I just wanted to write a quick post to say thank you and attaboy to our electricity provider, Reliant Energy. I received an email titled “Reliant e-sense summary” and opened it to find a very useful electricity usage chart. The chart instantly shows us the last seven days of electricity usage in Kilo Watt Hours [...]

Insulated glazing, also know as double glazing to the layman, oh where to begin? Well let’s start with the definition shall we? The Double Glazing term relates from double to tripled paned glass windows separated by an air or other gas filled space to reduce heat transfer. Pretty groovy, huh? Insulated Glass Units (IGUs) are [...]

We recently found an excellent online source for LED light bulbs, SuperBrightLEDs.com. The company is based in St. Louis, Missouri and their internet bulb ordering site has a huge variety of LED lights ranging from home, auto, RV, security and accent lighting all the way through to industrial LED light products! We had been searching [...]

The PowerSupersite has just published a very insightful infographic showing power consumption facts for the USA. The statistics show that over the course of a year the US actually uses more electricity than Japan or China topping the list at 4.40 Trillion kwh, however Canadians use more electricity per day than Americans, the stats show [...]

10 ways to make your home a much greener place to be. Practical tips and advice you can all follow easily.

June has been very hot so far here in Texas, triple digit days and very warm nights, so it seemed only fitting that we track the energy usage of an item that helps keep our food and drinks cool, the refrigerator… We plugged in our trusty P3 Kill-A-Watt Wireless unit and started watching the numbers [...]

For the month of June we decided to monitor how much electricity is used by our television. We used the awesome P3 Kill-A-Watt Wireless to track how much electricity was being consumed by our TV over a three day period. A typical day of television watching in our household consists of a couple of hours [...]

Computers can be a big energy waster and energy drain on the system but they needn’t be.There are many things you can do — both before purchase, while in use, and after they’ve given up their respective plastic and electronic “ghosts”! Americans produce more than 5 billion, yes billion, pounds of computer waste annually. According [...]

The rush for renewable energy has had a big impact on the home hot water boiler industry but it has started to adapt quite quickly to the modern day advances in house heating systems. Over the last 40 years the gas boiler central heating systems have become the major heating systems for both the American [...]

The amount and type of energy you use in your home is one of the biggest factors used to determine your carbon footprint. Luckily, switching from traditional energy to renewable energy at home is not only effective at cutting that footprint, it’s also incredibly easy. While it used to be the only way to use [...]

Currently, 50% of all energy consumed is used for heating and hot water – rising to 75% in the case of domestic households’ energy consumption. The UK is therefore committed to delivering its share of the EU target for 20% of energy to be generated from renewable sources by 2020, with the UK’s renewable energy [...]

You may have tried LED light bulbs in your home and found them to be too expensive or perhaps you thought the white light was too cold or harsh? The Our Everyday Earth Green Blog is proud to announce that there is now a relatively inexpensive and extremely warm white LED light bulb available. We [...]

Today a growing number of homes are looking for ways to increase their energy efficiency. Whether trying to lower their utility bills or drop themselves from the power grid completely, homeowners are looking to renewable energy to power their life. To take advantage of this movement, a number of companies have developed new products that [...]

The following video was created by the US department of energy. The video uses simple graphics to explain the science behind turning sunlight into electricity. It provides a solar panels 101 guide covering the basics of solar voltaic panels and solar cells. We have also provided a quick transcript of the video below; Transcript of [...]

There is growing pressure for every person to pull up their sleeves and do our bit to help the environment. However, when you start trying to do your bit you quickly realize that pretty much every activity you do can be made a little more ‘green’. However, there is simply no way you can address [...]

So often people tend to forget that living green is more than simply recycling and attempting to produce less waste; an essential part in the green living trend is taking steps to make your home more efficient as well. This process is essential as most of the biggest energy wasters in your home are the [...]

This month we are giving away a fabulous solar and wind power combination charging system which straps to your bicycle to provide totally green and portable power for recharging your gadgets on the move. The HYmini Deluxe pack includes a wind-powered charger plus a mini Solar Panel attachment so you can catch some rays as [...]

I haven’t posted for a long time so I felt that this weekend should be somewhat of a catchup session for my green blogging! A discussion around the coffee pot at work led me to today’s post topic, a company called Prairie Turbines was recommended to me by a colleague and after researching their products [...]

This month’s post is simply a wonderful collection of solar panel installations in everyday homes. Hopefully one day in the not too distant future we will all have wind and solar power in our homes. Number 1: A Wonderful French Home with a Huge Solar Array; images from http://www.flickr.com/photos/trebosc/ Number 2: A Small But Super [...]

Our Christmas celebrations were very much green themed this year and I received numerous green gifts! One of my favorites is the Solio Classic-i solar charger battery which my wife bought me. The Solio Classic-i has an internal Lithium Ion 1650 mAh battery which can hold a charge for up to 1 year. It has [...]