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Coinciding with this year’s Earth Day, HomeGain is doing its part to raise green awareness in the real estate community with it’s Green Real Estate Campaign, a multi-facted initiative:
1. In partnership with Arborday.org, HomeGain will pay to plant [...]
Have an old cell phone (or 10?) sitting in a box somewhere? You want to throw them away but you’re concerned about the impact on the environment (good for you). Well, here’s your chance to be environmentally friendly and make some money in the process.
Gazelle.com will buy your gadgets. That’s right. They’ll pay you green [...]
Scientists at the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) think they can create more electricity from the wind than the traditional windmills — by using power kites. A recent test of a 10 square meter kite generated 10 kilowatts, enough to power 10 homes.
These wind catchers hope to send a bunch of kites called the Laddermill [...]
Did you know you can get federal and state tax credits, loans and grants for installing solar and other renewable energy systems in your home or business?
Dsire offers a comprehensive state by state list of incentives available to homeowners, builders and developers, along with contact information. There are also programs offered by local utilitites and [...]
H3 by GM
The Neighborhood Electric Car (NEV) may be coming to your town soon. These low speed electric cars (25-35 mph) are super energy efficient and practical for small towns and planned communities where the posted speed limits are 35-45 mph. They are permitted in 40 states. Planned communities like Celebration, Florida have NEV [...]
Park(ing) Day is a global event, held in San Francisco, where “artists, activists and citizens collaborate” to create temporary public parks. It is the brainchild of REBAR.
REBAR is a collaborative group of creators, designers and activists based in San Francisco. Rebar’s work ranges broadly in scale, scope and context, and therefore belies discrete categorization. It [...]
The earth laughs in flowers — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guerilla gardening is gardening on vacant land, typically an empty city lot, without the owner’s permission. Whether planting flowers, shrubs or a vegetable patch, the purpose is to create beauty and put neglected land to some use for the community. Sorta like a “people’s eminent domain”.
It [...]
