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How to buy a backyard wind turbine
Five years ago, mostly just off-grid types put up wind turbines in their backyards, but today, thanks to new products, big subsidies and sinking costs, the market for grid-tied small wind is exploding.For many- according to the Pike Research report "Small Wind Power"-, small wind is less expensive than ...
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2 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
The business of remade, redesigned, refashioned fashion
Despite lacking a unified name- some call it redesigned fashion, others refashioned fashion, repurposed clothing, restructured design, etc- it's a fashion genre that's creeping into the mainstream. British Vogue calls it the "new movement in recycled fashion", though in many ways it's been around since we began ...
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1 month ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
Backyard wind for all: iPhone apps & hardware store turbines
Experts on both sides of the Atlantic are predicting rapid growth in the market for backyard wind turbines in the coming decade.Already, the market is hot. In the US, the small wind sector grew by 78% in 2008. British small wind manufacturers told reuters that sales have tripled in ...
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2 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff / cvos user comments
How Tesla wants to make the electric car everyone's reality
It's a startup in an industry where no one really starts up. It's a car company that started up with not just an electric car, but a high-end electric sportscar . Tesla Motors has been making waves since it was founded back in 2003, but lately talk has been ...
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5 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
Road midgets: DIY NEVs and solar golf carts
There are compact cars and subcompacts and minis and superminis, but even smaller and lighter yet are the NEVs or LEVs. Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEVs) or Low Speed Vehicles (LSVs) are defined as vehicles capable of reaching speeds of 20mph, but not above 25mph.It's a relatively new vehicle ...
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6 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 2 comments
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The new American Dream according to a 21st Century farmer
It's difficult to pin a label on North Carolina's Tim Toben. His
understated appearance- the several times we met with him he was clad
in jeans and sneakers- belies the power he wields, at least in this
part of the country. A few of his past and current ...
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4 months, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Climate control for sidewalks: making stores close the door
A loophole exists in our global warming awareness. As most of us are are investing in energy saving appliances and insulating our homes to cut the need for climate control, there's a large segment of our communities that still find it acceptable to run the air conditioning or heating ...
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8 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff / nicolas.boullosa staff 2 comments
Where trains beat planes: Spain's high-speed rail
Build it and they will come. This could be the lesson Spain's high-speed rail service offers America (recently U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited Spain on a fact-finding mission, and to ride the ultra-fast rails).Spain's slow trains and frequent fliersWhile it's easy to discount ...
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9 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Jetter l'énergie par les portes
encourager les magasins à fermer la porte.
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8 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 2 comments
How Barcelona is slowly becoming a cyclist's city
While only 3.5% of Spaniards cycle every day, in one year- 2007- daily use in Barcelona jumped by 81%. Most would credit this startling rise to the success of the city's bikesharing program, Bicing, which was implemented that same year, but there are other factors at play.
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9 months, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments