Custom Wix Website Design for Widefoc.us
March 24, 2014
I’m proud to announce my latest website design for my long time friend and client, Eric Elkins, who owns WideFoc.us, a social media company based in Denver, Colorado. WideFoc.us specializes in helping clients represent and manage their brands in social media. They help come up with campaigns, training staff, and building audiences. This website design […]
Green Web Design – Google’s Spring Doodle
March 20, 2014
In celebration of the 1st day of spring today, Google has a cute doodle that show’s an animated line drawing figure watering and growing plants, becoming the Google name – very cute! Below are some screen captures from it, but of course you can see it today on Google as well!
Organic preserves made in Colorado
January 29, 2014
Do you have a lot of fruit trees or an excess of produce? Check out Modern Gingham Preserves, a local Colorado company based in Denver, whom I’m proud to work with on the design of her logo and labels. Kathy Lee, the chef and owner, uses local, organic sources of most of the produce that […]
Organic Mulch made in Colorado
January 29, 2014
Mountain High Tree, Lawn and Landscape in Lakewood, Colorado, makes their own organic mulch from 100% recycled branches and logs from their pruning jobs. You can’t buy better mulch anywhere, I had 1.5 yards of their Dark Brown Fines mulch delivered last spring, and it is amazing stuff – no construction debris or large pieces of wood, […]
Solar Powered Apple MacBook in the works
January 29, 2014
I’ve been wondering when companies were going to start creating products, such as computers, cameras and phones, with solar panels to power them. Well, check this out – it looks like Apple is working on it! Apple patents solar-powered MacBook with two-sided display and rear touch inputs By Mikey Campbell / Source: appleinsider.com The U.S. Patent […]
Composting in Denver
January 2, 2014
We just got our compost container from the city of Denver – what a great service to offer so that we can start diverting our compostable trash away from the landfills! We are excited especially because our new house has nearly 20 trees, so we have a lot of debris to fill the bucket! Of […]
Plants are good for you
September 11, 2013
Now I know what I like plants so much. They reduce blood pressure, make people feel calmer, increase optimism, alleviate depression, remove toxins from the air, create oxygen, and more… check out this neat infographic by the team at Artificial Plants and Trees (though I’m not sure most of these stats would apply to fake […]
Lift a Rock to Power a Light
September 4, 2013
Another ingenius invention – a light that is powered by gravity. GravityLight, developed by Deciwatt, is powered by the weight of a bag of rocks or dirt as it descends. You simply attach a fabric bag filled with rocks, sand or earth, then attach it to the light’s cord to power the light for up […]
Red Cedars recovering with the help of the Clean Air Act
September 3, 2013
We’re lucky, the planet can often recover from our damaging ways – as long as we start making better choices! The Clean Air Act, established in 1963, was developed to enforce regulations on airborne contaminants know to be hazardous to human health. Amendments made in 1970 added the requirement of comprehensive federal and state regulations […]
Microalgae Powered Lights!
September 3, 2013
What a neat idea – French Bio-chemist Pierre Calleja of Fermentalg, a cleantech company that develops sustainable solutions using microalgae, invented a street light that is powered by CO2-feeding microalgae. These lights actually consume CO2, and in-turn, provide light! One of these lights can absorb a full ton of CO2 each year, this would take […]
New Bike Lane in Denver!
August 27, 2013
Good news for Denver! Denver Public Works is currently working on the Phase I of the 15th Street Bikeway, a new buffered bike lane that has some new bike-friendly features that are new in Denver. This is a great step in the right direction, I always go out of my way to take bike-lanes around town, and […]
EPA Finally Steps in to Help Protect Bees
August 22, 2013
Here is some more good environmental news! The EPA is ordering a reduction of the use of pesticides associated with the now widely recognized decline of bee populations. Here’s an excerpt, below, from: washingtonexaminer.com, that talks about what is bee-ing done. It’s a good start in the right direction – we need to stop poisoning […]
Lots of Turtle Nesting sites this year in Florida!
August 2, 2013
Some good news for sea turtles – reports are in that nesting sites have increased in Florida, perhaps due to protections put into place in the 1970s. Read the article, from abcactionnews.com, below: ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. – The number of successful nesting sites for loggerhead turtles on Anna Maria Island is close to breaking […]
CO2ube – Reducing Carbon Dioxide from Cars
July 24, 2013
These young genius’s (the founders of Ecoviate, Param Jaggi and Jonny Cohen) are working on a device called the CO2ube which can attach to any car’s exhaust pipe, using algae to convert the Carbon Dioxide into a neutral chemical (sodium carbonate). This is a very interesting concept – it may pave the road to a […]
Google Doodle for Earth Day
April 22, 2013
Happy Earth Day! Check out Google’s Doodle commemorating Earth Day today. You can interact with the Doodle, changing seasons with lots of fun details such as flying birds, growing trees and swimming fish. The Google team has created over 1000 doodles for our homepages around the world, bringing a little bit of joy and information to […]
Japan’s Pollution Diet
February 15, 2013
Here is some good news about how a nation can change and clear up their air with regulation: Japan’s Pollution Diet By ALEXANDRA HARNEY | International Herald Tribune Opinion TOKYO — Seeing Beijing wreathed in smog throughout the winter, it has been hard not to worry about the costs of China’s rapid economic growth. As Jon Stewart pointed […]
14 Colorado schools get 5,000 solar panels
October 6, 2012
Here is some good news on the Colorado solar energy front – fourteen schools get solar panels installed on their buildings. This week 14 Colorado schools turned on the power to 5,000 solar panels. TheExaminer.com | OCTOBER 2, 2012 | BY: ROBERT BOWEN Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) flipped the switch Monday on 1.4 MW of green energy generated […]
Fix your iPhone
September 20, 2012
Photo from: www.ifixit.com It’s sad that our society is so consumed with consumerism, now more than ever with cell phones. I know a few people that actual pre-order their Apple gadgets prior to their release, and then run out to get them the second they’re available, tossing their “old” 1 year old phones/ipads/ipods to the side. […]
Good tips for Retailers on Facebook
September 12, 2012
For all my clients that are using Facebook to promote their businesses – here is a great graphic showing what to post – they recommend posting only 10% promotional content – the rest should be sharing and posts that add value and content for users, while building brand recognition. Facebook is another way to promote […]
Save Energy by Unplugging Appliances
August 16, 2012
Here is a good reference chart that shows how much energy appliances use when plugged in, even when they are turned off. Good motivation to unplug everything when not in use! Product Passive Standby or Off (watts) Active Standby(watts) Active(watts) Average Annual Energy Use (kWh) Home Entertainment Plasma TV (<40″) 3 – 246 441 DVR/TiVo […]