LEED-H Point – Waste Management

One of the points we are actively involved in, but won’t know the true result to the very end, is our waste management program for the house. We just received our first bill from Waste Management and with it our first “weight slip” from Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation.
The average 2,000 sq. ft. home generates [...]

Sustainability Works: The Intuitive Designs of Carl Mahaney

“So many of the buildings we occupy are not terribly thoughtful,” laments architect Carl Mahaney. “That has always intuitively felt wrong to me.” Thankfully, Mahaney is righting those wrongs through his firm Measured Works Architecture.
With a sensitivity to craft and detail, Mahaney has designed sustainable architecture projects for more than a decade. After receiving a Bachelor [...]

Greener Gadgets Design Competition

At this year’s Greener Gadget Conference, taking place in NYC on February 27th, Greener Gadgets has once again partnered with Core77 to generate outstanding design innovations for greener electronics. The design competition challenges established design firms, emerging designers, and design students to come up with new and innovative solutions to address the issues of energy, [...]

Go Go Gadget Green

I love the energy efficient turn that technology has taken. I have found so many cool gadgets that monitor energy usage or help decrease energy usage and I want all of them. I found the Home Joule on ecogeek.com. It’s the energy efficient baby of ConsumerPowerline and Ambient Devices. I will let their clever advertisement [...]

Abby’s Blog: Kids Helping the Earth 11

While opening Christmas presents Abby decided we had to keep every scrap of wrapping paper (recycled paper) because she wanted to use it for her craft projects. She turns to me and says, “I want to keep this paper to make cards because it is good for the earth, okay mom? Do you think Santa recycles [...]