By Kriss Bergethon
New innovations in the solar power industry are making solar more affordable than ever. Now nearly anyone can afford a small startup kit that will allow homeowners and business owners to start producing renewable energy and add more panels as their budget allows in the future.
Out With The Old
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Paradigm shifts require that we start educating our youth on the advantages and importance of green living. Educating our children is getting easier with new media and technology. This super-cool toy teaches the science behind fuel cells in an easy-to-understand way.
Your kids (or you) can put together a car powered by water (via [...]
Continue Reading →Just when we thought Google was diversified as much as they could be, they break into another market. As is normal for Google, they did it with a BANG!
Last year, Google announced they were developing solar technology that would make solar energy cheaper than coal. Don’t even get me started on the “cleanliness” [...]
Continue Reading →Perfect for remote sites (read: camp, fishing trip, rural areas), the Eolic foldable wind turbine is a great solution for small scale energy needs. This is not for the permanent installation, but for those who need mobile power. I ask, how soon will micro-wind and micro-hydro be the norm for remote areas?
Is it [...]
Continue Reading →By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
(reposted with permission)
Some people live off the grid, eat local food, and have an energy footprint so minuscule that even the canniest hunter couldn’t track them down. But the rest of us buy from supermarkets, get our energy from at least in part from traditional [...]
Continue Reading →Now that we’ve got your attention… we really do think you shouldn’t buy a hybrid. Not because we’re ignorant or stubborn, but because it is a waste both environmentally and economically to purchase a new hybrid vehicle when you’ve got a perfectly good vehicle in the driveway.
Now you see where we’re coming from. [...]
Continue Reading →We all know LED’s are better than regular bulbs due to their longer life, smaller energy consumption, less maintenance requirements and brighter light. As municipalities start switching over to the more energy efficient technology, we are seeing a lot of benefits. But road maintenance workers across the country have run into another problem [...]
Continue Reading →Hippie Magazine reports on eco-innovations. Eco Innovations are products, gadgets, inventions, etc. that have been developed to address the ever-increasing threat of climate change. Although some may never make it to the hands of consumers, they are still innovations with the right intention.
Here is one such eco-innovation: vehicle shocks that generate electricity. As [...]
Continue Reading →These are one of the most viable options for quick, easy, cheap and dependable renewable energy. Scientists have developed balloons coated with solar panels that could generate significant amounts of energy without much risk or maintenance. We have the technology, the resources and the infrastructure to place these balloons anywhere. Since they only require an [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s some cool eco-news for you. You can now charge your electric car in New York. Admittedly, the concept is wonderful… charging your electric car with solar power. In a re-purposed shipping container no less! The problem is, I don’t have an electric car and chances are, neither do you. Building the infrastructure to support [...]
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