Green Design – Electric Cars
August 2, 2010
Chevrolet Volt Here is an article about electric cars from the Daily Herald by Marni Pyke. Maybe nobody will kill the electric car this time. 🙂 I love how my Tesla goes from 0 to 60 mph in less than 4 seconds. All right, technically, it’s not my Tesla since it costs $109,000, but it […]
Green Design: MVRDV’s Green Resort
July 20, 2010
Montenegro is a strongly growing economy touristic. This is largly due to its rough and unspoiled coastline. Some parts of the coastline are already heavily developed but most of the coastline is still untouched. On a piece of this untouched coastline, barely 2 kilometers from the monumental village fisher peninsula Sveti Stefan, a resort with […]
Green Web Design – Milehigreen.com
July 10, 2010
My development Partner, Kurt Whitt of Planet Media, has teamed up with Erin Behrenhausen in a great new green website project, www.milehigreen.com. This website is a great resource for original articles providing information to metro Denver residents about ways to green Colorado and the planet. This month: read about How to go Solar for FREE […]
Hybrid Solar-Coal Plant in Colorado
July 2, 2010
Interesting, Excel Energy is taking a hybrid solar-coal approach using parabolic-trough solar technology to provide heat to produce supplemental steam for power generation at their new Cameo Station Unit 2. The benefits: • decrease the overall consumption of coal, • reduce emissions from the plant, • improve plant efficiency, • test commercial viability of concentrating […]
Green Web Design
April 19, 2010
Here is a good article about how websites are green: Greening Your Website Can Help Green Your Business Source: Coopweb, April 6, 2010 On April 22nd, our planet celebrates its 40th Earth Day. I am a strong proponent that it’s the little changes that can help make big change in our businesses and ultimately our […]
Denver Energy Blitz – April 24th
April 1, 2010
Volunteers Needed Neighborhood Energy Blitz Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:30 a.m. – Noon City Park West, City Park South, Bellevue-Hale, Mayfair & Hilltop neighborhoods On April 24, 2010, 5 neighborhoods – City Park West, City Park South, Bellevue-Hale, Mayfair and Hilltop – will partner with Greenprint Denver to bring energy efficiency services and weatherization upgrades […]
Denver Ranks 4th for ENERGY STAR Buildings
April 1, 2010
Denver Ranks 4th of U.S. Cities with ENERGY STAR Buildings The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest number of energy efficient buildings in 2009– buildings that have earned EPA’s ENERGY STAR label. During the past year, Denver jumped from seventh to fourth place, and now boasts […]
April’s Green Tip from District 5 Newsletter
March 25, 2010
April’s Green Tip: Mile High Million Source: http://www.denvergov.org In an effort to reduce residential energy costs and provide job training for military veterans, The Mile High Million has teamed up with Veterans Green Jobs to plant trees across Denver. Funded as part a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the City’s Greenprint Denver programs will strategically […]
Water Week Website Launched
March 24, 2010
Check out the new Water Week website that I designed with my programming partner, Planet Media. The website was designed for the documentary film, Tapped, in their recognition of World Water Week 2010. Check out the site – complete with Flash animation, video clips from the film, and great articles written by environmentalists for each […]
Community Solar Gardens
March 18, 2010
Putting solar gardens in communities is an interesting idea to help neighbors share in the initial cost of solar panels, and the benefit of their ongoing use, while reducing the strain on our power grid. An interesting idea – I would suggest that these “solar gardens” be added to existing parking lots using solar trees […]
Denver Bike Sharing
March 18, 2010
Early Registration for Bike Share Program Has Begun This Spring, Denver will become one of the first U.S. cities to launch a full-scale comprehensive public bicycle sharing system. The vision is to change the culture of transportation in Denver by implementing bike sharing. Not only will the initiative define bike sharing in the U.S., but […]
Odell Brewing adds Solar Panels
January 18, 2010
Here is another Colorado company who has adopted solar – the panels will provide 39% of the power needed to power Odell’s brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado. Pretty expensive system, though – they received a grant for $50,000, but the project cost total came to $410,000! I’m not sure how big their electric bill is, […]
Forever Green Website Launch
December 6, 2009
I am proud to announce the launch of the Girl Scouts Forever Green website, complete with a dynamic animated Flash tree that shows the overall progress of the Girl Scouts of Colorado Forever Green projects. The website encourages girls to implement take-action community projects. The goal is to bring sustainable, environmental change to their communities […]
Recycle Sponges in Potted Plants
December 3, 2009
Recycle your old sponges in your potted plants. Especially good for keeping outdoor soil pots moist, old cellulose sponges make the perfect bottom component of planted pots. 1. Rinse the old sponge throughly to remove any soap residue. 2. Cut sponge to fit into plant pot, place in pot, then cover with potting soil, and […]
Flash Snowflake Generator
December 1, 2009
The Flash developers over at Barkley did a great job on this charming interactive flash snowflake generator, called, “Make-a-Flake”. It’s an incredibly simple yet incredibly complex — everyone can in seconds create their own snowflake, then choose to save it for the gallery, and you can even email your flake to friends or save it […]
Good Environmental News – Update
November 12, 2009
Here is a positive article written by By Gregg Easterbrook from rd.com: So here’s the good news: Our air is cleaner, our lakes are purer, our forests are healthier, endangered species are recovering, toxic emissions are down, and acid rain has diminished dramatically. And yet, if you’ve looked at a newspaper or watched the evening […]
Question: Do urban forests offset rainforest loss?
November 8, 2009
Here’s a question I thought of recently: Do the planted trees of our cities and suburbia at all offset the loss of our rainforests? I’m not suggesting that the natural ecosystems of rainforests can be replaced with planted trees in yards, but does it make a difference? I welcome comments!
Aquarium water – recycle in your garden
November 2, 2009
If you have an aquarium – don’t flush away the water when you clean! Instead, use it for your garden and plants. As you siphon out fish waste and decaying food particles, you are also siphoning out large amounts of helpful bacteria along with all the trace nutrients all plants need to survive (Phosphorus, Nitrogen, […]
Rooftop solar adds 522 Megawatts to the grid
September 8, 2009
Photo from: Gogreenelectricinc.com Between 2006-2008, according to the Interstate Renewable Energy Council’s 2006-08 count, consumers added 522 megawatts to the grid. Utility companies, however, added added just 96 megawatts. This is quite a change of direction of where new power is coming from. Instead of utility driven megaprojects (acres of land covered in thousands of […]