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The Solar Roadways project is working to pave roads with solar panels that you can drive on. Co-founder Scott Brusaw has made some major steps since 2007. Here is the first ever video recorded of the Solar Roadways prototype! Continue reading Solar Roadways - Why not? As our family grows, we seem to accumulate a lot more stuff. Things that sit in cupboards, never to be used by anyone or decorations that add up. We buy items on a whim or on sale. If it is something made cheaply, it breaks easily and then we just have to purchase another . . . → Read More: The Story of Stuff Can we avoid using disposable plastics? Yes they are recyclable but… Continue reading Reduce our Use of Disposable Plastics. Do you drink bottle water? You might just want to rethink that after you watch this video, the story of stuff and bottled water. According to the United Nations, Raising animals for food is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.” If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is stop eating meat. Continue reading Eating Meat Harms the Planet As I share ways for us to be green, I decided to highlight 10 things I personally do at home to be green. Share with us some of the green things you do at home. Continue reading 10 things I do at home to be Green Consider sustainability when you renovate.1. Renovate rather than raze an old building. “It’s about as green as you can go as a first step,” says Toronto architect Janna Levitt. Continue reading 10 Tips for Living Green Do your holiday lights make your neighbourhood’s power station resort to auxiliary nuclear power? Choosing light-emitting diode technology—LED lights— that use as much as 95 percent less electricity than their inefficient predecessors and last up to 10 times longer is the best answer to making your festivities truly bright. Continue reading Guide to LED Christmas Lights Sarah Susanka, architect and author of the The Not So Big House books, thinks kitchens are out of control. Oversize appliances and gadgets that do everything we once did by hand now clutter our countertops and eat up storage. Continue reading Green at Home - The Minimalist Kitchen |
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