Energy Conservation

Our world is starting to show the effects of climate change, permafrost is thawing, trees are flowering earlier, snow covers, ... heating and air conditioning ventilation, radiant barriers, attic ventilation and to ensure all HVAC ... their clients with a full evaluation of heating and air conditioning systems, appliances, and existing [more...]

Date: 2007-08-14 23:35:13
Blog: A Green Earth...

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No Impact/Low Impact Folks Got My Wheels Turning

No Impact/Low Impact Folks Got My Wheels Turning My daughter came up with an alternative fuel concept: Pedal-Powered cars ... , no plastics, no air conditioning, no TV, no toilets… Yes, I know. It’s hard not to stop in one’ ... supplement. Install pedals for each passenger, as well, so that every person can contribute, thus [more...]

Date: 2007-09-28 23:53:56
Blog: Ann Kroeker...

Aussies in Heaven

THE TROUBLE WITH AUSSIES IN HEAVEN       Gabriel went to the Lord and said, "I have to talk to you ... have put out and the Greeks are really upset. > the >       fires and are trying to install air conditioning." [more...]

Date: 2007-09-09 13:52:10
Blog: baria’s blog - Baria’s ...

Fragile

Fragile A heat wave is a bad thing, but 'This is absolutely miserable' - Los Angeles Times ... to your health. People die from lack of air conditioning. Our infrastructure is aging; energy needs ... blinds over your south and west facing windows. If you have money and time, install awnings [more...]

Date: 2007-09-05 06:15:16
Blog: Dove's Eye View...

Why Are Metal Buildings So Popular?

If you ask me why Metal Buildings are so popular, I don’t think I have an answer ... be like an oven inside unless we install air-conditioning. On the other hand, people in the West ... or garage. There are so many uses and I am only taking about using them in residential houses [more...]

Date: 2007-10-10 03:09:26
Blog: She Rambles On...

a letter from the Saudi King (belly dancing included)

BY S Nathan This is a letter that was written by Abdullah, The king of Saudi Arabia to Nuri Al Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq. [ ... . The royal equipment is doing very nice in the air conditioning. Thank you for asking. Why ... traffic then perhaps you can join me in my air conditioned palace for some green tea [more...]

Date: 2007-05-07 12:06:00
Blog: Myspace.com Blogs:mish7...

Dean Kamen's Stirling Solution

photos: green wombat In a world of Stepford executives who never deviate from the corporate party line, ... to install a Stirling heat engine in an electric car made by Norway's Think. (See "Have You Driven a Fjord [more...]

Date: 2007-08-02 17:47:32
Blog: Green Wombat...

Road trip tips for traveling with your dog

For millions of dog owners, family vacations often begin after a trip to the boarding kennel ... or adjust the air conditioning to prevent overheating and/or dehydration. Direct sun might adversely affect dark-colored dogs, particularly in the summer, even when the car is moving and the air is cooler [more...]

Date: 2007-08-30 13:45:59
Blog: Consumer Reports Cars B...

How do you solve a problem like performance?

It’s been an interesting week, various meetings have started me thinking about things outside of the pure mobility realm so I thought I might put ... to check the tyres, fix the air conditioning etc once a year at least. The issues around [more...]

Date: 2007-06-02 00:23:13
Blog: Blogs@Intel · Intel Cor...

Balance Your AC & Heating in Your New Luxury Home

One of the things I have really appreciated about our builder has been all of the great tips that they have shared ... and air conditioning. BTW, don't forget to have the other systems checked as well. In our last house ... you have two systems) after you install your window treatments. When your house is new, you normally [more...]

Date: 2007-08-30 08:50:07
Blog: Luxury Clues...

Death Rates to be Increased With Global Warming

Death Rates to be Increased With Global Warming Thursday, June 28 (Bodyhealthsoul Health News) ... temperatures because there are more people who don't have an air conditioner at home." However ... , with the largest effects seen in cities with milder summers, less air conditioning and denser populations [more...]

Date: 2007-06-28 19:47:08
Blog: Latest Health News|Hea...

Cool Solutions

(Welcome again to Elka, one of the finalists in our Editor search for the upcoming Apartment Therapy Green blog ... my grandmother to install an Energy Star-certified air conditioning unit at her farmhouse in Wisconsin ... and bothered homeowners flip on the air conditioning during the summer, they often create peak power [more...]

Date: 2007-06-22 18:21:02
Blog: Apartment Therapy - Chi...

Complaints: American Home Shield Technician Likewise Unaware Of How He Stay In Business

According to the customer's blog, the following is an actual conversation he had with the American Home Shield (AHS) ... #27240005. My claim for the repair of the air conditioning unit was denied because the technician from Interstate Building & Mechanical Corporation erroneously believed the unit had not been properly [more...]

