2004-06-10
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY
Living Green | In keeping with my objectives of speaking to real options instead of merly ranking on the folks presently ruining ..er, running the planet here's a picth on a group that does something about more ecologically sensible options | The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association [NESEA] maintains an easy to maneuver website providing more than adequate starter info about making a transition between dependence on the power grid, polluting petrochemicals, or nukes and renewable energy resources for everyday energy production |
The site maintainers help keep current on recent developments, links to sustainable and ongoing practical energy production, and by provding stories on ordinary people who make use of the technology that NESEA publicizes |
A good starting point in anyone's efforts at going independednt from the oil cartels -be they foreign or domestic |
solar electric can be practical | Lest you suffer from the illusion that converting to solar electrical home power is not affordable in northern climes, it may be helpful to note that as far back as the mid-1970s research conducted at then Clarkson College [now Clarkson University found that solar heating was cost comparable with an all electric house [then the most costly heating option]. That research assumed a 60% cloud cover during the year |
more sustainable energy sources | Sustainable Building Handbook From Texas comes this incredibly valuable sourcebook on sustainable energy and building construction techniques | The purpose of the Sourcebook is to offer the practical information needed to implement the building practices promoted by the Green Building Program. The Sourcebook addresses a wide range of options available to architects, builders, and homeowners in seeking to create sustainable buildings | I would like to see more on how to convince local building and zoning inspectors that these practices do, indeed, meet proper building code specifications, and there is some of that, I just would have liked more |
The Center for Resourceful Building Technology is dedicated to promoting environmentally responsible construction practices. It works as both catalyst and facilitator to encourage building technologies which realize an efficient and sustainable use of resources |
...and get your kids in on the action | You can start by buying some mini-solar generation kits | Spend a couple of dollars on one of these inexpensive solar generators, [designed to power a CD player or an MP3 player] from Silicon Solar and you may find that little rasta boy or gangsta girl that moved into your kid's bedroom some months ago has found a reason for seeing that science is def! [Okay, I have about used up my rap argot vocablulary, but I hope you get the point] Get the kids involved in this too | It is, after all their future that these technologies are going to help sustain |
portions of this section first published 09 may 2002 and subsequently undated
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Living Green | In keeping with my objectives of speaking to real options instead of merly ranking on the folks presently ruining ..er, running the planet here's a picth on a group that does something about more ecologically sensible options | The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association [NESEA] maintains an easy to maneuver website providing more than adequate starter info about making a transition between dependence on the power grid, polluting petrochemicals, or nukes and renewable energy resources for everyday energy production |
The site maintainers help keep current on recent developments, links to sustainable and ongoing practical energy production, and by provding stories on ordinary people who make use of the technology that NESEA publicizes |
A good starting point in anyone's efforts at going independednt from the oil cartels -be they foreign or domestic |
solar electric can be practical | Lest you suffer from the illusion that converting to solar electrical home power is not affordable in northern climes, it may be helpful to note that as far back as the mid-1970s research conducted at then Clarkson College [now Clarkson University found that solar heating was cost comparable with an all electric house [then the most costly heating option]. That research assumed a 60% cloud cover during the year |
more sustainable energy sources | Sustainable Building Handbook From Texas comes this incredibly valuable sourcebook on sustainable energy and building construction techniques | The purpose of the Sourcebook is to offer the practical information needed to implement the building practices promoted by the Green Building Program. The Sourcebook addresses a wide range of options available to architects, builders, and homeowners in seeking to create sustainable buildings | I would like to see more on how to convince local building and zoning inspectors that these practices do, indeed, meet proper building code specifications, and there is some of that, I just would have liked more |
The Center for Resourceful Building Technology is dedicated to promoting environmentally responsible construction practices. It works as both catalyst and facilitator to encourage building technologies which realize an efficient and sustainable use of resources |
...and get your kids in on the action | You can start by buying some mini-solar generation kits | Spend a couple of dollars on one of these inexpensive solar generators, [designed to power a CD player or an MP3 player] from Silicon Solar and you may find that little rasta boy or gangsta girl that moved into your kid's bedroom some months ago has found a reason for seeing that science is def! [Okay, I have about used up my rap argot vocablulary, but I hope you get the point] Get the kids involved in this too | It is, after all their future that these technologies are going to help sustain |
portions of this section first published 09 may 2002 and subsequently undated
¶ 23:02
