Washington DC Bike-Sharing Program
Posted on May 24th, 2010 by Nick
Program is Getting 10x Bigger!
Washington DC’s SmartBike, the first bike-sharing program in the USA, is about to be supplanted by a much bigger and better bike-share. It will be based on Montréal’s Bixi and grow the number of bikes and stations almost ten-fold!
Bikes in Washington DC
Bike-Sharing is Awesome
SmartBike has only 120 bikes and 10 stations, but the new version of the project will have about 1,100 bikes and 114 stations all around the district and in the neighboring Arlington County.by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada. View full article here.
If you live in the Washington DC area, commuting on a bike sounds like a good idea to avoid traffic during the weekdays and even the weekends. Think about how much money you can also save and how you can reduce your carbon footprint.
Who knows, maybe one day you’ll be around K street or Logan Circle, and we may have bike rush-hour traffic like this…
If you would like to learn more about what you can do to go green, a nice energy audit will send you in the right direction. The insight you gain from it will give you plenty of ideas for a little green remodeling, so you can become part of the solution. Sign up for an energy audit through Sobuka by typing in your zipcode and selecting contractors in your area.
Tags: bike, Washington DC
This entry was posted on Monday, May 24th, 2010 at 10:22 pm and is filed under Environment, Featured Content, Green Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Washington DC Bike-Sharing Program
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Time to eMonitor your home
Time to eMonitor your home
Posted on May 14th, 2010 by alex
This outta be the next best thing for any home! Are you one of those wise-conscious owners who tries to police energy usage in your homes? Smile now, help is within your reach. In several efforts to curtail high billing expenses or maintain energy-conserving discipline, an improved technology has been developed just for these kinds of measures. PowerHouse Dynamics introduces eMonitor – a home energy manager. This eMonitor provides information on how much electricity is used in a room or by appliance consumption. eMonitor is considered a long term investment with initial saving on energy bill from 5% to 20% of installation within the year. One can consider eMonitor a good auditing device that would analyze as well as outline proper daily usage of energy.
At a marginal price of $799, the eMonitor is served with a 5-year monthly service – which is reasonable enough if equated on its savings. Its active recommendation through email or phone (with the necessary app) counts as one of the features from the device. I am sure lots of people will be interested to know how much energy is wasted. However most folks do not know that if they buy into this technology, they would be contributing to lowering their carbon footprint. I suppose the government can create some type of incentive program for leveraging energy bills or housing infrastructure…Just a wishful thought. Nevertheless, eMonitor will serve a much greater purpose than expected.
Feel free to take a few steps in the right direction by getting quotes from our green contractors for solar or wind energy services, energy efficiency audits, or green remodeling projects by going to our homepage and doing a quick search with your zipcode (currently supporting DC, MD, VA only).
Tags: Energy-Conserving, Home
This entry was posted on Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 11:07 am and is filed under Energy Audits, Featured Content. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
one of many cool alternatives to monitor your home's energy consumption
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Nissan Showing new LEAF
Nissan Showing new LEAF
Posted on May 7th, 2010 by alex
Talk about bang for your buck!!! Nissan’s Leading Environmentally-friendly, Affordable, Family car is a trend setting type of engineered battery car. Its battery pack estimated at (£6000) which is $8,896 raises a lot of interest as well as reasonable pricing that is drawing tons of reservation for this car when it launches in not so far 2011. Nissan LEAF will be in tough competition with GM’s Volt in terms of driving range; then again there will be “logical” reasons to give when the time comes. Nevertheless, Nissan LEAF has been designed to be self-sustaining. Annual car maintenance doesn’t apply with this vehicle (except yearly brake pad inspection) and its navigation system is globally connected especially for re-charging purposes for stations. I guess we will soon start hearing more about charging station expansion and infrastructure in 2011.
I hope other manufacturing car company can follow suit or compete to bring the best of clean energy to the United States as well as getting back to leading in manufacturing [which interprets as more long lasting green jobs]. Nissan LEAF offers more with its new technology and affordability with all things considered ( pricing for 5-car seater, driving range and up-keep). These are the immediate factors that need be trendy so that climate changes and environmental technology become the new “hip” for the decade.
Tags: Electric Car
This entry was posted on Friday, May 7th, 2010 at 5:21 pm and is filed under Environment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
best bang for your green buck?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Oil Spill at the Gulf of Mexico
Oil Spill at the Gulf of Mexico
Posted on May 5th, 2010 by Nick
While reading up on the possibilities of this bike (Persu Hybrid) powered by a fuel efficient battery, I could not help but think about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. If you have not heard by now, there was an oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico a few weeks ago. The involved parties involving government and private entities are looking to contain the oil spill by burning it away. Something as severe as this does not happen too often but with all the talk about green, it makes going green an important business.
Let’s start with what oil is needed or its daily use and what types of healthier alternatives can take its place.
There are green alternatives for fossil fuels for all of the products below. So what we did was write possible alternatives right next to each one. Check out the new green world as followed in our alternate ‘universe’ example:
GASOLINE – In our alternate green universe, everyone is driving renewable cars powered by smart batteries and/or hydrogen.
DIESEL FUEL – In our alternate green universe, trucks are being powered by 100% biodiesel.
JET FUEL – In our alternate green universe, all jet fuel is composed of waste materials. Check out Flag-carrier British Airways (BA).
BUNKER FUEL – In our alternate green universe, all bunker fuel is composed of waste materials as well.
SYNTHETIC RUBBER – In our alternate green universe, all rubber is made from crops. The rubber is then recycled. Check out Guayule – A new clean tech industry.
DETERGENT – In our alternate green universe, all detergents are made from natural surfactants (made from coconut, palm and vegetable oil), sodium carbonate, preservatives, and water. Check out Sun & Earth 2x Free and Clear Unscented Laundry as an example.
PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM – By now in our alternate green universe everyone has a digital camera.
PLASTICS – In our alternate green universe, everyone is carrying eco-friendly recyclable/compostable bags.
You get the point. There are many uses of oil and the list can go on and on. It only takes will power. In the United States alone we consume about 20 million barrels of oil per day. That is enough to power a third of the world by itself! The Persu Hybrid is one example of a fuel efficient vehicle running on 75 + MPG. Image that! If everyone were using these types of vehicles, we could cut our dependency to more than half. It only takes will power. Let’s make our alternate universe a reality today.
Tags: alternative energy sources, oil spill gulf of mexico 2010, Persu Hybrid
This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 at 2:59 pm and is filed under Environment, Featured Content, Green Technology, sustainable products. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
good list of alternatives to oil