EcoMetro

According to a post from fellow EcoMetro blogger Scott Thomsen, a whopping 7 percent of my electricity use comes from items I'm not even using. For someone who bores his friends talking about clean coal and how it isn't really clean that's bad. So in an effort to find the worst phantom power...

My wife and I just bought a new home. Needless to say, because of the way I earn my living, the energy use of perspective places was at the top of my list of priorities. If a home didn't have double-paned windows, an efficient heating system and good insulation, I didn't even want to look at...

Google is investing in clean energy again. This time, instead of buying solar panels to power their operations, or working to make their data centers more energy efficient, they're plowing millions of dollars into the development of clean energy. The goal is to create 1 gigawatt (GW) of electricity...

Ever wondered where your power company gets its power? Or maybe you've driven past a large industrial "park" on your way to work every day for years and wondered what exactly it's been spewing in those great globs of smoke and steam. I've just found a terrific tool that can help...

I was planning a post today about testimony given by the director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office on methods of reducing carbon emissions. I was struggling though with how to tie it to local issues. After all, a discussion on federal legislation doesn't feel like something you can...

Just a quick post today to draw your attention to a very cool energy tool created by Sightline , Cascadia's sustainability think tank. The Sightline Institute examines issues facing the Cascadia region and starts discussions (largely via their blog) about sustainable solutions and ways to make and...

I'm a pretty committed environmentalist which leads me to consider the affects on the environment of most every action I take. Yes, sometimes I do things that I know are not particularly good (like drive). But I always consider what I am about to do which is a step I'd like to try and convince...

I recently got home from a month-long trip to Bali in Indonesia. While traveling around, I was struck time and again by the relationship between the people and their environment and how different it is from ours. Bali is very much a part of a developing nation where the government and the people don't...

No one thing drives our world more than energy. Energy moves us from Point A to Point B, lights the way there, lets us get the job done once we get there, makes it possible to listen to music and cook dinner when we get back at the end of the day and much, much more. Each day we find new ways to consume...