Archive for the 'Energy' Category
digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/31/energy-bill-2007-gas-mileage-standards-petition/”; The energy bill under debate currently has the possibility to make some major changes in this countries environmental policy. What’s in the 2007 Energy Bill? The standards that are set up by the bill for fuel efficiency and renewable electricity standards are sufficiently aggressive to make a big difference in out planet’s [...]
October 31st, 2007 | Posted in Energy, Role of Government, Transportation | 3 Comments
Save to del.icio.us — tags water environment carbon savings Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/03/a-simple-step-you-can-take-install-a-low-flow-shower-head-save-water-money-carbon/”; If you’re like most Americans, you probably take a shower every day. Unless you’re already using a low-flow shower head, you have an opportunity to save some money in addition to cutting back on your family’s environmental impact. Low Flow [...]
October 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Energy, Environment, Reduce, Simple Steps, Uncategorized, Water | 12 Comments
Save to del.icio.us — tags energy blackgoogle greenIT environment Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/10/02/black-is-the-new-green-10-energy-saving-search-sites-black-google-blackgoogle/”; Black is the New Green. At least, that’s the message of a movement sometimes referred to as Black Google. The idea first appeared in a January 20th blog post by Mark Ontkush, where he examines how much energy could potentially [...]
October 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Energy, Environment, Fun, Global Warming, Reduce, Simple Steps, Uncategorized | 34 Comments
Save to del.icio.us — tags green house energy windows Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/09/30/this-green-old-house-windows-farmhouse-energy/”; Introducing This Green Old House – An ongoing column by James Turner Greetings, and welcome to This Green Old House! My name is James Turner and over the next months (and maybe years), I hope to share with you some [...]
September 30th, 2007 | Posted in Citizen Journalism, Energy, This Old Green House | 1 Comment
Save to del.icio.us — tags bicycling, environment Add to Stumbleupon digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/09/14/how-to-commute-by-bicycle-bicycling-good-bikes-for-commuting”; With the rise of oil prices and the growing ‘green’ movement, people everywhere are evaluating commuting to work by bicycle. And based on the response to our recent post “Choices: Bike or Drive?”, many of our readers are interested in commuting by [...]
September 14th, 2007 | Posted in Choices, Energy, Environment, Personal Values | 11 Comments
Here’s a great youtube video that shows a comparison between regular light bulbs, Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs and newer, super efficient LED light bulbs. Based on comments left on the site, I know that our readers are interested in learning more on LED Light bulbs. This video provides a very simple comparison that’s easy [...]
September 13th, 2007 | Posted in Energy, Simple Steps | 7 Comments
Sometimes readers send me links. I think it’s great because I get to know what interests people. Here are some recent ones: Our twitter follower bythebayou @replied me a link to Co-op America. They look interesting — I like that they encourage people to take action. Another twitter follower monkchips, sent this link on saving [...]
August 16th, 2007 | Posted in Citizen Journalism, Energy, Role of Government, Water | 3 Comments
When I was doing the research for our Ultimate Guide to Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) Bulbs, I put together a short section on calculating the savings for each CFL bulb you installed. In order to make it easier for our readers to find this work, I’ve summarized it here in this post. Compact Fluorescent Light [...]
August 15th, 2007 | Posted in Energy | 13 Comments
digg_url = “http://www.21st-century-citizen.com/2007/08/10/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/”; One of the simplest activities that anyone can undertake to reduce their energy use (and their electricity bills!) is to switch out their traditional light bulbs with the newer, Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs. They save money, last longer, and are better for the environment. Our regular readers may remember that we [...]
August 10th, 2007 | Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Reduce | 27 Comments
The University of California today released a blueprint today that will fight global warming by forcing reductions in the amount of carbon released when fuels are burned. The new “low carbon fuel standard” is expected to be a model for future laws adopted in other states and around the world. The new standard was commissioned [...]
August 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Energy, Environment, Global Warming | 1 Comment
