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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
