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Blog /// Uncle Sam Goes Green
August 2, 2010 by Greg Lindsay for Fast Company
By now you’ve heard plenty about smarter cities and even a “decade of smart,” but what about a smarter courthouse? Or a smarter federal building? Despite the flurry of deals signed by cities and even non-profits with the likes of IBM and Cisco (which announced a new pilot project around Akron, Ohio this week), the biggest score in the smarter sweepstakes is a government agency you’ve likely never heard of, the General Services Administration, and its real estate arm, the Public Buildings Service.Tags: fast company, building, green, energy, president obama, behavior
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Blog /// Change in the Wash
July 27, 2010 by Andrea Bennett
Could you live without your clothes dryer? How about washing your clothes in cold water and drying them on a rack? Seventh Generation, the maker of nontoxic laundry and household products, is challenging people to do both this summer. Certainly saving the energy is a responsible thing to do: According to the US Department of Energy, about 90 percent of the energy used for washing clothes in a conventional top-load washer goes toward heating the water.Tags: laundry, conservation, energy, money
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Report /// The California Experiment
May 4, 2010 by Ronald Brownstein for The Atlantic
AMID ALL THE starpower assembled in the White House Rose Garden on a crystalline afternoon last May, the unassuming gray-haired woman who sat beaming in a prime first-row seat went largely unnoticed. But if not for California state Senator Fran Pavley, none of the other people who had gathered might have been there at all. In 2002, as a first-term member of the California Assembly, she had steered through the nation’s first law requiring automakers to reduce the tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases linked to global warming.Tags: the atlantic, energy, economy, environmentalism, law, cars, government, utilities, california, politics
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Film /// TED Talk: Catherine Mohr
May 2, 2010
Catherine Mohr works on surgical robots and robotic surgical procedures, using robots to make surgery safer. In a short, funny, data-packed talk, she walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house — looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter most? Not the ones you think.Tags: construction, energy, recycling, ted
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Blog /// Should Wasting Energy Be Illegal?
July 24, 2008 by Kathy McManus
Cold air is a hot topic. Especially in summer. ‘Tis the season for cranking up the air conditioning, as shops and stores across the country blast arctic air out their front doors, wide open, non stop.
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