Prison Pedal Vision Saving Energy and Helping Inmates Loose Weight
Share Sheriff Joe is notorious for his tuff rules and pink shirts but is this Arizona prison on to something? This might be a great idea for people to install in their homes to save money and loose weight. I can already envision an informercial for this thing! Moreover I think Sheriff Joe watched one of the Team Green Videos we did for Microsoft Hohm to get this idea =) . Read More
How Can Social Technologies Help the Environment?
Share Working on some post for Microsoft Hohm and flying to San Francisco for the web 2.0 conference, I’ve been plagued with the thought this morning on how social technologies can better support the green movement. This thought process came about when I’ was posting an article from Planet Green about the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and how your can individuals can help with this 30 mile oil slick. All of the ways to help are kind of clunky and old... 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
100 Companies Going Green
Share Biofuel & Agriculture Amyris Biotechnologies Aurora Biofuels Evolutionary Genomics Genomatica Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. KiOR LanzaTech LS9 Mendel Biotechnology Performance Plants QterosSegetis SG Biofuels Synthetic Genomics Clean Energy (not solar or biofuel) Bloom Energy CoaLogix exro Technologies FloDesign GreatPoint Energy Hyperion Power Generation Luca Technologies Nordic Windpower Oorja Potter Drilling Rive Technology TerraPower Clean... Read More
The Three Waves of Environmentalism
Share The First Wave: Conservation Starting in the 19th century, environmentalists worked to identify, protect and extend those parts of our land that needed to be kept intact for future generations and for our current civic health. They worked mainly with governments, and via NGOs such as the Nature Conservancy, to establish the parks, refuges and preserves we treasure today. Over time the vision of this first wave has expanded from saving single... Read More
Top Green Workout Tips
Share Stay homeThere’s a reason Jane Fonda made a fortune from those exercise videos: working out athome is easy and convenient. Plenty ofroutines—like weight training, yoga, or Pilates—require nothing more than a mat and some room to lunge or squat, so it’s possible to put together a cardio and strength training combination that you can do while watching Friends before dinner. Get outsideMore intense cardio-like running, biking,... Read More
The Green Revolution – Why now?
Share Most Americans have no idea where their power and utilities come from. We’ve been blessed with the ability (for those that pay their bills) to turn on the lights with a flip of the switch. However to transfer this amount of power to your home, neighborhood, city, county and state is a massive undertaking, and frankly it’s being questioned if it’s a sustainable model, or in other words, it’s not working anymore. There are 6 colliding... Read More
Microsoft Hohm and Fargo
Share Recently I was able to head up to North Dakota to do interviews with a variety of people in the town. This video was just used in the announcement for the Microsoft Hohm partnership with Excel Energy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-rIgzIFTs&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Read More
Solar Energy – Installing Solar Panels
ShareHere’s another video that I created recently for Microsoft Hohm. In this video I met up with Jeremy owner of Puget Sound Energy. During our conversation he goes through some great points about solar energy. I do have some B-side tape with some other great talking points but where out of the spectrum for use with Hohm. If you would like to see the B-side tapes leave a comment and I’ll put something together. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtVt-6Kbmvg&hl=en&fs=1&] Read More
