Getting Green Off The Grid

A tour of houses and businesses already using alternative energies, demonstrating how they integrated them into existing structures.
Southern Nevada Solar Home Tour - Let’s Learn How To Green Our Classic Vintage Las Vegas Homes

The Southern Nevada Solar Home Tour will include homes, schools and businesses across the valley featuring examples of renewable energy systems, energy […]

The more people see these on buildings, the more interest they’ll have in them. Especially when business owners start to think of them in a competitive fashion.
Convention center to shine with solar power

The panels will help supply power to the building, which was completed in 2006. How much of a dent that […]

I love stories like this, it shows how inexpensive it can be to reduce your energy usage enough to not worry about the grid. However, the Canadian government requires them to be on the grid for safety reasons. Of course, just because you have to be attached doesn’t mean you have to use […]

Continuing to show that the northern states can make it work!
In Chicago, Tinted Green

Though Ms. Whitehead and Mr. Elniski, who is also an artist, spent $40,000 last year to buy and install the wind turbines (wildly expensive retrofits and mishaps included), they estimate that they will probably save only about $500 annually in energy costs, […]

TheStar.com | Earth Hour | Toronto man builds environmental dream house
I don’t know about drinking that run-off water though.

Twelve years ago, Rolf Paloheimo took his family off the grid, disconnected them from city water and moved them into Toronto’s first Healthy House – a downtown home that looks more like a mad scientist’s dream house […]

Combining gaming technology with green goals. I like it.
IBM Press room - 2008-02-15 IBM launches PowerUp, a new free 3D multiplayer virtual science game for the classroom - United States

IBM is launching a free multiplayer online game, PowerUp (www.powerupthegame.org), challenging teenagers to help save the planet “Helios” from ecological disaster. The game is part […]

How can we appreciate and treasure nature if we’re visiting it less and less?
Scoutmaster: Nature Based Recreation in Decline?

In conclusion, all major lines of evidence point to an ongoing and fundamental shift away from nature-based recreation.

Another story of someone making it off the grid.
MY TURN: Yes, Solar Power Works DOES Work Here : Letters : Kitsap Sun

I have 16 panels, 12 batteries and an inverter that power my home. My personal “power company” has paid for itself several times over. I have also tried using wind power, but the area […]

Using solar power on a farm makes a lot of sense. There’s a lot of space, and they depend on the sun anyway for their crops.
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He also said he was happy to report the installation led to no leaks in the roof and the building is lot cooler inside.
He said he […]

If you’re looking to help on an organic farm on a volunteer basis, here’s a good place to start.
What Is WWOOF?

WWOOF-USA facilitates volunteering on an organic farms. The program is available to anyone more than 18 years of age - urbanites, professionals, students, families, farmers, gardeners, or people who have never touched soil in […]