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wind energy on the cheap?
Imagine you could go to Home Depot and for a few hundred dollars purchase an appliance that plugs in like a blender and generates a chunk of the energy your home needs, renewable and emissions-free.
Once a pioneer at Real Networks in Seattle, Chad Maglaque invented the Jelly Fish wind turbine–It’s a 36-inch-tall rooftop wind [...]
Hey Dallas…After Last Week Who Wants A Generator?
So there we were last week…cold, snow, wind and then darkness! There were 1000’s of us that lost power last week and let’s face it there is NOTHING enjoyable about being without power! We were all out looking for a near by hotel where we could keep warm for the night or bunking up with [...]
Net Metering Pays Green
As a new member of the Dallas Green Building Alliance, I was picked to start off our weekly blogs for the month of February. Sunday morning rolled around and my blog was due Tuesday, so I was starting to sweat it! Well as I was sitting at my breakfast table, drinking a cup of coffee [...]
Some of the “coolest” houses on the planet….literally!
Today I'm kicking of a series of some of the "coolest" green building projects on this planet. The DGBA Green Building Video Collection.
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Wasting Energy In Your Sleep?
Did you know that over 5% of the energy usage in your home each year is consumed by electronics that you assume are turned off when not in use? The US spends over $5.8 million dollars a year on something called “phantom power”, and growing at a rapid pace. That is an estimated 65 billion [...]
Sharp introduces nine new LED lamps for home use
Photo: Sharp
Energy-efficient lighting without compromises is on the mind of every green builder & remodeler – and finding products and solutions is not always easy and hardly ever fits in any lighting budget. Well, Sharp just introduced a great new product and will hopefully introduce it to the US market soon.
Sharp just introduced nine models [...]
