Solar roof skins are roofs which are covered with enough solar panels to power the entire house. Not only are they environmentally friendly, they also help save money by drastically lowering your electricity bill, if not provide you with independence from conventional energy sources.Solar roof skins convert sunlight captured by the panels into energy to ...
Category Archives: Going Green
Choosing the Right Architect for Green Design
If you are planning to turn your new house green, looking for the right architect may not be an easy task. This is because the field of green designs in architecture is still a new area that not many architects are familiar with. An architect would need many years of experience, familiarity with the area ...
Installing Solar Powered Lights
Solar powered lights work best outside where they can get enough sunlight to convert into energy for them to light up. Not only are they environmentally friendly, they are also safe, affordable and a great way to light up your landscape. Solar powered lights are easy to install as they do not need any special ...
Renewable Energy Chargers: A Greener Alternative to Charging your Electronic Gadgets
There\'s no running from it; our daily routines involve gadgets ranging from calculators, to cell phones, to laptop. All of which require to be powered before they can be used. Here are some alternative ways to recharging your gadgets for the environmentally-conscious: Solar EnergyTo date, solar energy is probably the most widely used renewable energy used ...
Recycling your Unwanted Electronic Gadgets
When it comes to technology, we all know what\'s new today becomes old news tomorrow. For the tech enthusiasts, the latest technology is a must-have. But what happens to yesterday\'s technology? Are they left lying around the house waiting to decompose? Here are a few ways of how you can recycle your unwanted electronic gadgets ...
Maintaining your Solar Hot Water Panels
A solar hot water panels need to be maintained properly so that it can function according to its specification. Normally it is fixed in a certain area of your house and the only moving part is its pump. Nowadays, many of the solar panel parts are designed to be strong using unbreakable materials thus it ...
Creating a Portable Solar Panel System
Portable solar panel systems are great for outdoor trips where there are no wall sockets but plenty of sunlight to spare. The energy generated from these systems can be used to power electrical gadgets such as laptops, portable televisions, radios, and lamps. Here is how you can make one on your own for your next ...
Being Energy Efficient At Home
Astounded by the charges in your bills every month? It\'s indeed a fact that comfort comes at a price but you need not succumb to paying accelerating costs when there\'re alternatives in reducing your cash outflow. Being energy efficient is possible for every type of homes, whether a single- or multi-family dwelling, or mobile home.Regardless ...
Maintaining your Solar Water Heating
The solar water heating system captures the sun\'s energy for heating up the water that you can use for your daily house usage. There are two types of solar water heating systems namely active or passive. No matter what type of system that you use, with proper maintenance, the system will be able to last ...
Maintaining your Solar Hot Water Heater
Recycling Metal
In the United States alone, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), recycling of scrap metals reaches up to 150 million metric tons for a year which includes 85 million tons of iron and steel, 5.5 million tons of aluminum, 1.8 million tons of copper, 2 million tons of stainless steel, 1.2 million ...
Saving Water around Your Home
Water is precious because we cannot live without it. So why not step up the effort in serious water conservation which also saves money spent on bills?Here are some pointers you can take to achieve these objectives:Take short showersShower uses much less water than a bathtub. If you use a bucket instead, fill it with ...
Saving energy for your Home
In order to improve the energy efficiency of your home, you can do the plugging method which is also known as air sealing of areas in your house where air can get in or get out easily. This is the most important first steps to make when weatherizing your house for increasing its energy efficiency. ...
Saving energy for Furnaces
It does not matter if you are using furnaces running on fuel oil, propane, or natural gas because whatever the source is the end results is you create heat with a flame. Every time the furnace is turned on, the source will be used and furthermore the house heat increases with the furnace being turned ...
Saving energy for Gardening
Everywhere around the world, people are trying to come up with a lot of energy saving ideas for gardening work such as to conserve water and also reducing other kinds of energy that are being used when you are doing gardening work. In order to save energy for gardening, below are some of the things ...
