New Green Home Solutions

Green living begins at home, and New Green Home Solutions tells you how. Most of the energy-derived pollution we produce comes as a direct result of our homes – how we heat them, how we cool them, how we keep them well-lit and full of things that make our lives so comfortable. The good news [...]

Turning a brown site green in Fairhaven, MA

Every once in a while a project comes along that everyone can support. The Town of Fairhaven, MA has just such a project. They are proposing to build a solar power plant on top of the town landfill turning a ‘brown site’ – ‘green’.
The proposed plant will generate about 500kw of energy which the town [...]

McGuire AFB and Fort Dix Military Housing Privatization Project

Green is no longer just a color in military uniforms; it is now a part of the everyday lives of our troops and their families.  Now Fort Dix/ McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, the largest military housing community in the United States is at the helm of this green revolution and keeping our [...]

Dorothy may like this kind of wind (turbine)

Leave it to the self-described home town of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz to harness the wind.
In Kansas-Smith Farms, located a few miles from Liberal Kansas (no, I did not make that up), a hog farm erected two Vestas turbines that were re-manufactured by Halus Power Systems in 2005. Each turbine has a [...]

Renewable Energy Roundup, Sept. 25-27, Fredericksburg, TX

 
Come join the 10th Annual Renewable Energy Roundup and Green Living Fair!
Over the past 10 years, this community and family oriented Green Living Fair has grown to be the largest “green show” in the South. It occurs at the end of September, every year, in historic Fredericksburg, Texas. You can see the latest in eco-friendly [...]

Rating Home-made/DIY Renewable Energy Solutions

This is the first in a three part series looking at renewable energy products for the home.
In just the past six to twelve months the number of home made/do-it-yourself (DIY) renewable energy solutions has increased dramatically. And a growing number of innovative, low-cost  renewable energy solutions are available online at Amazon.com, as well as retail [...]

Greenpeace challenges President Obama to be a leader on global warming

“A monument’s dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. We are not here trying to carve an epic … but rather the constructive and dramatic moments or crises in our amazing history.” Gutzon Borglum, designer-sculptor of Mt. Rushmore.

Unique among our national monuments, Mount Rushmore is dedicated not to one [...]

Energy Independence at Charlies Kitchen

Charlies Kitchen has been an icon in Harvard Square for more than 50 years.
Now, before anyone knee jerks to thinking that a Cambridge, MA eatery next to the premiere institution of higher education is pompous, posh and expensive, Charlies offers a $4 cheeseburger with fries (bacon is extra), and a cold draft beer for $5 [...]

Boston-based Build Baby Build a hit, in San Francisco!

Boston-based blog Build Baby Build has hit the mainstream, in the Bay Area. The green blog focused on promoting distributed generation and building a nation of ‘energy locavores’ was a top 10 reader contributed blog on SFGate, the online property of the San Francisco Chronicle.  In a June 1, 2009 email, Johanna Hoadley, Senior Project [...]

Prospecting for Jobs at AWEA’s Wind Power Conference 2009

On a recent job prospecting trip, I attended the American Wind Energy Association’s Wind Power 2009 Conference held in Chicago. The conference, which was marketed as the world’s largest wind energy conference, set lofty expectations when it rented out the massive McCormick Convention Center to well over 1200 exhibitors representing every stage of the industry. [...]