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So I saw An Inconvenient Truth this past Friday. It was quite good. Informative, entertaining, and quite shocking. I highly recommend going to see it.
A lot of what was covered, I studied in college. That was ten years ago, it was convincing then, and the evidence has simply been mounting since […]

I’ve only recently heard about e-bikes, and surprisingly, I don’t see a lot of information about them online. In essence, they are bikes with an electric motor and battery attached. As I understand it, they are usually charged by plugging into the wall, and then can provide extra power (such as when climbing […]

As I discussed before, I recently switched to Mass Electric’s GreenUp plan, essentially purchasing 50% wind and 50% small hydro for all my electrical usage. I just received the first bill for a full month, so here’s the breakdown:

Usage: 1033 KWH (Yes, I use a lot of electricity)
Delivery Charges: @ $0.04977/KWH = $51.41
Generation Charges: […]

So you’re taking a nice, hot, shower. Water comes from the hot water heater’s tank (or just straight through a tankless water heater perhaps), hits you, sloshes around the tub, and heads down the drain.
At the same time, the water heater needs to pull in unheated water to heat it to either replace what […]

If you live in Massachusetts, as I do, and are in an area serviced by Massachusetts Electric, you have some fantastically easy options for swapping out your current dirty and polluting electricity for some that’s clean and environmentally friendly. Mass Electric has a program called GreenUp, which allows you to choose one of a […]

One quick and easy way to save a little energy and a little water at the same time is to look at efficient showerheads for the bathroom. Metaefficient has an entire section devoted to showerheads, and they seem to usually run at between 1.0 and 2.0 gallons per minute. Apparently, non-conserving showerheads use […]