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Olympic Games medal in energy efficiency
By Harriet Blake Green Right Now Vancouver scored highly as an Olympic venue despite weather concerns. Equally impressive, the Winter Games also scored well in terms of their energy efficiency....
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Steven Chu: Making buildings energy efficient ‘is truly low hanging fruit’
(In this piece, reprinted from a collection of essays assembled by the World Economic Forum, a Switzerland-based non-profit commited to improving the state of the world, U.S. Secretary of Energy argues...
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Be part of the solution: Chipping away at coal
By Melissa Segrest Green Right Now Coal-fired power plant (Photo: Braen Gunem/Dreamstime.) Sitting in a heap atop the list of climate change offenders is coal. Coal-burning power plants account for 20...
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Get your ducts in a row
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now You can hear them rattle in the winter, and rumble in the summer. Whether they’re underfoot or overhead in the attic, these unseen monsters can really make a...
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Furniture Row finds cost savings with Cree LED lighting
From Green Right Now Reports Who says it too expensive to change out the bulbs? Cree LEDs are more energy efficient and cooler than the halogens they're replacing. (Photo: Cree.) Not the Furniture Row...
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Introduction to LEDs: What you need to know
This LED uses just 6 watts. From Green Right Now Reports As with other technologies, advances in lighting just keep coming. Now that you’re somewhat comfortable with CFL — compact fluorescent lamp —...
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ThinkEco introduces smart outlet at Consumer Electronics Show
The modlet is expected to pay for itself through energy savings. From Green Right Now Reports ThinkEco, Inc. is debuting the first wirelessly communicating intelligent outlet at the Consumer...
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Push back progress on light bulbs? Not a bright idea
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Rep. Joe Barton’s last bright idea – to apologize to BP for having to make reparations for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – earned him national ridicule. His...
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Battle of the Buildings pits offices, schools and skyscrapers in contest to...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Building new green buildings can be exciting. But taking old buildings, like a giant college dormitory built in 1965, and making them as energy efficient as they can...
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Addressing climate change would save money
Missing the Point on Climate Andrew Winston The media seems intent on giving climate skeptics much more than equal time. On Monday, the New York Times printed a cover story about the last arrow in the...
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Five hopeful signs that we could save our planet if we really want to
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Other than the 2012 Olympics, it’s been a discouraging hot, drought-y month this July. Greenland ice sheets are melting ominously. India plunged into darkness and...
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LED Christmas lights can save energy and aggravation
By Bill Sullivan Green Right Now If you’ve been in the business of shopping for holiday lighting the past few years, you’ve probably noted some not-so-subtle changes in the offerings at your local...
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