s an old saying I knew as a child: March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. Hopefully, that means that the end of March will quietly meld into April. But, I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Meanwhile, I got a new coffee […]
Shortly after the New Year and before we took down our tree, this cardinal showed up on our deck. He’d arrive shortly after sun up each day. He’d spend some time looking in the sliding glass doors, hopping to the left and right and turning his head. Personally, I think the only thing he could […]
I came across this interesting article on EarthFirst and followed the link to a similar announcement on WorldChanging. Basically, the city of Oslo, Norway is going to start running their buses on biomethane. The WorldChanging article says: In Oslo, air pollution from public and private transport has increased by approximately 10% since 2000, contributing to […]
I don’t know about you but I’m always interested in new gadgets that will be better for the environment and greener to use. I’d never heard of this contest before but it’s their second year. The people at Core77: We invited designers to explore the concept of “Greener Gadgets.” Designs sought to minimize the environmental […]