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1. My family only owns one car, which is fairly fuel efficient. This has forced me to plan my errands better. Helps me buy less too, since I can’t go out and spontaneously shop.
2. I walk my daughter to preschool. It’s only a few blocks, but it amazes other parents that I walk it. I know from watching my neighbors drive their kids to school that the time difference is about a minute. We left at the same time once, so I got a really good feel for that. Continue reading →
I’m really impressed. If Nanosolar can pull this one off… wow! Talk about an improvement in the availablity of solar power!
They’re working on a printed solar panel technology. They’re building a plant right now that could produce 430 megawatts of solar cells annually… compare that to current solar panel production in the United States of 153 megawatts. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
You can read a variety of news reports on their site. Here’s a quote I liked from one of the stories, which appeared in Mercury News: Continue reading →
I’ve decided to add the Blogging Chicks blogroll to this site. It looks like a great group of blogs and should provide some interesting reading, if not always on the topic of this site.
I love seeing people get into the fight against global warming. Richard Branson, the British billionaire, is offering a $25 million prize to anyone who can come up with a nonpolluting solution to global warming. The solution needs to remove at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.
I spotted this offer over on Slashdot, and so had to go to the original article to see what it said.
Branson is working quite hard on this topic, and dedicating some serious money to the cause. Good to see from someone with that kind of money. It’s not just the $25 million reward. It’s the $3 billion he has pledged to help fight global warming. That’s dedication, even from a billionaire.
I love watching these kinds of contests. It may well take more than the $25 million dollar prize is worth to come up with a solution, but this kind of thing really spurs a lot of people to make efforts they might not otherwise. Just look at the people who competed for the X Prize.
Is it possible that someone will come up with a solution? Certainly not immediately. At best it will take years. But just the incentive to get people to investigate the options is a wonderful thing.
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Why is it that when women talk about being a stay at home mother, many describe themselves as being “just” a stay at home mom? I’ve always felt that there’s nothing so simple about it. As a stay at home mom you have the power to make a big difference for your family or even for others.
I like to think about the environment, for example. There are plenty of things you can do around the home to make sure that your family lives in a more environmentally friendly way. Some of it can even save money, which is often near and dear to the stay at home mother’s heart.
You’re always home, so that probably means you’re always using some electricity. But at some times of the year you can cut down on your electricity usage by something as simple as opening the blinds during the day and letting the sun light the house. This may not work in the dead of winter or when it’s so hot during the summer that you’d have to turn on the air conditioning, but it can be effective. Continue reading →