Tag: "home"
What’s So “Smart” About a Smart Home?
SmartHome Cleveland was designed to create a vision for sustainable technologies and practices that are available right now to people who are thinking about building or renovating their homes.
Post on Nov 28, 2011 by George Viebranz from QUEST Ohio
What Makes Us Conserve Energy? 6 Lessons from the Smart Grid
Smart meters are providing consumers with hourly and daily energy use information. But does it inspire conservation?
Post on Oct 07, 2011 by Lauren Sommer
Try These at Home: 2 Sure-fire Science Demo Classics
Quick how-to's to make your own non-newtonian matter; float a ball in mid-air indefinitely; pronounce "Bernoulli."
Post on Sep 08, 2009 by Christopher Smallwood
Blowing up the House for Energy Efficiency
How much air is your house leaking? Are you unknowingly slurping in dirty air from your garage and attic? Perhaps a blower door test can help you find out.
Post on Aug 26, 2009 by Jim Gunshinan
Insulate Your &@!*% Attic Hatch, Now!
I didn't intend to write about cursing here, but since I am in this so deep now, then damn it, I may as well connect the topic to some cutting edge scientific research. You got a problem with that?
Post on Aug 07, 2009 by Jim Gunshinan
Weatherization Gets Down to Business
Home energy blogger Jim Gunshinan sends in his post from the 2009 National Weatherization Training Conference, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Post on Jul 24, 2009 by Jim Gunshinan
Tweeting for Energy Efficiency
Are you using Twitter or other social media as a way to promote progressive causes like energy efficiency?
Post on Jun 26, 2009 by Jim Gunshinan
LEED or Get Out of the Way
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) has become so popular and well known that many cities now require that new municipal buildings be built to LEED standards. But do these buildings actually save energy?
Post on May 15, 2009 by Jim Gunshinan
Turning Lemons Into Energy Efficient Homes
While new housing is stalled in the United States, there is lots of funding-in the billions of dollars-on the way for weatherization, residential energy efficiency, and renewable energy through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Post on May 01, 2009 by Jim Gunshinan
Have the Energy Munchies? Curb your "Snackwell Effect"
Stanley Jevons first described this conundrum in 1865, when he observed that new efficient steam engines decreased coal consumption, which led to a drop in coal prices. But the lower prices meant that more people could afford to use coal, and so coal consumption increased.
Post on Apr 21, 2009 by Jim Gunshinan
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