Articles: Renewable Energy

weatherproofing

Weatherproofing Your Windows: Preparing for Winter

Getting ready to pile on the blankets this winter? Warm up your home and increase efficiency this winter by weatherproofing…

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Energy and Transition

The new threshold for green building is not just low energy, it’s net-zero energy. In The New Net Zero, sustainable architect…

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Renewable Energy

The Energy Consumption Crisis

At the rate humanity is currently burning fossil fuels, we will create an uninhabitable earth long before we run out.…

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Earth Day

Earth Day Reading: 13 Essential Books

This year, people all around the world are celebrating a milestone—the 50th anniversary of this international day of action for…

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Rules for Regenerators: Search Out and Emphasize the Positive

Positive news stories about the state of our environment are few and far between. More common are stories that we’re…

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Doing Well By Doing Good

The list of issues impacting Earth’s rapid decline continues to grow at a highly alarming rate. Environmental concerns are entering…

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Water Connects Us All

Water is always changing and impacting the environment around it; storms form, droughts occur, and floods damage. It seems that…

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biochar

How to Make Biochar

For something that looks like a lump of charcoal, biochar certainly has a great press agent. The subject of books,…

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Depressed about Climate Change? Here’s How to Take Action

The facts about climate change are settled. Mostly. In fact, the news seems to get worse, and more urgent, every…

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Creating a Better Earth & Future: Overshoot & Collapse

The environment can only take so much gas emission, over farming, and plastic. What can you do to minimize your…

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solar cooker

Solar Cooker & Dehydrator: How to Design Your Own

In today’s world, nearly everything we use, from phones and computers to cars and kitchen appliances, requires energy derived from…

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Replacing Windows? Understand Your New Glass Options

Having been in my passive solar home for 35 years, my original Alcoa windows were showing their age. The time…

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Heat Your Home and Water with the Wind

Paul Gipe, wind energy expert and author of Wind Energy Basics: A Guide to Home- and Community-Scale Wind Energy Systems,…

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Heat Your Home with Renewable Fuels: The G.O.R.E. Project

The following article has been adapted for the web from Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options…

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Build Your Own Carbon-Free Fridge

The following project has been excerpted from The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit by…

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