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CES highlights green technology

Icon Written by jennifer on January 3, 2008 – 3:34 pm

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 [...]



Home Theaters Go Green

Icon Written by brett on March 21, 2007 – 1:21 pm

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. [...]



Electicity Use… Find Out What Appliances Are Really Using

Icon Written by jennifer on March 12, 2007 – 12:40 pm

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 [...]



What is a zero energy home?

Icon Written by brett on March 4, 2007 – 12:49 pm

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 [...]



Seattles Liquid Sunshine is Good for Solar

Icon Written by jennifer on February 28, 2007 – 1:03 pm

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 [...]