Date: 2007-09-10 16:36:04
Blog: The Consumerist: Shoppe...

Frugality: Easy Ways To Save On Energy Costs Around The House

With energy costs seeming to go nowhere but up and a growing "green" movement, you gotta love tips that save energy and money ... . 4. Supplement air conditioning with an attic fan. Buy and install an attic fan this summer ... household will save $160 over the course of a year. 3. Tune up your air conditioning [more...]

Date: 2007-07-03 16:21:02
Blog: The Consumerist: Shoppe...

Well, I'm back.

Where was I? (In case you're asking, although you might not be… and yes, I am feeling slightly insecure about my self worth right now.) ... had apparently been struck by lightning.   Total damages?  Our air conditioning unit, our water ... is great but it's not meant for my Sims 2 games (meaning I shouldn't install all the expansions [more...]

Date: 2007-08-30 19:56:01
Blog: DebC...

JOKE OF THE DAY..LEBANESE ARE LEBANESE..

The angel Gabriel came to the Lord and said:"I have to talk to you.We have some Lebanese up here in heaven that are causing problems ... Lebanese have put out the fire and are trying to install air conditioning! !! [more...]

Date: 2007-10-08 12:53:07
Blog: Diana MagaZine...

Frootbat Friday

(Click photo for a larger image) Here I am enjoying the sun on my Gizzy quilt ... °C (80 to 86°F). That may not sound terribly warm, but homes in Germany do not have air conditioning ... , or swing open like a door. The few air conditioning units that are available for purchase have a hose [more...]

Date: 2007-05-25 06:20:53
Blog: Dragonheart's Domain...

Energy Saving Tips For This Summer

Energy Saving Tips This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com). ... harder, increasing energy use. So replace filters on your air conditioner. For homes with central ... Here are some great energy saving tips (courtesy Duke Energy) for keeping our houses cool [more...]

Date: 2007-08-09 18:21:47
Blog: FIRE Finance - A Top Pe...

Useless ride stats for 10/13

Once around the NE Loop on my SJS fixie. The first cold weather ride is always a shocker. It was about 42 when I left my house ... . Perfect! Now I have to cover two air conditioning compressors, clean gutters, rake/blow leaves, install some window treatments at my mom's house, pick up my watch at the watch repair place [more...]

Date: 2007-10-13 13:58:30
Blog: fixedgear...

Tricks to Keep Your House Cool this Summer

cool-home.jpg As the temperature rises, so does the cost of cooling your home, especially if you use an air conditioner ... setting and save on air-conditioning costs. Fans don’t use much energy, but when air is circulating ... devices, and lighting. Be aware from where the heat is comming. Now if you have air conditioning, use [more...]

Date: 2007-06-25 13:29:06
Blog: Sofa Bed, Furniture, Be...

Twin Draft Guard

Twin Draft Guard is a really simple but clever invention ... heat and air conditioning from escaping. It’s easy to install, just slide under door and it fits [more...]

Date: 2007-09-01 08:29:02
Blog: Sofa Bed, Furniture, Be...

Fuzucking Cheaters

Chocolate, Waffles and Cross... Damn has velosnooze gone like worthwhile again? ANOTHER good article ... . should be a quick install. Assuming i can take the plastic [more...]

Date: 2007-09-25 19:10:44
Blog: introspection-section...

Cool Mod, Literally: Area Man Installs Home A/C Unit on Car, Looks Pleased with Himself - Inexplicably

This is Scott Dawson, from Houston, Texas. And these are the pictures of his car after he made a hole in its roof and decided to install a home window A/C unit on top. The reason: to save the $1,200 that were needed to fix its built-in air [more...]

Date: 2007-08-10 11:30:30
Blog: Gizmodo, the Gadget Gui...

Rocks could be novel store for wind energy - earth - 01 October 2007 - New Scientist Environment JUST A SHORT drive west out of Des Moines, Iowa, ... , when wind turbines produce power nobody needs, the electricity will be used to compress air and pump ... , the compressed air will be piped backed to the surface where its energy will be converted [more...]

Date: 2007-10-02 11:04:06
Blog: GoodShit...

Ways of seeing

What would I say to the world if the BBC made me a "television essayist" and gave me a series? ... traffic underground, send the businessmen to Birmingham and Hong Kong, install air conditioning everywhere, rip up the grey fitted carpet and install wood floors, change all the food and chefs, halve [more...]

Date: 2007-06-21 03:23:46
Blog: Click opera...

10 Hot Products to Keep Your Pets Cool

PETCool Therm-ASSURE Pets love to be outdoors in any season, but summers are especially dangerous times for them ... and releases fresh water from the faucet. Again, despite the name "WaterDog," this item is perfect for cats [more...]

