The LED trend is in full swing. LED technology continues to improve in performance, reliability, and efficiency, while simultaneously decreasing in cost throughout the lighting market. Upgrading your existing lighting to a more efficient option can potentially save you hundreds …
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From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Simple Tricks to Make Your Home More Energy Efficient
Becoming more energy-efficient is not reserved for environmental activists only. Energy efficiency can boost your cash reserves at home too. Whether you turn off the lights as you leave for work, or install solar panels, toning down your energy usage …
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From Guest Blogger Lana Hawkins: Implementing Sustainability in Your Working Space
The issue of sustainability has been quite an important topic in the last few years and it is no wonder that many people have started implementing it in every aspect of their lifestyles. All over the world we can see …
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From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: Seven Ways to Ready your Home for the Cold Winter Months
The fall is the time of the year that homeowners have to prepare their property for the cold weather. If you do not take the necessary preparations, then you may have to spend money on repairs. Here are seven ways …
From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: How You Can Run an Energy-Efficient Business with Winter on the Horizon
To save money while running a business in the winter, you must implement procedures to reduce your energy costs. For example, by contacting your local utility, you can gather great information about rebates and incentives that are available in your …
From Guest Blogger Sarah Landrum: Smart Homes, Efficiency, Breakthrough Tech for Smart Homes that Saves You Money While You Save the Planet
Progress happens in small steps. Maybe you replaced an older appliance with an energy-efficient model. You dutifully buy CFL bulbs and now you’re venturing into LEDs. When it’s time for a new car, gas mileage is at the top of …
Nuclear Advocates Are Rabidly Hostile to Renewable Energy—But Why?
To their shame, many pro-nuclear groups spend more of their resources tearing apart the wind and solar industries than promoting their own. Here’s a great example, a graph that shows that solar and wind are too expensive. But there are …
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From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: What Does Being Energy Efficient Mean?
As a homeowner, you’ve probably heard the phrase “energy efficiency” before—whether at a home department store, on the news, or from your homeowner’s association. But what exactly does this phrase mean, and how can you implement it in your own …
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E-Bikes Play a Key Role in the Future of Transportation
There are so many trends related to energy efficiency in our world today that I remain optimistic that, taken as a whole, all these factors that enable us to use less energy per capita will offset the growing population, and …
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From 2GreenEnergy Intern Fabio Porcu: The Human Aspects of a “Smart City”
Often when we talk about Smart City, the focus falls on the role of technological factors: innovations in energy efficiency, communication and information platforms, and so forth. However, this list often omits the human factor: aspirations, interests and abilities of …
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