CES, one of the largest tradeshows in the world features all types of home electronics. But this year, with green living gaining a strong presence—they are making this a major focus of the show.
Today, in the Seattle Times, there is a lengthly article highlighting some of the home automation products at CES that are testing [...]

Many do not consider a Home Theater could be anything green. With pounding speakers and projection systems how could they?
Well first off, buy local. You don’t have to import the speakers to get the best sound. One of my favorite speakers are manufactured an hour north on I-5 in Mount Vernon. [...]

All homes in the US have an electric meter. Since this is how we are charged for our consumption it makes sense to use this as a measure for products electricity. We can then evaluate if making the change to a new product will benefit the earth in reduced consumption and ultimately will it at [...]

Many people ask me this question…here I will try to keep the answer as simple and straight forward as possible.
If you have solar, at any particular moment, your home may be producing more electricity than it is consuming. You can take that extra electricity and work with your power company to put it back [...]

Many consider Seattle a poor location for Solar systems.
Consider this—Seattle has a solar rating near 4 kWh/sq-m/day, whereas Orlando has only a rating of 5.5. Think about the summer time week with 16 hours of visible daylight on June 21st. Notice I have not mentioned sunlight, but daylight. Solar still [...]