In 2006, as oil prices spiked and people began having trouble meeting their heating costs, one ‘tinkerer’ started looking at alternatives. Edward A. Pratt ended up creating a solar-powered solution reports The Berkshire Eagle. Pratt, who refers to himself as a “tinkerer,” began experimenting with the idea of a self-contained, portable, energy-efficient heating device. After […]
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Amazon.com is trying to take the guilt out of online shipping with its patent for “Environmentally conscious electronic transactions” reports Fast Company. The patent, granted earlier this week, explains that Amazon hopes to offer both carbon credits and environmentally friendly shipping options. The catch? You have to wait longer–and pay more–for your packages. An environmentally
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A popular slogan and bumper sticker says that stuff happens. It couldn’t be more right; however, when stuff happens to your home there is 911 Restoration to help. They provide “water damage repair, sewage backup cleanup, mold testing & removal, fire damage restoration and professional assistance on environmental clean-up jobs.” For over 30 years they
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Even as scientists and environmentalists fret over the continued melting of Greenland’s glaciers, at least one person has seen an opportunity for money to be made, reports Digital Journal. Iluliaq Original Water is melted glacier water, and is the brainchild of Julien Caquineau, who has spent three years in Greenland developing the idea. It comes
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The peace of an otherwise quiet summer weekend is often muddled by the sound of lawn mowers and leaf blowers. NPR reports that In Los Angeles’ business district, an old-fashioned method of ground control provides an alternative soundtrack – the munching of goats. In a steep hillside city park on Bunker Hill, right next to
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Andrea Parrish and Peter Geyer — aka the “Wedding Can Couple” — say they’ve reached their goal of recycling 400,000 aluminum cans to pay for their July 31 nuptials. Parrish told Green House that she figured recycling cans would be an eco-friendly way to fund their $3,800 DIY wedding. She set up a website and
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Telegraph.co.uk: By painting the mountains, Eduardo Gold hopes to replicate the effect of Andean glaciers, which reflect back sunlight and hence heat back through the atmosphere. The technique is scientifically plausible and, according to some scientists, may be the only method of lowering global temperatures in a crisis. “A white surface reflects the sun’s rays
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Founder and president Sarah Beatty bills Green Depot as the country’s largest green building supplier, with 10 showrooms and 20 warehouses across the Northeast. She says the fast-growing business isn’t expanding merely for the sake of growth, but to make sustainable building products accessible and affordable so they can be easily adopted in standard construction.
According to The New York Times, Rick Siegel would be in his clothes closet, running late, wrestling with the plastic bags that encased – and the twist ties that entangled – his dry cleaning. Surely, he thought, those twist ties would drive him mad. A trip to the closet made Jennie Nigrosh’s stomach clench: Where
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In 2008, as the market for home energy management systems grew, Nielsen Van Duijn and Carsten Steenberg founded Powerhouse Dynamics to commercialize a monitor they had developed as a side project. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that their system, which connects to a home’s circuit breaker, allows homeowners to track where and when they consume the most
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