What's Your Carbon Footprint? Sustainability and Green IT Initiatives That Make a Difference  - Notes Southwest Regional Conference (2009) Closing general session Podcast available at http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/WhatsYourCarbonFootprintS/48287 Moderator: Ann Kovalchick,  Deputy CI...

Having been sidelined for the last week and a half with my van having the electrical problem from hell, which turned out to be the alternator after all, I had some time on my hands. From Green by Design comes: When Less Is More: Overhauling the Appraisal System which is a look at how houses are appr...

Eco Factor: Chandelier and fan combo, with energy saving technology. This two-in-one delighting combination of lighting and fan mechanisms, “Fan-tastic Chandeliers,” is the latest design introduced by Meyda Lighting. This customizable fixture with a diameter of 44 inches and a height of ...

Nellie’s Dryer Balls Gaiam.com $18. Amazon.com $15.50 These dryer balls may lower your dryer’s energy use by reducing drying time by up to 25%. They also state it will soften many fabrics naturally by lifting and separating fabric to make it softer, and should decrease the amount of the ...

Here are some things I have bookmarked recently. Clean Technica has a great site. Here are a few recent things. Mini Nuclear Power Plants For Your Neighborhood In Five Years Becoming a utility in your neighborhood. World’s Largest CIGS Thin-Film Solar Array Goes Live CIGS, or copper indium gallium...

Living in Arizona makes Solar power generation semi attractive. The biggest stumbling blocks are price, and efficiency. The lads at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed and demonstrated a new coating that captures 96% of the solar energy. Up from the 66% on its best day for current solar ...

It's hard to open a weekend newspaper or Stumble across the web with coming across eco tips. Fit a Hippo! Compost your food! Seal your draughts! goes the advice. Even though they're relatively simple though, just seeing these tips in......

Compact Fluorescent Lights are the darlings of the energy and wanna be green set. They also present dangers beyond the few pennies you save. The bulb makers and the greenmailers are telling you to replace every bulb in your house with these 'marvels', so you won't be one of those profligate energy h...

Earth Day is only eight days away, so we contacted our friends at Ideal Bite to see if they had some tips to share. For those of you who aren’t familiar with them, Ideal Bite offers light green living tips for real people who lead busy lives and want to make small changes that add up to big re...

Attitude: So most of us know how to operate our systems and put it in the hibernate mode so as to make sure it reduces energy consumption. That is pretty safe to assume as otherwise probably you would not be checking out this site. But LocalCooling is a nice addition to your system and it actually h...