Articles tagged “Cooling”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

An Awesome AC Tip, Eco-Board Games and Brain Food By Jessica Root IN Home & Garden Jul 29 2008 Use trees to increase your air conditioner's energy efficiency. Play Eco-Othello and Eco-Jenga in Japan. Get smart with the help of healthy brain foods. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Greensburg Glossary: Solar Energy By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 29 2008 Simply put, solar energy is the light and heat provided by the sun, sitting up there some 93 million miles away. In contrast, renewable energy resources ? such as wind and solar energy ? are constantly replenished and will never run out. ?Applications for solar power are broad and include areas like architecture,... + READ MORE

Five Super Solar Products By Natalie Cook IN Home & Garden Jul 26 2008 On Greenovate, Chris Prelitz plans to turn his Laguna Beach, California home into a model solar power residence. A small solar panel powers a fan which keeps your noggin feeling breezy on the summers hottest days. + READ MORE

Little, Little Boxes By Megan Cohen IN Home & Garden Jul 25 2008 Micro-dwellings reduce the residents' ecological footprints to the tiniest possible minimum. The next time you're at a moment when moving houses is an option, think about the eco-impact of heading to a new place that has one or two bedrooms fewer than your current residence, or giving up some inches and slimming down to... + READ MORE

Where Do Hurricanes Come From? By Eric Leech IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 25 2008 Once a long time ago in Greece, hurricanes and violent storms were thought to come from the Hecatoncheires. It involves the warm moist air from the ocean, which naturally rises upward, much the same as it does in your home when you are trying to heat in the winter. This transference of warm air into the sky creates a low... + READ MORE

Don't Sweat It, Walkers and Bikers! By Leslie Billera IN Food & Health Jul 18 2008 You're thinking about biking or walking to work to cut back on crazy gas prices and carbon emissions: great idea! The only thing standing in your way? The sweat box you'll be upon arrival! + READ MORE

Green Your Summer: 7 Unusual Tips By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jul 10 2008 Now that we've launched our guide for How to Go Green: Summer, we got to thinking: what other kinds of green summer fun can we have? Here are some tips that range from fun to challenging to just plain wacky. + READ MORE

Renovation Nation Episode: Philadelphia: Solar Chimney By Team Planet Green IN Renovation Nation Jun 19 2008 Host Steve Thomas nibbles on a kitchen counter made of cashews, checks out a chimney used for cooling, and visits an old rag factory that's being transformed into a stunning, solar powered, eleven unit complex. Check out the Planet Green... + READ MORE

Get Your Children Cooking: Emma's Rhubarb Pie By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jun 16 2008 As my mother has said in many posts, it's an important thing to teach your children how to cook. Cooking with your kids means spending quality time together, teaching them an important skill, and it can even make you enjoy the task more. To this day, every time I cook, I ask my mother to help me, even if I don't need the help. It always takes us twice as long as it would alone, but we always have fun, and we always get something delicious at the end. My brother, Hugh, spent his first two years of university cooking dinner almost every night ? he can now cook up any Thai or Indian treat, from a recipe or from his head. I, on the other hand, prefer to bake. + READ MORE

Downsize Your Home! By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 2 2008 While most homeowners are looking to expand their properties, on Renovation Nation, you'll see that the best thing you can do to go green during home repairs or renovations is to downsize whenever and wherever possible. If you've got one or two rooms in your home that hardly ever get used, downsize your home. + READ MORE

Quick Green Tips From 0 to 60 Dollars By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Apr 28 2008 While the homeowners on Renovation Nation spend thousands of dollars greening their houses from top to bottom, there are plenty of eco-friendly changes you can make in your own home without making a huge dent in your household budget. + READ MORE

Calculate Your Carbon Emissions Using Localized Data By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Mar 11 2008 Another day, another carbon calculator. The CoolClimate Calculator, on the other hand, factors where you live, since local and regional climate can have an impact on how much heating and cooling you do in your home, in addition to how many miles you fly each year, how much you drive, and what foods you eat. + READ MORE

Save Energy With Awnings By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Mar 10 2008 A hundred years ago, awnings were common on hotels, office buildings, and the grandest of houses, for a very good reason: they shaded the window and kept the heat of the sun out. + READ MORE

Get Tax Credits for Going Green By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 6 2008 Although most of us cringe at the thought of tax season, Uncle Sam may look favorably upon you if you've made energy-saving improvements to your home within the past two years. New energy-efficient windows, added ceiling insulation, and a new high-efficiency air conditioner or water heater can all add up to a... + READ MORE

Choose an Energy-Efficient Power Supply By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Feb 13 2008 While power-supply units (PSUs) have not traditionally been power savers, a 2006 white paper by two Google data-center designers noted that redesigning industry-standard PSUs could yield potentially huge energy savings. Many PSUs currently max out at only 60 percent, a result of their inefficiency in converting... + READ MORE

Build a Solar Food Dehydrator By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 12 2008 Eco Bites has the goods on building an inexpensive solar-powered food-preservation machine of your very own. Vegetables should be dry and brittle. ::Ecobites.com Difficulty level: EasyTip: Make sure your food is cool before you store it, because condensation build-up can result in mold. + READ MORE

Get Recession-Ready: Conduct a Home Energy Audit By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Feb 5 2008 As the evidence that going green saves you green continues to mount, there has never been a better time to improve the efficiency of your home's energy systems.Depending on what you told it-how long you're willing to wait for return on investment, what your current energy costs are-the calculator can recommend some... + READ MORE

Build a USB-Powered Cooling Fan By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Jan 28 2008 Learn how to hack a broken CD- or DVD-ROM drive-plus that transparent CD you get when you buy a spindle of discs-into a USB-powered cooling fan for your laptop or desktop PC. ::Instructables Difficulty level: Advanced + READ MORE

Take Back Your Post-Holiday Fridge (Part II) By Kelly Rossiter IN Home & Garden Dec 28 2007 Collin's post about what to remove from your refrigerator got me thinking. Mix your leftover turkey and mashed potatoes with some onion, coat the mixture in egg and bread crumbs, and make turkey croquettes. + READ MORE

Take Back Your Post-Holiday Fridge (Part I) By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Dec 27 2007 Fun and festive as the holidays are, they have an uncanny knack for adding extra stuff to our lives. Many raw fruits and vegetables like squash, root vegetables, apples, and onions don't need the sanctuary of the crisper or even the low temperatures of the fridge to remain fresh. + READ MORE