Living Green is Cool: Earth day is near, what have you heard lately?

Every one makes the effort to encourage and promote eco-friendly consciousness or awareness, proving there are variety of benefits that steam from energy consumption to sustainable nourishment. Consistently, newer technology points to different aspects to sustainable environment. In other instances, energy efficient technology is the in-coming wave to business investments and other living endeavors. So to that effect we thought about highlighting some cool eco-friendly features in recognition of Earth day.

Young kid singled-handedly take on Climate Change:

Alec Loorz, a young teenager was inspired by an earth awakening documentary that caused him to embark on a mission to educate people about the concerns of climate change. Not until his bold endeavors did he gain more attention. Loorz became the youngest to be featured at The Climate Project. Then he initiated a his company (Kids vs Global Warming) to connect with youth to continue educating about climate change. Today you see many more people inspired by his achievements.That is youth grass-root foundation at its best.

Mobile App navigation for electric car charge stations:

While we have a growing list of electric cars soon to debut, I am sure many of us would eventually be looking to either sign up to the waiting list or perhaps walk in to purchase/lease an electric car. So while those who are already in line to soon own one, can be one thing less worried about for finding the closest charging station. Xatori developed an app – PlugShare, which will serve as the information resource for electric car owners to buy or share electric outlets. Though this could be also done by simple internet search, the difference is that this app provides electric car owners with comprehensive list of charging stations along with homes or locations that are part of the program that offer the different options of electric charging services. In turn plug-in electric vehicle stations would develop network association which is gladly welcomed.

Plastic bag ban in U.S cities:

You may have heard that Italy, Mexico or some cities in Canada ban the use of plastic bags. Well the momentum is running its course within the United States. Oregon or Washington state is set to be the first to adopt a statewide plastic ban. Their effort seems to be the most compelling attempt than some states that initiated imposed taxing on plastic bag purchases.Eventually other cities, then further to states would adopt the same policy to ban plastic bag usage. It already seems to be collectively endorsed by grocery stores and restaurants.This poses to be a more effective approach for us to unlearn the use of plastic bags to impact our behavior.

The push for clean energy – first up, solar maybe?

Recent interest and investments on solar technology has been on the rise. Several cities and states like Arizona, New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey among others have engaged in different solar panel acquisition doubling the national interest from previous year. These moves have offered projections that will reduce the cost of solar. At it seems, the outlook will continue closing in as the solar market expands. There are options that are already established such as solar lease or solar renewable energy credits (S-Recs) that are available to many states. Sobuka is proud to be in association to provide affordable renewable energy services to your business or homes*. Wind energy is not far behind; Google and Warren Buffet (MidAmerican) heavily invested in wind farm development along with large sums of government grants towards wind energy expansion.The result to this is clean energy – green jobs. So the push for clean energy is shifted on the next gear. Now it is time for people and communities to embrace it and create more popularity as solar energy.

Shipping containers: The new housing design concept

Just when you get wowed by beautiful building designs, more innovative concepts keep rolling out. Recycled shipping containers are gaining more attention to build for homes and businesses. Though this is not a new housing concept,some of the latest models are more appealing to small businesses; in fact it is a good incentive to quickly set-up an establishment. You could buy a shipping container from ebay, apply your architectural design, subscribe to a renewable energy supplier, then your smart business comes to life.These shipping containers are cheap (with respect to conventional housing construction), conducive and more reliable in security. It is certainly a welcoming element for commercialized trailers – especially for fast food joints such as this.

People with opportune landscapes should be thinking to explore a shipping container business/housing structure. Reading through businesses that own shipping container models in places as North Carolina or Austin,Texas,they enjoy the benefits of self-advertisement as their unique design draws more crowds. This counts as one of the coolest eco-friendly features in our recent technology.

These are among the few highlights worth of mentioning based on eco-living ventures. As we look to celebrate and share experiences about the frills of the environment, we stand to encourage and promote the notion that eco-living is smart living. So invest in any relative energy efficient resource.

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