Greening our Cities: Start with the Roads
Worldwide, the amount of paved and unpaved road is estimated to be over 100 million km – that’s more than enough to drive all the way to the moon and back.
Financing Your Green Home
For those consumers who are looking to green their homes, for financial or environmental reasons, banks have seen an opportunity.
Comparing Apples and… Kilowatts
A typical electricity bill will tell you the number of kilowatt-hours that you used during the billing period (or an estimate of that number, based on previous patterns of usage), along with a rate. But what does that really mean?
Financing Retrofits: Show Me the Money!
To encourage homeowners to retrofit their homes for energy savings is a daunting task. The up-front costs of home energy retrofits are large, whether that be a new furnace, insulation replacement, or draft-proofing.
Green Building Materials, and the Evolution of Normal
Despite the idea that the twenty-first century is seeing a green building revolution, many traditional building materials were inherently green, as most homes were built with locally sourced materials without energy intensive manufacturing methods.