Free Green House Plans

freegreen.com

Always build for your climate and your house plan should reflect this.

Report Cards

OPOWER is one company out to make a difference - getting people detailed info about their energy usage.

Aquatic Dead Zones

Agriculture run-off + the Gulf = dead zones

Spain's Cautionary Tale

Solar in Spain

Tiny Solar Power System

"A tiny solar power system that contains a processor, battery, and solar cells all in 9 cubic millimeters!"

Wave Power

Example: "installed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland, produces power with a hinged flap connected to the seabed. When a wave passes, the device pumps high pressure water to its onshore hydroelectric turbine."

Wind Power Outstrips Capacity in West TX

"After the wind generation soared Sunday, ERCOT curtailed it, because the supply of electricity outstripped the capacity of lines to move the power to urban areas such as Dallas-Fort Worth."

Building Codes Save Lives

Example: Chile

Personalize Energy Consumption

The future of energy efficiency is this type of technology that I would absolutely love in my house! PassivSystems that allow personalized energy consumption. Read about it in this article.

RESNET Conference 2010

You should definitely check out the presentations from this year's conference. Find the link attached to each presenter's name.