Is Your Heat Going Down The Drain With Your Hot Water?
Posted by lindseyshoe
Don’t let get caught in “hot water,” reduce, reuse and recycle not only your water usage but the heat and energy used to create your hot water.
April 26th, 2009
April 22nd, 2009
Green Jobs: Hype or Reality
Posted by carrie_roll
We get a lot of questions within the GreenJoyment community about green jobs. Where people can get hired, how much they can get paid, etc.
Well,you can join in on the discussion by joining the GreenJoyment community forums at http://www.Greenjoyment.com/forum.
You can also use this post below as a great place to start getting education on what “green jobs” are, what they mean for the US and global economy, and how you can participate in the changing culture of production jobs and industry in general.
Take a look:
http://blog.seriousmaterials.com/?p=295
April 22nd, 2009
Don’t Get Tied Down in Power Cords
Posted by lindseyshoe
Electrical cords were a marvelous invention that brought us the power to lamp light rooms, vacuum floors, blend Daiquiris, blow dry our hair and the list goes on and on. Unfortunately it seems that the electrical cords never did. With all of our newfound electrical freedom, we felt, well tied down. Now we can find a whole new source of power — without feeling tied down.
April 20th, 2009
Google Cooks Popcorn With The Sun: Using A Fresnel Lens
Posted by carrie_roll
I think the people over at Google are some of the greatest in the world.
So it’s no surprise that I ended up on their blog reading about experimentation with a Fresnel Lens.
Official Google Blog: Will it lens?
This concept for a fresnel lens is really nifty (hadn’t seen anything like it before) and could be applied (in a smaller lens, or by focusing the indirect light of the focal point on some kind of flat cooking surface) to actually cook food in your backyard.
Of course, there’s danger here too so it’s something to be aware of, but check it out.
Official Google Blog: Will it lens?
April 18th, 2009
TED The Energy Detective: What Will it Detect in Your House
Posted by lindseyshoe
The Energy Detective Electricity Monitor, or TED can help individuals and families gain control of their energy usage, reduce carbon emissions, and save money on utility bills in the process. How does it work? And does it work? FInd out what users of the Energy Detective have to say.
April 17th, 2009
Bahamas Beach Clean Up
Posted by carrie_roll
Just reposting this here for any of our GreenJoyment community members who may be in the Bahamas:
Starting this weekend and once a month for the year, “Go Clean Bahamas” begins. To help with trash pick up of items not normally picked up by the regular weekly garbage run, we are placing three containers, one at Montague, one at Arawak Cay and one at the intersection of Carmichael and Bacardi Road for the general public to use to help clean up our country. Any large items that need to be discarded, please carry to any of these locations and place in the bin (not beside it or we will need to hire persons to clean up afterward and we are trying to keep our cost down to the minimum.
April 13th, 2009
What is the Waterkeeper Alliance?
Posted by lindseyshoe
The Waterkeeper Alliance is a “neighborhood watch program” for waterways wherever they may be located. Who do they help, how do they work, where do they help and how can you be involved in keeping water clean?
April 9th, 2009
What’s in Your Greenhouse?
Posted by lindseyshoe
Have you ever considered a green house? Don’t know where to begin? Think they are too expensive? Maybe you have limited space and don’t think there is room for a greenhouse. If you have considered a greenhouse you can have many of your questions answered from how to build one to what to consider when planning a greenhouse. Find out about solar greenhouses and even ones made from 2 liter plastic bottles.
April 5th, 2009
Warm Up with Beer Can Solar Collectors
Posted by lindseyshoe
So you sometimes collect, um, beer cans? No doubt you usually recycle all your aluminum cans, but you may want to check out this unique way to reuse beer cans.
You’ve probably heard the ditty “Ninety Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall,” but how about 126 beer cans on the window? Or put to good use that beer can pyramid you designed in your college dorm.