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 [...]

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 [...]

This post will be the first of many where we track our everyday energy usage using the fabulous P3 Kill-A-Watt Wireless electricity usage monitor. The first item that I chose to track was an obvious choice for someone who grew up in Britain, the electric kettle! I drink copious amounts of tea and my trusty [...]

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 [...]

Efficient washing machines are a huge help to most of us. The traditional washers can use up to 40 gallons of water and unlimited amounts of energy. In addition to this, most of us don’t know how to really conserve energy when using laundry appliances. On the other hand, using efficient washers may not be [...]

Most of our readers are here in the USA but we also have a strong following in many other countries, this guest article is mainly for the benefit of our UK readers; Whilst the hot water heater boiler scrappage scheme in England has now ended it has resulted in a large amount of people swapping [...]

With business gas and electricity costs going up, going green is not only environmentally responsible, but it saves money as well! Doing your laundry uses loads of energy and can pollute the environment, so wouldn’t it be great if you could make doing the laundry “greener”? Well, you can! Here are seven tips to help [...]

There are ways to reduce your power bill without necessarily your way of life. Reducing power consumption is simply a question of knowledge and of applying a few simple principles. You need to understand just where energy tends to get wasted in an average home and to safeguard against such wastage. Adjust your home’s thermostat [...]

Sustainability in its truest form is the capacity to endure. With ongoing debates surrounding climate change and green energy the focus of building new and redeveloping existing homes has shifted towards how to become more sustainable.  You don’t have to be a die-hard green fanatic to create a sustainable home, and deep down, everyone wants [...]

While using ecologically-friendly products around the house and eliminating unnecessary waste are often targeted as prime ways to become more green, rarely does the topic of clothing arise. From the ways the fabrics are dyed and treated, to the intensive shipping process most clothing endures to get into your hands, purchasing a new pair of [...]

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 [...]

It’s that time of year again when the Christmas tree lights come out of storage and houses all across America are aglow with festive decorative lighting. This year with advances in LED lighting I wondered how much energy could be saved using LED decorating. **Note: This post sparked some debate so I have edited it [...]

We experienced a family crisis late last week, everything in our house started to break, our happy infrastructure was literally falling apart. First to quit on us was our fridge water dispenser, closely followed by the ice maker, then our clothes dryer decided to stop drying! We easily managed without the ice maker and water [...]

The annual WFAA Project Green Summit is coming to Fort Worth’s Bass Performance Hall on September 15th 2009. The event will open at 11AM and will showcase green and eco-friendly ideas and lunch will be provided by the Reata Restaurant (one of my favorite Ft. Worth restaurants!) WFAA’s Project Green Summit will feature popular actress and environmentalist [...]

I was just surfing on the net looking for random facts about the 3-R’s, (recycle, reuse, reduce), when I came across some information that I found to be amazing, at least to me. 1 ton of un-coated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees 1 ton of 100% virgin (non-recycled) newsprint uses 12 [...]