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!
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…
via sobuka.comIf 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.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Washington DC Bike-Sharing Program
Monday, May 24, 2010
Washington DC Bike-Sharing Program
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.
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, Uncategorized. 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.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Greening your home: part 3 of 5
Greening your home: part 3 of 5
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by Nick
Coming up is Memorial Day! Before you start the holiday, you can make sure your home is comfortable for everyone by following a few more green tips on heating and cooling as part of our Greening Your Home series.
Heating/Cooling…
1. Install a programmable thermostat to keep your house comfortably warm in the winter and comfortably cool in the summer.
2. Lower the thermostat on your hot water heater to 120°F. Take short showers instead of baths.
3. During the heating season, keep the draperies and shades on your south-facing windows open during the day to allow the sunlight to enter your home and closed at night to reduce the chill you may feel from cold windows.
4. Clean or replace filters on furnaces once a month or as needed. Clean baseboard heaters, and radiators as needed; make sure they’re not blocked by furniture, carpeting, or drapes.
5. Winterize windows with weather stripping (for all moveable joints) and caulk (for non-moving parts). Also, install a window kit to the inside of your windows to help keep cold air out and warm air in.
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: energy efficiency tips
This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 8:57 pm and is filed under Do it Yourself. 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.
Greening your home: Part 4 of 5
Greening your home: Part 4 of 5
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by Nick
Coming up is Memorial Day! Before you start the holiday, you can make sure your home is comfortable for everyone by following a few more green tips on being more efficient with your laundry needs as part of our Greening Your Home series.
1. Wash only full loads of clothes in cold water using cold-water detergents whenever possible.
2. Don’t over-dry your clothes. If your machine has a moisture sensor, use it.
3. Clean the lint filter in the dryer after every load to improve air circulation.
4. Periodically inspect your dryer vent to ensure it is not blocked. This will save energy and may prevent a fire.
5. Look for the ENERGY STAR and Energy Guide labels. ENERGY STAR clothes washers clean clothes using 50% less energy than standard washers
6. Get your kids involved (www.loseyourexcuse.gov)
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: energy efficiency, laundry
This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 8:59 pm and is filed under Do it Yourself, Uncategorized. 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.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Greening your home: part 3 of 5 Memorial Day Special
Greening your home: part 3 of 5
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by admin
Coming up is Memorial Day! Before you start the holiday, you can make sure your home is comfortable for everyone by following a few more green tips on heating and cooling as part of our Greening Your Home series.
Heating/Cooling…
1. Install a programmable thermostat to keep your house comfortably warm in the winter and comfortably cool in the summer.
2. Lower the thermostat on your hot water heater to 120°F. Take short showers instead of baths.
3. During the heating season, keep the draperies and shades on your south-facing windows open during the day to allow the sunlight to enter your home and closed at night to reduce the chill you may feel from cold windows.
4. Clean or replace filters on furnaces once a month or as needed. Clean baseboard heaters, and radiators as needed; make sure they’re not blocked by furniture, carpeting, or drapes.
5. Winterize windows with weather stripping (for all moveable joints) and caulk (for non-moving parts). Also, install a window kit to the inside of your windows to help keep cold air out and warm air in.
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: Memorial Day Tips
This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 8:57 pm and is filed under Do it Yourself, Energy Audits, Green Remodeling, Green Technology, Uncategorized, 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.
Sunday, May 16, 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.
If you like to have an analysis of heat loss at your home or small business, 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 zip code and selecting contractors in your area or visit www.sobuka.com
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.
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.
If you would like to have an analysis of heat loss at your home or small business, 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 zip code and selecting contractors in your area or visit www.sobuka.com
Tags: Electric Car
This entry was posted on Friday, May 7th, 2010 at 5:21 pm and is filed under 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.
Mother’s Day 2010 – Be Green
Mother’s Day 2010 – Be Green
Posted on May 9th, 2010 by Nick
It’s mother’s day and the following things seems to be trending. Joe Biden, Gas Prices (I can understand), Amazing Race, NASCAR, and the pill!? And all before Mother’s Day. So we took some time to dedicate this article to all moms. If you are trying to scatter around for some gifts, here’s our list. Feel free to send us your thoughts and ideas for our list.
Mother’s day is here. We were thinking of gifts you can present to your mom so we came up with a few simple ideas and broke them down into categories:
Here’s our collaborative list:
1. Seeds can make a nice gift.
2. Create a green card from recycled paper. Not the type of green card from the INS office. LOL
3. Help her around the house. Mom’s always love having company. There must me tons of stuff that may need recycling.
4. Present her with a green garden container to plant seeds within the house.
5. Purchase an eco friendly bag to do some shopping.
6. Take her out to the park. Do something outdoors by taking Metro.
7. If you noticed some old appliances, making it’s time to trade them in for energy efficient appliances.
8. Purchase flowers that you can re-grow in the house.
9. There are a lot of green clothes out there to wear. Maybe go shopping. She may love that.
10. Check out green accessories like watches and earrings.If you have any suggestions or ideas to add on this list, send us an email and we will add it on.
If you would like to have an analysis of heat loss at your home or small business, 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 zip code and selecting contractors in your area or visit www.sobuka.com
Tags: Green Gifts, Mother's Day 2010
This entry was posted on Sunday, May 9th, 2010 at 2:12 pm and is filed under Do it Yourself, Environment, 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.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Untitled
Earth Day 2010. Played John Legend, The Roots, Jimmy Cliff, Passion Pit, Bob Weir, Willie Colón, Joss Stone, Robert Randolph, Patrick Stump, Mavis Staples, Booker T, Honor Society and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger. No Black Eyed Peas there :(
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.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Going Green & Clean Can Prevent Dirty Mishaps
Going Green & Clean Can Prevent Dirty Mishaps
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Sulaiman
Non-renewable Energy (Oil)
If you have watched the news or read the newspaper in the last week or so, you know about the devastating “Oil Spill” near the Gulf Coast Region which is effecting tourism, commerce, and the coastline. However, most importantly it is effecting the animals as the pictures display above. This is a dirty way to produce energy, waste money and at the same time hurt the environment!
Renewable Energy (Solar and Wind Power)
Renewable Energy on the other hand such as Wind or Solar is much cleaner, it doesn’t hurt the enivironment and it also can save everyone money! Going Green and Clean is the BEST way to go. Make the right choice and Go Green and Clean…do it for me, do it for yourself, do it for your children, do it for the poor little animals, and do it for the environment!! Start today and search for Green Resources in your community by entering your zipcode here!
Tags: OffShore wind energy, Oil Spill, Solar Energy, Wind Energy
This entry was posted on Monday, May 3rd, 2010 at 12:32 pm and is filed under Environment, Featured Content, Solar Energy, Wind Energy. 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.
