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More and more, people are connected to their online lives all day. With smartphones we can carry computers in our pockets, it’s easy enough to listen to music while checking email on the bus. But how aware are we of the water we use everyday? Can smartphones actually keep us more connected to our water usage? They can. Continue reading 5 iPhone Apps That Will Help You Save Water July 5th, 2010 | Tags: apps, iphone, Sustainability, Water | Category: Green Living, Home Inspection, mississippi, Thinking Green, Water Savings/Efficiency |
Leave a comment | And now for a dose of reality. No doubt smart meters are a good thing, but even their most ardent fans must admit that a degree of hoopla surrounds these little digital boxes. We hear that if consumers can just see how much power they use in real time, and what it costs, our energy woes will be no more. Smart meters will even cure the blind. The energy blind that is. Continue reading Smart meters: Truly a cure for energy blindness? July 2nd, 2010 | Category: energy, Energy Efficiency, Green Living, Smart Grid, Thinking Green |
One comment | Home Star is a legislative proposal designed to create jobs by providing incentives for residential energy efficiency improvements. The program will drive new private investment into the hard hit construction and manufacturing sectors, while saving consumers money on their energy bills. By building on state programs and existing industry capacity for the retrofits themselves as well as quality assurance, the program will be fast‐acting, in addition to increasing consumer awareness of residential energy efficiency. Continue reading How Has Senate Changed HOME STAR? A SHORT SUMMARY June 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Efficient energy use, energy, energy star, Home Star, Silver Star | Category: Government, Green Living, mississippi, Stimulus, Tax Incentives, Thinking Green |
Leave a comment | After nearly two weeks of intense competition, Mississippi State University (MSU) claimed top honors on May 27 in the second year of the EcoCAR competition, a three-year automotive engineering competition sponsored by DOE and General Motors Corporation (GM). Officially dubbed “EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge,” the competition invited university engineering students from across North America to re-engineer a GM-donated sport utility vehicle to achieve improved fuel economy and reduced emissions. Continue reading Mississippi State University Wins Year Two of the EcoCAR Competition June 2nd, 2010 | Category: Government, mississippi, Sustainability, Tax Incentives, Thinking Green, Transportation |
Leave a comment | We each have a reaction to uncertainty. Some find it exhilarating. Some find it terrifying. In all cases there is an element of stress. If you are a custom builder, you are intimately involved with managing stress-your own as well as the effects of your customer’s stress upon you. Continue reading Be an Educator Too! — Custom Building and Client Relations The Home Builders Association of Jackson will be offering courses for industry professionals to earn their NAHB Certified Green Professional Designation on December 7-9, 2009. The CGP designation consists of two courses, Green Building for Building Professionals and Business Management for Building Professionals. In order to receive the designation both courses must be completed. The courses will be taught at the HBAJ building in Ridgeland, MS by NAHB approved speaker Thomas Gotschall. Continue reading Certified Green Professional Designation Course- Ridgeland, MS November 11th, 2009 | Tags: Education | Category: Building Green, mississippi, Thinking Green |
Leave a comment | If you had an extra $1,000 dollars, what energy efficient improvement(s) would you make? Continue reading What Green/Energy Efficient Home Improvement Would You Spend $1,000 Compost is great for the garden because it improves the soil, which in turn supports healthier and more productive plants. Compost provides virtually all of the essential nutrients for healthy plant growth, and it almost always releases those nutrients over time to give plants a slow, steady, consistent intake of the elements essential for growth. Compost also improves the soil’s structure, making it easier for Continue reading Composting 101 April 21st, 2009 | Tags: green garden, green home | Category: Green Living, Thinking Green |
Leave a comment | Holding the purse strings means more than carrying around a nice hand bag. More and more todays women are making a greater percentage of the purchasing desicions and are in more control of the household budget. I read some interesting stats today from thedailygreen.com. Let’s do the numbers: Women account for 85% of all consumer Continue reading Marketing Green to Women Energy Savings In today’s struggling economy are the dollars our representatives voted to spend on the recovery being spent wisely? Do our leaders fully understand the philosophical shift that must take place in America if we are to truly shift our dependence on foreign oil? Will the waste continue? Dr. Dan Chiras is the Continue reading Economic Restoration or Do We Need More? |
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