Date: 2007-07-31 01:01:18
Blog: Inventor Spot | Best In...

Make your house free from allergy - I

Few tips as below that I learnt from internet on how to make our house free from any allergies. It is worth to have a read on them. *Keep windows closed and use air conditioning if you're allergic to pollen. Don't use fans since they can stir up dust. *Filter the air. Cover air conditioning vents with cheesecloth to filter [more...]

Date: 2007-06-02 17:15:39
Blog: Lyon & Wien...

Give…me….air.

Give…me….air. Category Daily life | 5 Comments » I am completely confident that I was born in the correct era. I never would have survived living in a log cabin, in Texas, with no central air conditioning ... him that all air conditioning repair men from Texas go to Heaven, and thanked him no less than 30 times [more...]

Date: 2007-05-21 21:35:42
Blog: and baby makes 6! | Ju...

TT#9: conserving energy

here Let me just start by saying it has been soooo incredibly flippin' hot, muggy, and humid here lately! Thank you Maryland! ... that has to vent out the window. (I miss having central air!) I know these are not energy saving ... conditioners : Check and clean the air conditioner's filter once a month; make sure the air conditioning [more...]

Date: 2007-08-30 12:48:40
Blog: Tales From a Former Mic...

Green Ways to Cool Down

2007.07.housecool.jpg The smart hippies over at Inhabitat point us to SolCool’s Millennia air-conditioner, ... , the "SolCool system has the same output capacity to a two ton air conditioning system but uses 85% less energy than equivalent high efficiency air conditioners.." There are also spendy solar panels and jet pack [more...]

Date: 2007-07-17 21:50:10
Blog: Curbed LA : The Los Ang...

And It Continues…

And It Continues… Wednesday, August 29th in Craptastic | 16 comments It’s Wednesday. 8:20am. I. Am. Cranky ... m use to the fan running or the air conditioning humming softly. Nothing. I finally fall asleep around ... a post, right in the middle while I was trying SO hard to get the software for my printer to install [more...]

Date: 2007-08-29 12:35:49
Blog: My Little Corner of Li...

PC Upgrade?

I am considering purchasing a new PC for the office. One problem; said purchase will require I install 1,500 tons of air conditioning on the roof, potentially collapsing said roof. Shown here is my IT consultant, installing the memory module [more...]

Date: 2007-09-27 22:51:22
Blog: Thy Grace is Sufficient...

Renewed energy in a climate of change

The SMH has a look at Howard's backflip on emission targets (strictly a cosmetic one as he thinks nuclear power and "clean" coal count as clean sources of energy) in "renewed energy in a climate of change". JOHN HOWARD has reversed his refusal to promote renewable energy as a key source of electricity, announcing a "clean energy target" [more...]

Date: 2007-09-24 13:54:00
Blog: Peak Energy...

The End Of Cheap Oil

Past Peak points to an AP article predicting $100 Oil by End of '08. The chief economist at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce says we should expect $100 a barrel oil by the end of next year, and it's likely to be three-digit prices from then on out. AP (via John Robb) [more...]

Date: 2007-10-07 03:18:00
Blog: Peak Energy...

KB FIRE

KB Fire is one of the first DVD's to address the conditioning of someone who actually works for a living,.. a Fireman ... so the subject of conditioning for this lifestyle is something I am familiar with. Tom is clear ... that will not let you down when the difference can be life for death. The subject matter presented could install [more...]

Date: 2007-09-07 00:24:52
Blog: Physical Strategies...

Where Is Rev. Al?

What About Our Daughters has a series of posts on a truly horrific story ... you these folks can't even install light bulbs in the street lamps of Dunbar Village, the residents live in Florida without air conditioning despite air conditioners being donated and the Police Chief [more...]

Date: 2007-09-24 14:03:48
Blog: Power and Control...

Nature First ® by ComEd

For those of you readers in the Chicago area, you may have recently received a small mailer from the good folks at ComEd ... First®, which is part of their C.A.R.E. initiative. Nature First is an air conditioning cycling ... . By letting ComEd install a control switch on the side of your home or directly on the air conditioner's [more...]

Date: 2007-10-05 16:33:11
Blog: PrairieMod...

Collect and use grey water.

Georgia is in the midst of an historic drought and almost all outdoor water use has been banned ... from your air conditioning unit. * Install collection equipment to harvest the water. Clearly grey [more...]

Date: 2007-10-08 19:20:12
Blog: So what can I do?...

So, What Did YOU Do Yesterday?

