Category — green living

Just south of Mississippi there is an oil spill that is spewing out thousands of gallons of oil into the ocean, killing fish, and ocean creatures as it goes. It is now at least a mile long. When will we learn to start conserving our resources and safeguards to prevent, or at least contain such a thing. The solution is weeks away. Current thought and discussion revolves around how to save commercial fisheries, leisure areas, etc. Not sure if there is a thought of the irresponsiblity of all of this on wildlife.

Remember when in 1989 the Exxon Valdez spilled over 10.8 million gallons. So far the current disaster has spilled over  290,000 gallons of oil. Even if this spill is not as big as the Exxon spill, it will still have devastating repercussions for the environment.

Even your pool can become solarized with these beautiful solar powered lights.

The easy way to solar power your house. Get the book.

Google,  gets about 200 million queries a day. Extrapolating the data a group of cool cats have figured out that wattage can be saved of about  8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year by altering a few codes and delivering the content in black instead of white. White causes a drain on energy to display on your monitor, whereby black is not going to cost as much or drain the earth’s resources from the use of electrical energy.

Check out Blackle.com to see Google in Black and save a little energy in the world.

As of this writing Blackle has saved 237,747.523 Watt hours – pretty impressive.

The competition is on and there’s nothing in it for the winner but fame. The solar houses are being built by university students – 20 teams of them which need to be able to power cars, refridgerators, heaters and electric appliances. See the wundava here

The Casa Solar picutred here is part of the project organized by the Department of Energy of the USA .

Who knows what will come out of it, perhaps a new home idea for one of our pals.