Posts Tagged ‘solar’

To change things up a bit, I decided that this week, I would look for a service-based green business.

Clean Currents LLC is a clean energy broker, which serves in a number of areas including DC. This company was started to protect the environment, improve efficiency, and most of all, fight global warming. …

Virginia is for (Energy-Efficiency) Lovers

As promised, I’m continuing my coverage of the initiatives that the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia are undertaking to help residents green their dwellings without de-greening their wallets. Covering the District last week, I cross the bridge to Virginia this week… and the state line to Maryland next. (Note: these are in no particular order, so please put any state pride aside).

The District Department of the Environment is on the verge of entering an agreement to buy 50% of its electricity supply from renewable sources. The three-year contract represents a five-fold increase in the amount of renewable electricity purchased by the District. 

The sources of renewable energy will include wind, geothermal, solar and hydroelectric. This purchase will increase investment in new energy technologies and will greatly reduce the overall carbon footprint of the …

If you read our article about Google’s DC offices, you probably saw that Google has a solar water heater on display.  The solar water heater came from Jimmy Carter’s White House.

Carter installed the solar water heater at the White House in 1979.  Carter wanted to reduce the U.S.’s dependence on foreign oil.

“A generation from now, this solar water heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just …