I spent most of Monday under my son's new (old) car, a 1993 Jeep Cherokee ... of looks but no air conditioning. He loves that car (and still has it) but wanted a "crapper ... had to take off early and the brake lines still needed to be bled to remove the air in the lines before [more...]

Date: 2007-09-25 13:21:26
Blog: Stitches and Seams...

Stuff n Fluff

Buddy made it home safe from 2 weeks away at camp. I won't tell you about how I cried when I finally hugged him, or about the touching reunion whereby Bear ran across a field with her long dark hair blowing out behind her to leap into Buddy's arms whereby he picked her up and swung her in a circle and then hugged her [more...]

Date: 2007-07-19 02:19:40
Blog: Straddling the Line...

Better Late Than Hot

I remember sweating it out, literally, in classrooms without air conditioning when I was a student. I didn’t enjoy air conditioning in school until I went away to college. Well, OK, there was 4th ... add anything to the experience; believe me I remember. But it would cost $64 million to provide air [more...]

Date: 2007-09-04 12:56:04
Blog: The Eleventh Hour...

Build It and They Will Be Cooled

It would cost less to build an entirely new high school (with tennis courts!) on Springfield’s west side than it would be to install air conditioning in all of the school ... t know anything about the a/c business. Of course the whole air conditioning debate is about to end [more...]

Date: 2007-09-12 12:45:18
Blog: The Eleventh Hour...

Smog in September

talk talk talk: The smog yesterday was awful. It wasn't just its texture and taste, it was the immediate and unpleasant effect on my lungs ... . So smog days means a drop in income. Air conditioning costs bucks. It costs bucks to buy, install ... of effective action, they seem uncaring of the effect smoggy air has on the lives of a whole group [more...]

Date: 2007-09-07 16:11:16
Blog: Metroblogging Toronto...

Permanent Link to Van Rack

Van Rack Posted by admin at 9:21 am. Filed under: Product Hub ‘s friend who running an air conditioning servicing business, was intend to get a van rack install in his van so that he can put the ladder on it without using ... up the space inside the van and stock up with more air conditioner unit and earn more! No Comments • [more...]

Date: 2007-06-03 12:17:39
Blog: Travelogue...

Thoughts about the Metro while on the Metro

Ive travelled on nearly every major rail transit system in Western, Central and parts of Eastern Europe ... stations, and often, trains, are without air conditioning. The Metro is a reflection of the larger ... of the morning Express is not a suitable substitute for air conditioning in Metro stations or Metro [more...]

Date: 2007-09-11 05:24:18
Blog: a word, forgotten ...

Air Conditioning Gets Green in California

Remember when you were a kid and nothing could cool you down on a hot summer day like a frozen popsicle? ... energy systems: ice-based air conditioning. California/Colorado-based Ice Energy has been developing ... technologies such as Ice Energy’s Ice Bear hybrid air conditioning system, the “Shift and Save” [more...]

Date: 2007-10-12 17:00:13
Blog: Victoria E :: Writer, M...

What Other Black Bloggers Are Saying About the West Virginia Torture Case.... Dunbar Village Update...and Go Chill Out In Front of Debra Lee's House

Dunbar Village Updates I have some Dunbar Village updates (because if we don't do it, nobody else will.) ... . Now mind you these folks can't even install light bulbs in the street lamps of Dunbar Village, the residents live in Florida without air conditioning despite air conditioners being donated and the Police [more...]

Date: 2007-09-12 14:59:06
Blog: What About Our Daughter...

All About New Home - 1

All About New Home - 1 » by SYH in: New Home Project I love to stay at my mother home. However I hate the hot temperature in the house ... me that usually happen at terrace house. So, I plan to install Auto air conditioning in my new home. I just can’t stand for hot temperature. I think this will cost me a lot for the installation fees [more...]

Date: 2007-07-01 22:41:07
Blog: Women Mumbles — My Work...

Securing The Server Room

“Hey, you’re in IT, right,” a frantic fellow in a maintenance jumpsuit asked, barging right into G.R.G.’s cramped little office. G.R.G ... . First 86°F, then 93°F, then 97°F, and – just then – 103°F. He figured that the dedicated air conditioning unit had died. Normally, that wouldn’t be a problem, but he had no way to get in to fix [more...]

Date: 2007-04-25 18:45:00
Blog: Worse Than Failure: Cu...

The Grid Impacts of Net Metering

Net metering describes the requirement that an electric utility buy electricity from any of its customers that generate their own electricity ( ... usually produce power on hot, sunny afternoons when peak load is driven by air conditioning, solar ... that a homeowner, call him Sol, wants to install a solar photovoltaic (PV) system on his roof and sell [more...]

Date: 2007-09-09 21:39:18
Blog: Alternative Energy Stoc...

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