What is Bio Diesel?
The folks over at Utah Bio Diesel Supply have put up three videos that answer that questions.
Enjoy and let us or them, http://www.utahbiodieselsupply.com/ , know what you think.
What Is Biodiesel? Straight Vegetable Oil Versus Biodiesel.
The Chemisty of Biodiesel (Part 1)
The Chemisty of Biodiesel (Part 2)
Friday, February 29, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Green Web Hosting
If you have a web hosting company look no further, because there is more that you can do. What you ask, well we have found a company that provides green web hosting! Well the power used to support their servers are eco friendly and provided by the wind and the sun. Check out this web hosting company, Think Host.
Company Mission:
"We strive to be a constantly evolving and improving socially responsible company, providing the very best green web hosting services and dedicated to playing our part in making this world a better place for all."
Check them out, support green companies and start to make our world a better place. As all of us start to make choices, real choices to go green our world will become a better place.
Company Mission:
"We strive to be a constantly evolving and improving socially responsible company, providing the very best green web hosting services and dedicated to playing our part in making this world a better place for all."
Check them out, support green companies and start to make our world a better place. As all of us start to make choices, real choices to go green our world will become a better place.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Vegetable Car
Get your diesel car converted into a bio diesel or vegatable oil conversions. You can visit a new company that will handle this conversion for your car, LoveCraft Biofuels. They will add a small amount of stuff into your engine to complete the conversion. You can do it for about $500. Check it out.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
WVO (Waste Vegetable Oil) Filling Stations
I would like to compile a nation wide list of all of the waste vegetable oil (WVO) filling stations. I've looked around a couple of times and cannot find a good resource. Maybe they don't exist yet. Maybe I need to convert a car to WVO and get immersed in the culture. Most of the postings I have found so far are for people who have set up their own stations and would like to share with others. Help me out by posting a comment or two if you know of any stations or your friends garage (if they are looking to share).
I was just kidding about buying a car by the way. I keep hoofing it on my bipedal powerhouse. That is until someone tells me that wvo trumps pizza power.
I was just kidding about buying a car by the way. I keep hoofing it on my bipedal powerhouse. That is until someone tells me that wvo trumps pizza power.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
What is LEED Certification?
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and falls under the the eye of the United States Green Building Council, http://www.usgbc.org . In very simple terms, your building can get a LEED points for having things that help and or reduce the impact your building has on the environment. For example if you build your new home with a Rain Water Harvesting system, you can get up to 4 points for just that component, according to the USGBC's 114 page LEED for Home pdf. This type of system falls under the larger Water Efficiency category and that WE category needs an over all score of at least 3 to count for anything. So, put in a great rain water harvesting system and you're on your way to the minimum 45 points need to just be certified. Build your home in a a LEED ND, Neighborhood Development, and pick up to 10 easy points just for keeping up with the Jones.
It's quite a complete and complicated system and is different for all types of buildings, both new and old. New Construction, Existing Buildings, Commercial Interiors, Core & Shell, Schools, Retail, Health care, Homes, and Neighborhood Development all have different criteria and scoring systems.
Once you get your building scored, it will then fall into a category of Certified, Silver, Gold, Platinum or other. Usually you will see buildings listed as something like LEED EB Gold. Which just means that it was certified under the Existing Building criteria as LEED Gold. Not to bad if you ask me. One great story here in Oakland is through StopWaste.org. You can read their story here, http://www.stopwaste.org/docs/1532webster.pdf.
Who set the standards? As part of the USGBC committees were formed to create the standards and criteria, for a complete list of committees see, http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1750
It's quite a complete and complicated system and is different for all types of buildings, both new and old. New Construction, Existing Buildings, Commercial Interiors, Core & Shell, Schools, Retail, Health care, Homes, and Neighborhood Development all have different criteria and scoring systems.
Once you get your building scored, it will then fall into a category of Certified, Silver, Gold, Platinum or other. Usually you will see buildings listed as something like LEED EB Gold. Which just means that it was certified under the Existing Building criteria as LEED Gold. Not to bad if you ask me. One great story here in Oakland is through StopWaste.org. You can read their story here, http://www.stopwaste.org/docs/1532webster.pdf.
Who set the standards? As part of the USGBC committees were formed to create the standards and criteria, for a complete list of committees see, http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1750
Monday, February 4, 2008
Vote! Super Tuesday February 5th, 2008
Get out and vote. Your vote does count and does make a difference. One only needs to look at a recent presidential general election to see how true that really is. I do not care if you're a liberal or conservative, republican or democrat or libertarian or independent, get out and vote. I know I missed the boat on some of the states, but for us here in California, we are taking part in Super Tuesday the 5th of February.
Do I think we should have moved our primary date up? Heck no, wast of money and resources.
Do I think that you should only vote for "Green" contenders or measures? Nope.
Vote what you feel and what you think is right on the whole. Green is needed to help save things and get this planet back on track but other things such as education, in my humble opinion, are just as important. If hypothetically one candidate wanted to close down polluting companies and one candidate wanted to double teacher salaries and schools, then I would have a tough choice.
Do I think we should have moved our primary date up? Heck no, wast of money and resources.
Do I think that you should only vote for "Green" contenders or measures? Nope.
Vote what you feel and what you think is right on the whole. Green is needed to help save things and get this planet back on track but other things such as education, in my humble opinion, are just as important. If hypothetically one candidate wanted to close down polluting companies and one candidate wanted to double teacher salaries and schools, then I would have a tough choice.
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