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30
Jul
2008
Entire Neighborhoods Go Green
Posted by admin as Saving Money
At a time when the housing market remains in a slump, consumer demand is growing for energy-efficient homes that are kinder to the environment. And it’s not just individual homes that are going green. Increasingly, it’s entire neighborhoods.
With its mix of single-family, duplex and 4-unit buildings, organic farm, shared office space and common house, the Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm in southwest New Hampshire, is an earth-friendly cohousing community, where residents own their own homes but share common space.
Lono Hunter, an aspiring architect who spent years studying green building construction and design, moved to the eco-village in April Read the rest of this entry »
30
Jul
2008
Cities to offer low-interest loans for solar panels and other upgrades in homes and businesses
Posted by admin as Solar
Berkeley and Palm Desert may be poles apart when it comes to politics. But the two cities are pioneering a new path to solar energy.
Pushed by these unlikely municipal bedfellows, California on Monday enacted a law that allows cities and counties to make low-interest loans to homeowners and businesses to install solar panels, high-efficiency air conditioners and other energy-saving improvements.
Participants can pay back the loans over decades through Read the rest of this entry »
26
Jul
2008
The solar land rush - read this great article now
Posted by admin as Solar
Here is a fantastic article that details the current and future state of solar power development. It was written by Todd Woody. Here is a paragraph and a link to the whole article. Highly recommend you read the whole article.
“”The race has barely begun - finished plants are years away - but it’s blazing fastest in the Mojave, where the federal government controls immense stretches of some of the world’s best solar real estate right next to the nation’s biggest electricity markets. Just 20 months ago only five applications for solar sites had been filed with the BLM in the California Mojave. Today 104 claims have been received for nearly a million acres of land, representing a theoretical 60 gigawatts of electricity. (The entire state of California currently consumes 33 gigawatts annually.)”" Click below to finish reading
http://greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/15/the-solar-land-rush/