Tag: ENERGYEFFICIENT

Your hybrid car should help reduce your carbon footprint, but what about all the energy you waste when you come home and turn on the lights? Apparently, GE's new hybrid lightbulb can help control your energy usage, without sacrificing your late-night lighting. As Engadget explains, GE's forthcoming product is essentially two lightbulbs in one. At first glance, it looks like any other compact ...

Despite the twin facts that most everything closes at 7 p.m. and no one who lives there is ever, ever happy, Paris, for some reason, is still known as the 'City of Lights.' [Ed. Note: We feel like we have to say this every time Amar tackles Paris. He lives there. He is grumpy.] Yet, when all the bars close at midnight, and everyone goes home to the warm bed of someone other than their wife, one ...

As the world continues to partake in the effort to avoid environmental disaster, individual consumer behavior has become increasingly important -- especially when it comes to energy consumption. With this in mind, Belkin has just introduced a new line of gadgets to help you kilowatt-hour counters out there to be a little more vigilant about consumption. Included among the lineup of Belkin ...

We've lectured you before about unplugging chargers to conserve electricity. It's pretty much common knowledge at this point that, even when turned off, our gadgets consume energy. Design student Conor Klein's solution was the Outlet Regulator, which detects when a cell phone is fully charged and then physically jettisons it from the power source. AT&T has a less perfect, but slightly more ...

Retired U.S. Army General and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark has upped the ante in the ongoing national discourse on clean energy. Speaking before auto industry professionals and suppliers at a Detroit conference last week, Clark characterized the transition to electric cars as crucial to both environmental friendliness and, more surprisingly, national security. Noting the ...

One of the biggest challenges in greening our cities lies in reducing the energy consumption of existing buildings. Newer constructions are built with efficiency in mind, but older buildings (such as the iconic Empire State Building) were erected without even a passing thought to carbon emissions. The Clinton Climate Initiative has been working with cities around the world to implement large ...

An unlikely trio of cities can lay claim to the United States' most energy-efficient buildings, thanks to a report in USA Today. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston have been named by the EPA as having the most efficient buildings in the U.S., with annual energy savings of $87.2 million, $83.8 million, and $70.6 million, respectively. While we would love to jump on the bandwagon and slap ...

Those old-school incandescent bulbs you grew up with are on their way out, deemed too inefficient for a continued life in today's eco-friendly society. But their replacements, compact flourescent (CFL), have their own share of issues. Some people find that the next-gen bulbs give them headaches, and since each one contains a bit of mercury they aren't exactly green themselves. For that reason, ...

Oh sure, Rock Port, Missouri managed to snag the title of being "100% wind powered," but Texas' new plan will make the Show Me state's gusty initiatives look awfully weak. Officials at the Public Utility Commission recently okayed a plan to "build billions of dollars worth of new transmission lines to bring pollution-free energy from West Texas to urban areas." The ginormous Lone Star state is ...