Heat Pump Water Heater
As part of our upgrades to the heating system in our house, including replacing the gas furnace with an air source heat pump system that […]
Environment
Heat Pump Heating
Most houses here in suburban California are built with natural gas forced air heating. If you have air conditioning, which was an option we did […]
Reuse & Repair
A Gizmodo article I saw today about the bad things that people include in their recycling containers, putting the employees at risk, jamming up the […]
Crisis: Transportation
This is the part everybody knows about already because we can see it, but at the same time it is also one of the hardest […]
Going Meatless
Choosing renewable energy, driving a electric vehicle, reducing single use plastics, composting & recycling are all obvious ways of helping the environment, and for many […]
Limit to 1.5℃
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report describing how we can, as a planet, reach the goal of no more than […]
Greener Keurig Coffee
The Keurig coffee machines made making a cup of coffee much more convenient, especially in an office environment where people may have different tastes so […]
Batteries: Recharge & Reuse
Not for laptops, phones, tablets and all the other gadgets we own with lithium-ion rechargeable batteries embedded in them; we’re talking about all those other […]
LimeBike Scooters in the Wild
In an earlier post here talking about alternative commute options we mentioned the LimeBike electric scooters. Today, in San Francisco, we found several of them […]