Via Clean Energy Lease, a short article on urban beekeeping: Buzz around town is that beekeeping is going towards a micro level. With bee health declining, competition from overseas production, and more, bee keepers are going through a challenging time. Wherever there is agriculture produced, bees have a role in pollination. Without healthy bees, agriculture […]
Read more »Via 1BOG, an interesting article on the value of solar installations from a real estate sales perspective. As the report notes: “…Once considered an eyesore by the real estate market, solar panels are apparently now becoming a hot commodity. An influential study by NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab) caught everyone’s’ attention last year when it […]
Read more »Via Celsias.com, an interesting report on the advantages of living roofs: “…Auckland, New Zealand ,like any other city heats up and becomes unbearable: it washes its storm water away quick as a flash. It keeps biodiversity knocking at its suburban doors. It doesn’t have to be this way, of course. It can harness sunshine, rain […]
Read more »Via Inhabitat.com, a brief but interesting analysis of the economics underpinning the cooling effect that white roofs have on buildings — especially air-conditioned ones — as well as their ability to drastically lower energy costs. As the article notes: Since being appointed as the Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu has been talking all about […]
Read more »Courtesy of Inhabitat.com, a report on the Ten Million Solar Roof Initiative proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in 2010 which aims to put solar panels and water heaters on 10 million American roofs by 2020. As the article notes, the recently-announced SunShot program aims to drastically drive down the cost of solar energy […]
Read more »Via the Spray Foam Insulation Community Portal (an industry site), a brief look at cool roofs: As the threat of global warming becomes widely recognized, scientists have proposed using geoengineering (manipulation of the Earths environment) to quickly respond to this threat. Most proposed geo-engineering techniques are novel and unproven. Two simple technologies that have been […]
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