Has your community set a goal to go carbon neutral? When you start planning, make commercial LED lighting a priority. LEDs aren’t just for the lamps in your living room. They can meet pretty much any lighting need your city or town has. They work in office buildings, retail developments, transit centers, hospitals, schools, factories, […]
Are you smarter than a light bulb? If you’re using ENERGY STAR certified LEDs, congratulations! You are!! You can prove it by sharing a photo of your best LED moment on Facebook or Twitter using the #LightTheMoment hashtag. #LightTheMoment If you’re not using ENERGY STAR certified LEDs, well…the light bulb might win. That may sound […]
Hurricane Harvey has wrecked gasoline refineries all along the Texas coast, sending prices at the pump soaring to a two-year high. Higher gas prices will rule at least for the next couple of weeks, and possibly longer: we’re heading into the worst of the hurricane season now, so depending on where the storms make landfall, […]
Hurricane Harvey offered a grim reminder that there are still two months left in the official hurricane season. But when hurricane season ends, there could still be tornadoes, fires, blizzards and other extreme weather events. For the next few posts, I’m going to provide lists of and links to eco friendly emergency supplies that I […]
Hurricane Harvey is not featured in Al Gore’s important new film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.” Ten years ago, when the Nobel Prize winner made “An Inconvenient Truth,” his first movie about climate change, a storm the size of Harvey was still theoretical. And there still seemed to be time to reverse the catastrophic […]
When you were learning to drive, were you taught anything about ways to save gas? Probably not. Yet transportation contributes 14% to total global greenhouse gas emissions. Fumes and air pollutants coming out of vehicle tail pipes are one of the biggest sources of smog and dirty air, too. I’d love to see driver’s ed […]
Be the hero of your house with these smart ways to save energy room-by-room. Get the link to the live interactive guide pictured here below. Trump doesn’t need to speak for you when it comes to fighting climate change. Even though he wants to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Accord, you can show […]
Stupid. Short-sighted. Ignorant. And just plain wrong. Those were the words going through my head as I watched Pres. Trump announce he wanted to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. The Accord is a voluntary agreement by every country on earth but two – Syria, and Nicaragua – to commit to reducing […]
