Get your Hohm Score and compare your energy consumption with 60 million US homes
Share Today we had a really exciting launch at Hohm today revealing a new site design and the ability to compare your home to 60 million others across the country. Simply by entering an address, you’ll get a personalized page that’s filled with information on that home. This page includes the Hohm Score for that home, an estimate of how much that home could be saving annually on energy, a comparison chart that shows how this home’s energy... Read More
You don’t get a second chance in athletics but….
Share We all things that we wish there was an opportunity for a second chance and second chances is what this video is all about. This is a great example how a creative idea with a little bit of humor can take a message (even an old one) out to a large audience on the web. Sitting at 100K views on youtube this video shows how low cost videos can still make an impact if they have a cleaver idea behind them. Read More
Could Microsoft New Zip Code Announcement Outpace Google Powermeter?
Share The Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine posted articles on how Boulder, CO, a relatively progressive environmental city, is trying to stop their citizens from being armchair activists. “Since 2006, Boulder has subsidized about 750 home energy audits. Even after the subsidy, the audits cost each homeowner up to $200, so only the most committed signed up. Still, follow-up surveys found half didn’t implement even the simplest recommendations,... Read More
Green Holiday Tips
Share Make Your Own Wrapping Paper Most mass-produced wrapping paper you find in stores is not recyclable and ends up in landfills. Instead, here’s a great chance to get creative! Wrap presents with old maps, the comics section ofa newspaper, or children’s artwork. Or use a scarf, attractive dish towel, bandana, or some other useful cloth item. If every family wrapped just three gifts this way, it would save enough paper to cover 45,000... Read More
Social Networks To Help You Go Green
Share A slew of social networking tools put people on the same page to reach sustainability goals. CarbonRally approaches the effort of saving the planet with sportsmanship by inviting users to team up to rack up points for reducing emissions. Make Me Sustainable also aims to help groups green their habits. Care2 has been around so long that it often gets left off of lists of the latest, greatest and greenest sites, but it’s one of the largest... Read More
Plastic Containers Buying Guide
Share What To Look For: Plastics are classified by their “resin identification code”—a number from #1 to #7 that represents a different type of resin. That number is usually imprinted on the bottom of your container; flip it upside down, and you’ll see a recycling triangle with the number in the middle. Here’s a quick breakdown of plastic resin types: #1 polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE) Examples: Disposable soft drink... Read More
I Don’t Want To Go green!
Share Go Green! Has become one of the biggest buzzwords in business, school, and frankly just about every industry and institution in the world. For myself it’s daily that I find something on the web, TV, or radio telling the world that we’re destroying our environment, wasting natural resources, and that global warming is at the tipping point of no return. Honestly, most of these advertisements are right but there are those occasional ‘greenwashing’... Read More
