Posted by carrie_roll
Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal.
Posted by Christine Bennett
It’s cute, it’s small, it’s functional, and now it’s totally Green. Corbin Sparrow is a small, covered, three-wheeled motorcycle that can get you where you need to go. Sound weird? This cute vehicle is more than adorable, it packs a punch.
Posted by Lisa Carey
Starting married life off right can include a committment not only to each other but to go “green.” Find out about these environmentally friendly honeymoon options.
Posted by Christine Bennett
Here is another update for you tech-savvy individuals. I thought I’d forward on all these amazing new iPhone and Blackberry applications that I received through an IdealBite email. After hearing about the 3rdWhale iPhone application, it was interesting to hear about all the other one’\s out there. Isn’t it cool what is out there?
Posted by carrie_roll
With cutting-edge nanotech, Michael Pritchard’s Lifesaver water-purification bottle could revolutionize water-delivery systems in disaster-stricken areas around the globe.
Posted by carrie_roll
Background:For some of you excellent DIY people, this comes natural. But for the rest of us, conversions from volts and amps to watts can lead to confusion and frustration.
If you’re building your own solar panels, at some point, you’ll end up wondering how to calculate the different energy conversions of watts, volts, amps, amperes, and you’ll wonder how much wattage goes into charging a 6 volt or 12 volt battery.
To get things working right, you’ll need to calculate watts, volts, and amps.
Unfortunately, they don’t all work together simply, but there are some very simple ways to do the conversions.
The most recent GreeyDiyEnergy videos have some GREAT Step-By-Step screens to show you EXACTLY what to do, so I bootlegged one of them and posted it here. (Not the whole video, just the image screen which shows the conversions and how watts, volts, and amps relate to each other.)
Posted by lindseyshoe
Consider these environmentally friendly wedding ring options, from vintage to natural bamboo. Who says you can’t have your diamond and be eco-friendly too?
Posted by lindseyshoe
In the U.S. there are crops grown specifically for bio fuels including corn, sunflower and soybeans. In Europe, flaxseed and rapeseed are used for cleaner biodiesel fuels. What about the rest of the world? Are other countries interested in using biodiesel fuels? If so, what type of biomass products would they use?
Posted by carrie_roll
I don’t make any money or anything for telling you about this sun tracker, (and to be honest, I don’t even understand much of what he’s talking about on his web site) but for those of you who are making solar panels, this should be highly effective and helpful for you.
I’ve now seen several projects which have used this and have had great success getting their home made solar panels to follow the sun.
$35 Sun tracker
Here’s a guy who built a solar tracker using the $35 tracker and a bed frame.
Posted by carrie_roll
Steve and Caron Wenzel of Woodstock, Illinois show their solar home in this video.
The video below shows their solar and alternative energy research, as well as what they did to buy and install a grid inter-tied photovoltaic solar generating system on the roof of their suburban home.